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by Destry Wion  ::  published 24 December 04    

In my previous post, I talked about this wonderful new content puplishing system called Textpattern (new to me anyway), and how it currently suffers from a lack of official documentation for the new user concerning how to setup, use, and customize it. Well despite the lack of documentation, I have since decided to convert my site from WordPress to Textpattern. I really like the backend administration features Textpattern provides; and there’s something else about Textpattern too, it just has this sleekness to it that is irresistable. It will be fun to get better acquainted with Textpattern.

In response to the lack of official documentation, I launched a User Manual initiative in the Textpattern Forum with the hopes of encouraging a community effort to create an official user manual for Textpattern. It is not the first user manual effort that has been tried with the community, but with a little time and dedication it might be the first one that succeeds.

The manual has been given a name, TextBook, and aims to be a centralized Web manual with logical flow of concepts and consistency in style, tone, and presentation.

Most significantly, the TextBook effort has been endorsed “to the hiltâ€? by Dean Allen, who graciously provided a home for the new TextBook wiki at it’s current location. It’s really quite an interesting activity, and my first time at working in a wiki environment. I think we have really put things into place rather expediently, and in a relatively organized fashion.

Because of my site conversion to Textpattern, my contributions to the TextBook effort, and my own documentation efforts for clients whos sites I’m also using Textpattern for – you can find traces of me in TextBook or in the Textpattern Forum on a fairly regular basis.

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