I don’t know why I only looked at Textpattern now but it surely looks nice for smaller sites that I set up for friends. I used to do everything with TYPO3 but had a hard time trimming it down for simple use cases with only a couple of pages and no dynamic stuff. Textpattern has a very intuitive templating system and comes with all the categorization and syndication features you might want for a start. The admin interface is ugly but so is TYPO3’s. And Textile is better than HTMLArea although not as cool as Markdown. I’ll give TXP a try for the next project.

While looking for a non-obstrusive, degradable, minimal and clean solution for tabbed settings dialogues (think Firefox settings or OS X) in Javascript, I stumbled over Tabber which seems just too good to be true. It does all of the above and you only have to write semantically correct markup (which we should use anyway) and the rest is magic.

I’m working on a prototype for the TYPO3 install tool and this makes writing the GUI part a breeze. Definitely a keeper for the whole TYPO3 BE overhaul that’s long overdue.