Posts Tagged ‘welcome’
It’s… alive
Friday, September 7th, 2007
September 7th 2007
This is my website, and it has been live for the last week or so. I only got my internet yesterday (thank you Virgin for speedy delivery).
So basically I am still trying to work out the bugs on the site, and apply some new components to Joomla CMS , which I am a big fan of. I don’t know why the site seem so slow at times, but since I use this to try out new components, I am sure it could be either the social bookmarking add-on or the comments system.
Anyway, will resave all images as JPEG to minimise the load time for now, and clean out some of the more obscure social bookmarking sites.
I will keep you posted on how this comes along.
My new website
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007
June 23rd 2007
OK, it took a couple of days to do this, but I think it was worth it. I have now ported my site from old Joomla 1.0.13 to Joomla 1.5.3, transferred all the content (including portfolio). For you who are not users of this eminent open source project, let me just give you a little background as to WHY I chose to do this when I got more prospective clients and employers looking at my site.
As you may or may not know, Joomla! is closely related to the Mambo CMS. A couple of years back, the company behind Mambo wanted to do such extensive changes to their usage policy that the developers collectively resigned – taking their code with them. Mambo continued on their own, and Joomla! was born out of the disgruntled developers. So far everything was nice and lovely in CMS-land, but slowly and surely (by version 0.9.5) the developers got tired of the bugs that they inherited from Mambo and decided to do a complete code rewrite. Unfortunately there was not a lot of time and they went ahead with 1.0 of Joomla! (have I bored you to tears yet?).
Joomla! 1.0.+ was embraced by many developers who supported the views of the developers, and many new users sprang to life as well – exporting their sites from Mambo to Joomla left, right and center.
The code changes between 1.0 and 1.5 were so big that simply converting the content was impossible for many site owners, myself included. The template system had changed (for the better), leaks and security issues had been plugged, that finally I could not resist and decided to move everything over, just to take advantage of many of the new features.
OK, I still kept the layout, but everything in the background has changed.Also the new version of the portfolio system is a lot more customisable which I will make use of later on. For now it is a lot of “just get it in there”, so I hope you will excuse any spelling mistakes, and the few bugs I know are lurking around the corner, and if you do run in to any, please drop me a line.
