ferrydust

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Thank you thank you

Definite thanks due to the people who helped me get this site up and running right, and who also gave me good company through the process. Thank you especially to Rob, and to Andrew, Dean and the patient people behind Textdrive, and all the wonderful peoples in the Textpattern forums.

Known issues

Please pardon the dust. This site is still undergoing construction in some areas, and I’m still looking for a few bugfixes in others..

I’m told by a few people that this site (specifically the lavendar box) is now rendering correctly in Safari. That’s wonderful news.. but if you come across it that it isn’t, please let me know.. even though I’m really not sure how I would fix that at this point. But advice is welcome.
Also a couple small but odd shiftings occur around the page upon various hoverings. I don’t know what to do about those anymore.

I’m keeping a very rough to do list.

Images

The illustrations on this site are homegrown, basically all extracted and inspired from a single digital photograph taken in Kyoto, that wasn’t of anything extraordinary to begin with, and wasn’t lavendar at all. It has since been played with in Adobe Photoshop, and my first real adventure with Illustrator was to digitally adapt my signature swirlies that have previously only been doodled on paper. There’s been some interest in these swirlies in the past and I’m considering posting a bit more about them in the future.

I’m not usually a pink person, but i’ve become quite attached to the lavendar of ferrydust (site formerly known as ‘rasasayang’), and can’t seem to bring myself to discard it for the grey and white site plan i had initially conceptualized for ferrydust. All in good time.

Weapons of choice

• Toshiba Satellite 5205-s703 M40 (running WinXP, for better or for worse)
• Textpattern for all content management.
• Textdrive hosting at server One
• Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
• Opera webbrowser. Preference moved to Firefox for a while, but I’ve pretty firmly returned to Opera, as it is considerably lighter in general (can open two dozen tabs on it without feeling much weight.. not as true with Firefox..), but for whatever reason I have found Firefox to be especially slow on my computer — not as true on other computers.. so it may not be Firefox’s fault at all. But that’s so. I also keep Maxthon around for IE-necessary uses.
• Editplus text editor, but when composing sites, I tend to have at least two windows of Opera open, two windows of Editplus, and one of Crimson Editor or Ultraedit (all with several tabs open).
• Coreftp(lite) for all server interactions.

Previous incarnations:

One day I’ll properly put a little showcase together for personal tribute to past endeavorment…
Meanwhile, the brief history is:

• Omniali ~ 1999
• Aim profile site ~1999-2001
• Xanga ~2001?
• Rasasayang ~2000?
• Ferrydust 1 — fall 2004
• Ferrydust v2 — spring 2005

Scripts and external integrations:

• Div hiding :: This one is being used for hiding/showing the lavendar block and the comments form on article pages.
• Switch Content Script :: This one is used for the collapsible menus on site.
• IE7 :: Who knew there was a way to teach old IE new tricks? This is a very cool application.
• Shoutbox :: That’s the guestbox over on the right.

Textpattern plugins

Plugins make my world go round. The following Textpattern plugins employed on this site are all available at Textpattern Resources.

1) ajw_clean_feed 0.2 by Andrew Waer

Extends Atom & RSS functionality to allow for /clean/feed/urls

2) ajw_comments_feed 0.6 by Andrew Waer

Extends RSS & Atom to allow for comments feeds.

3) ako_nav 0.2 by Adrian Kostrubiak

This plugin produces a dynamic navigation bar based on a few specified attributes.

4) anc_hide 1.0 by Andy Chase

Allows you to comment out areas of a page or form opaquely; using the anc_comment tag instead of HTML comments around a block of code will hide it from the rendered output.

5) asv_amazon 2.1 by Amit Varia

Add Amazon items to your TXP article

6) asv_message 1.0 by Amit Varia

Strip tags and limit words

7) asv_random_article 0.9.1 by Amit Varia

Grab a random article

8) asv_recent_comments 1.8 by Amit Varia

Extends on the functionality of txp:recent_comments

9) asy_category_tags 0.7 by Sencer Yurdaguel

1) Article-Form-Tag: Shows Categories, if they are set.
2) Page-Tag: Show all categories of section that have articles in them (list)
3) Page-Tag: Show all categories of section that have articles in them (popup)

10) asy_showdate 0.3 by Sencer Yurdaguel

Only to be used in articles. This will output a custom-defined Date; In Lists, this will return nothing if the outputted date is the same as from the last article.

11) Beginning 0.6 by See Help

Automatic Excerpt Generation

12) bsl_audioscrobbler 0.9 by Ruairi Mc Comb

Displays a list of last played songs from your Audioscrobbler account

13) chh_article_custom 0.41 by Coke Harrington

A feature-rich replacement for both txp:article and txp:article_custom.

14) chh_article_lib 1.04 by Coke Harrington

Function library for article list plugins.

15) chh_related_articles 0.41 by Coke Harrington

An enhanced replacement for txp:related_articles.

16) cnj_excerpt_logic 0.1 by Caleb Jaffa

This plugin lets you test if there is anything in the excerpt or not.

17) dca_pop 0.1 by Dean Allen

Creates sized popup windows for images stored in Textpattern

18) dru_chatometer 0.1 by Drew McLellan

Displays a list of the most commented-upon articles.

19) etz_hilite 0.1a by Nikolaos Genimakis

Highlights search terms inside your pages

20) gbl_blog_stats 1.0b by Gordon Bergling

Simple Weblog Statistics

21) gho_comments_invite 0.2 by GrauMeister

configurable link for invitation to comment

22) glx_gravatar 0.1 by Johan Nilsson

Gravatar

23) glx_if 0.6.4 by Johan Nilsson

Some conditional tags

24) glx_image 0.7 by Johan Nilsson

Helps you control how to display a image element

25) jad_oldposted 0.1 by Joel Dueck

Allows you to use date() formats (a la pre 1.0rc3).

26) kgr_safe_excerpt 0.2 by Kurt Raschke

Generates an excerpt based on the body text with tags removed, or the excerpt, if it exists

27) lastfm_tagcloud 0.3 by Fran Garcia

The plugin shows a typical tagcloud with the last songs listened at last.fm by one user

28) mdm_if_category 0.4 by Matthew D Moss

Passes content conditional on category.

29) mdn_count 1.4 by Mark Norton

Provides a count of the number of live articles by section or category, or both.

30) mdn_if_custom 1.1 by Mark Norton

Empty, notempty, equal, and notequal conditionals for custom fields. Includes "else" clauses.

31) mdn_if_section 2.1 by Mark Norton

This tag permits conditional text in a page template based on section context and selection.

32) mem_article_count 0.1 by Michael Manfre

Returns the article count for the number of articles in a specific section and/or a category.

33) mem_glinklist 0.8.1 by Michael Manfre

Functions the same as txp_linklist, except groups all links under their category heading. This plugin supports breadcrumb style category headings.

34) mic_permlink 0.3 by Michele Campeotto

Render custom permalinks

35) mrw_spamkeywords_urlcount 0.1 by Brian Warren

Mr. Warren's attempt to catch some spam.

36) mrz_lastsitemod 0.1 by Mario Parris

Shows when the site was last modified.

37) nhn_livecommentpreview 0.5 beta by Nils Hörrmann

live comment preview (made for 4.0.3)

38) ob1_googlenav 2.0 by Henrik Jönsson

Creates a Google inspired page navigation.

39) ob1_if_section 0.2 by Henrik Jönsson

Parses contents if the section set is the one selected.

40) ob1_modified 0.51 by Henrik Jönsson

Outputs when the article was last modified or the author who modified it.

41) ptv_if 0.3b by Petur Valdimarsson

A general purpose conditional statement

42) rei_show_custom 0.4 by Reinier Ladan

Plugin to show a custom field.

43) rss_admin_show_adv_opts 0.3 by Rob Sable

Automatically expand article advanced options.

44) rss_article_edit 0.1 by Rob Sable

Add edit article links to your public site.

45) rss_auto_excerpt 0.5 by Rob Sable

Automatic article excerpts

46) rss_calendar 0.1 by Rob Sable

Monthly calendar linked to date based archives.

47) rss_googlemap_stats 0.2 by Rob Sable

Display your recent visitors on a Google Map.

48) rss_linkcat_list 0.1 by Rob Sable

Displays link categories with counts.

49) rss_live_archive 0.5 by Rob Sable

Live archives.

50) rss_live_search 0.2 by Rob Sable

Live search.

51) rss_posted 0.1 by Rob Sable

Article posted date linked to date based archives.

52) rss_suparchive 0.18 by Rob Sable

Article listings by date or by category/section. Archive menu by month or year with totals

53) rss_unlimited_categories 0.5 by Rob Sable

Enable unlimited categories (tags) per article.

54) rsx_plugins_list 1.0 by Ramanan Sivaranjan

Display a list of plugins currently installed.

55) rsx_word_count, rsx_total_word_count 1.1 by Ramanan Sivaranjan

Word count tags.

56) rvm_css 0.3 by Ruud van Melick

Static CSS caching

57) sgb_url_handler 0.1.5 by sgb

support all url variations at the same time

58) swf_if_empty 0.31 by Scott

Plugin will conditionally display elements if a field does or does not contain data

59) tcm_if 0.1 by Tom MacWright

Better ifs.

60) tru_tags 3.0 by Nathan Arthur

Article tagging

61) upm_savenew 0.3.1 by Mary

Adds a "Save New" button to the write tab.

62) upm_textile 0.1 by Mary

Parse any text with Textile

63) vdh_flickr 0.8.11 by Ralph von der Heyden

Shows your flickr.com pictures in TextPattern.

64) wet_recent_comments 0.4 by Robert Wetzlmayr

Lists recent comments, both per article and sitewide.

65) wet_slimpattern 0.3 by Robert Wetzlmayr

Integrates SlimStat or Mint logging into Textpattern.

66) zem_article_info 0.1 by Threshold State

Word count and article link for article edit pages

67) zem_ir 0.5 by Threshold State

CSS/PNG image replacement plugin

68) zem_link 0.3 by zem

Create article plinks and absolute href links

Other Textpattern-ness

• Live Textile-formatted Comment Preview

• Hiding and customizing the comments form and system