I love Textpattern!

It's official, I've now found my favorite content management system. I've always kept my eyes out for good content management systems for future and current web sites that I am working on.

With the recent redesign of my Civil War Battles site (www.civil-war-battles.com), I decided to give Textpattern a shot. Let me tell you, once I had the idea of sections and categories down, it was a breeze to get the site back up and going.

Things I like about Textpattern are:

• Simplicity of adding multiple page templates - it's as simple as creating a new template in the Pages tab and creating a new section. Simple.
• Multiple categories for articles, designation of a specific section, and the ability to add custom fields to an article and use those fields when displaying articles or lists of articles (See www.civil-war-battles.com/battles).
• The ability to customize the way Textpattern displays individual articles. For example, I created a custom display form for my book reviews that automatically inserts an Amazon affiliate link to buy the book being reviewed based on the ASIN number I've stored in one of the custom fields.

To find out more about Textpattern, head over to www.textpattern.org.

Good luck and good designing!