If you are a Designer & MAC user & ExpressionEngine fan & indie music lover, this article is for yu.

Portland is a town in Oregon (USA) and Graz a smaller city in Austria. How do come people from those cities together on the internet? Often through music. Tim Germer and friends from Portlans drive the podcast site northwestnoise.com presenting indie music from the northwest of the States. Since two years they regularly publish interviews, articles and podcasts of indipendent musicians. Lately the guys went online with nationalnoisemedia.com. A site podcasts from all over the places shall be published. nationalnoisemedia.com was designed by Wolfgang Bartelme who again is a highly recommended Austrian webdesigner. He is a bit the Austrian “Jon Hicks”. His site runs on EE. Currently Wolfgang publishes a series of EE articles.

So, if you are a Designer & MAC user & ExpressionEngine fan & indie music lover, check out those sites!

If you seek some OS CMS software and consider using Wordpress because you have heard so much of WP(Wordpress) read through 2 articles just published by Ang Zhuu Ming on the blogHelper blog:

• 5 Reasons to Use WordPress as CMS

• 5 Reasons Not to Use WordPress as CMS

Both articles belong to Ang Zhuu Ming´s current WP series:

1 Fundamental Theory

• What is “Using WordPress as CMS”?
• 5 Reasons to Use WordPress as CMS (see link above)

2 Fundamental Technical Stuff

• How to Put Up a Custom Front Page in WordPress
• Advanced Customization of WordPress Permalink Structure

3 All-in-One Guides

• How to Use WordPress for a Portfolio Site – Part 1

Not to promote Textpattern i rather advice clients not o use WP as a CMS but TXP or some other real CMS like Drupal. With TXP you have sections which make it deadeasy to set up a CMS assigning f. e. static content.

All software have their pros and cons. Though WP is – no question – a great blogging app; it is by nature no CMS. Why go through all the hassle with searching for the right plugins, hacking the backend and reading through pages of tutorials? Rather save your time and dedicate to learning a solid CMS.

Links

Textpattern versus Wordpress

If you don’t already follow mashable, you should, that is if you are interested in what the market is doing with “web 2” stuff.
One of the latest feeds from Mashable caught my interest. As many of you know, MySpace has become HUGE over the last couple of years, and it can be expected that because the vast majority of its users are not coders or designers, while that same user group places a high value on aesthetic and appearance. Therefore the need for schwanky layouts hits the market.
There has been a lot of talk about layouts, themes, and templates for Textpattern, and its a big deal over at Wordpress as well. People want their blogs to look good. This article over at Mashable describes the need and the supply well, and how designers are cashing in on the the world’s biggest social network .

Our 100th blog on TXP Blogmap is Jonas Forsberg gorgious textpatterndriven photoblog himynameisjonas.net. Jonas publishes interesting photos like this one regularly. His cameras: Canon 350d and a Nikon f4 (lenses: sigma 10-20, canon 50, cosina 19-35).

We are proud having by now collected a 100 fine blogs from all over the world on the Blogmap. Everyone is worth a visit.

If you like to subscribe to the TXP Blogmap please donate 1-3 $/Euros. Find a PayPal button on the register site.

John Oxton and friends just launched bitesizestandards.com, a very nice TXP driven site offering concise web development tutorials, tips and tricks. Written by designers and developers who are passionate about web standards. This baby is still very young so you will not find comprehensive tuts yet.

TXP Mag wishes the Bit Size Standard Team good luck and congrats on a well done website.

Robin Hamman, author or the highly to recommend blog cybersoc.com summerized 11 points people new to blogging should know when starting:

1. Sort out your domain name
2. Sign up to a third party RSS service, such as feedburner
3. Join technorati and claim your blog
4. Host your images using another service, for example flickr
5. Consider signing up to sites like blogburst which syndicate your content to news and media websites
6. Make sure you add your URL to Google
7. Add some sites with similar content to yours to your typepad list
8. Sign up for, and start using, del.icio.us and publish the links you collect there
9. Post comments on other blogs and leave your URL there
10. When you first set up your blog, really put some thought into the categories you’re going to use
11. use Pingomatic

Read Robins full article or get his podcast.

Tobias Frére-Jones designed the font Interstate back in 1993. Today the Interstate is widely spread and often used for internetdesigns.

Interstate is based on the signage alphabets of our [USA] Federal Highway Administration, letterforms absorbed at a glance everywhere we drive. Interstate provides a real edge in swift communication. (Font Bureau)

Interstate consist of 40 styles. Who can not afford buying it or only uses the font once can use its clone Blue Highway by canadian type designer Ray Larabie. 4 styles are available.
“Download it from Typemotion.de.
Please note: Blue Highway needs a good kerning.

TXP Mag is proud to present the first official TXP Blogmap. A big Thank you to Bastian Sackermann for programming and Peter Moulding for editing our help files as well as a big Thank You to our beta-testers.

If you run a textpattern based blog and like to register, please

“Sex sells,??? said Paul Scrivens. This beeing said, Paul Scrivens and Sam Sugar just started SexNotWork – the world’s first sex-blog network. We do not doubt it will be a success though Paul S. already gained experiences in networking by beeing co-founder and CEO of 9rules. And yes, sex sells. Or shouldn´t we better say: porn sells?

However, 9rules recent growth was pretty fast. From 15 to 18 members last year some 150 blogs joined in the past months. Now 9rules just started a storm in the blogworld by kicking out