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This is Textgarden.org, a central repository of downloadable Textpattern themes both for “front of site” and administration.

Contributors

Dean Allen – original creator of Textpattern and Textile
Sivert Nielson aka Sivni – who originally created Textgarden
Stuart Butcher aka thebombsite – who is currently managing Textgarden
All the theme creators!
All the plugin writers!
All the testers!

About setting it up

The site was originally designed and implemented by Sivert Nielson (Sivni) back in the first half of 2005 but, due to his untimely death, Dean passed the management of the site over to Stuart Butcher (thebombsite) who still runs it.

The domain name comes from this thread , first coined by kennethlove666 and eagerly set up by Dean Allen. Hosting was originally supplied by Dean and Textdrive but is now donated by Joyent

The current design is a direct reflection of the newly re-designed main Textpattern site with some minor modifications to suit the Textgarden content.

That design is by Matthew Smith (aka squaredeye)
XHTML and CSS plus a little javascript coding by Stuart Butcher (aka thebombsite)
Main javascript and jquery coding by Patrick Woods (aka hakjoon)
Logo design by Philipp Schilling (aka belipe)
Content control and additions by Stef Dawson (aka Bloke)
Overall management (including the use of whips, thumbscrews and bribes of all descriptions) by Robert Wetzlmayr (aka wet).
Last but not least, all those forum members who contributed their time and wisdom to the various forum threads on the subject.

That design was modified to cater for the content here on Textgarden by Stuart Butcher (aka thebombsite)
Textgarden Logo design by Philipp Schilling (aka belipe)

Plugins

Front of site

glx_gravatar
ob1_googlenav
upm_date_archive
upm_file
zem_contact_lang
zem_contact_reborn

Admin side

ied_plugin_composer
rah_comment_spam
rah_sitemap
rss_admin_db_manager
rvm_css
rvm_maintenance (when required)
smd_thumbnail
tru_tags (for keywords only)
upm_insert_tab

Admin theme

And let us not forget the beautiful “Vitraux” admin theme.