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 Website modification....CMS
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After talking with JimmerSD, I decided to replace the CMS on this website. The one I have been using since 2000 works great, but I think I'm ready for one a little more powerful.
The new one is called joomla. It's very web 2.0 and it's so technical its actually labeled "Open Source".
This new change will take a while. I'm still hung up on the template building part of the thing. It's purely based in PHP, MYSQL, and XML. Since I'm fairly new in dealing with XML, this will be one of those learning experiences I keep hearing about.
When I'm done, my website shouldn't look any different (hopefully). There will be some small differences, that will be part of the ease of the whole CMS, but you know, bath tub on the upper right, links on the upper left, and my mug in the videos.
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Oh yeah, I forgot!!! I have a website.
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I've been a little neglectful of my website lately. So, in the next few days I'm going to be working on updating everything, syncing things up to what actually matter to me, and hopefully add a few things in the Tings section.
If you have any ideas on what I should do to improve my website, please give me some input. The odds are if you know about this website, you know me so you'd know how to get into contact with me.
I have been thinking about trying the whole message board thing again, but honestly, I really rather not try that again. Every time I try, it fails because no one ever swings by to post. Also, I have the whole bandwidth issue.
Speaking of bandwidth, I decided to phase out my self-hosted photos because it just ran too slow. I have, however, made easy access to my flickr page and the albums I have on that site. Depending on if I have any, I'll upload a few new albums.
I have left the video section just as it has been since it works quicker than the photo section did, since the videos themselves are hosted by YouTube or Revver.
Anyway, yeah, let me know if you have any thoughts.
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Land of the FFA, am I still stupid?
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Sometimes I feel it hurts to be smart and actually know things. When a person is smart and responsible, he is expected to always live up to pre-set expectations, that usually are pretty high.
I remember in high school people had the preconceived notion that I was fairly dense and I had no applicable talents to anything functional. It didn't bother me very much. Well, at first it did, but when I realized exactly what was going on, I felt I could use their ignorance to my benefit. I got a lot of enjoyment doing or saying something intelligent and look at the total shock in someone's face. When someone assumes a person is dim and realizes later he's actually quite the opposite, they will begin to treat that person with far more respect than the next person.
Also, they learn things. I was rather odd in high school (I know, big surprise). That seem to be the reason for this assumed air of stupidity and/or ignorance. And sure, growing up with problems with reading and spelling also gives people the assumption someone isn't the brightest bulb in the box.
Anyway, the last few days I've been thinking a lot about this. I've been very busy at work doing things anyone stupid couldn't even dream of doing. A lot of very technical and very, very detailed work. Everything I've been doing these past few weeks all come down to today. How today goes will show how effective our hard work was.
I don't want to talk about the details of it right now. I might make a vblog when everything is finished. I won't be able to go into detail, but I can give the basics.
I just find it amazing how far I, a former LD student from a small country town who everyone had no faith in, could go so far with just a little bit of hard work.
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