Steffan Williams follows up from Jon Hicks’ tutorial on using files for page templates in Textpattern with his own tutorial which extends the practice to pages and forms.

Jon Hicks comes up with a very useful method to enable editing of your page templates in your text editor.

How to vary the formatting for the first page of your article list results from the other pages.

Some of the various methods for displaying content differently within the same section.

How to use Google Analytics with Textpattern.

Create a drop down navigation menu using Textpattern tags.

In this example we shall create a navigation menu that will be automatically updated if you add a new section or category.

A simple method for creating an easily updatable navigation menu, with an active CSS class applied.

How to create and use email contact forms on your site using ZCR.

Easy way to use Google AdSense code in your site.

How to create header and footers for your site, with the use of TXP forms and the output_form tag.