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I mean, if anyone wants to assist me with writing, I'm game to start a new site.. I'm a sysadmin and have plenty of experience deploying websites.
I think a joomla cms + this theme + a discourse forum would be a pretty killer and modern setup. I even went ahead and bought the domain "poppunkers.com" just in case...
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Hey, MMJ dispensaries need websites too! Find a niche market and go for it. Seriously though, you could pick a particular industry that you enjoy and/or have contacts in to market your services to. Use the "cookie cutter" approach to save yourself some time. Do you have any experience with Joomla or any other content management systems? You should check it out. It's free and easy to customize. Slap a rockettheme.com template on there, configure the modules, and you've got yourself a kickass website with very little effort on your part. The hardest thing about freelance web development/design is that you're going to have to generate and follow up on leads to get new clients AND dedicate enough time to do the actual work. You can't do both at the same time, so time management is very critical. I do this on the side but can't seem to get over that hurdle and do this full time without hiring someone to help me get new clients. Good luck with it!
Since 1.7 there has been an update feature. (http://www.joomla.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5381).
Documentation - granted they just moved some shit around, I have found the documentation extremely useful. But yes, you have to dig to find what you are looking for (even after digging several times I find it difficult to find stuff I know exists). It does have a bit of a learning curve and it took several times of reading through the documentation to fully understand everything but it is there if you look.
Joomla 2.5 - Having just upgraded several sites running custom components I have written, there was only 1 single function that had to be changed. All the templates, components, etc. that I am using and have written have continued to work after moving from 1.6 to 1.7 to 2.5. I will say however, something has changed with the templating in 2.5 and I haven't been able to create new templates from scratch as the 'style' never shows up.
I actually enjoy working in Joomla more than Wordpress or CodeIgnitor. I have been developing sites with Joomla for about 4 years now.
http://www.concrete5.org/ http://www.joomla.org/ http://wordpress.org/
Just a few. I have only used Wordpress, but Concrete5 looked pretty good. It's mostly personal preference and what they need. Wordpress is blog based primarily, so maybe use something else if a blog-type setup is not required.
So, maybe a tool to handle the budget might serve you.
And you can do a whole lot of this absolutely free that will give you an incredible skill set if you were of a mind to go for that line of work. If you are not already familiar with that to begin with.
Building your skill set gives you more self-confidence, it is hard knowledge that you can apply widely, it offers new opportunities and it might allow you to consider options that you might have thought were not available to you.
Lead a good, happy, inspiring and joyful life.
Good luck.
- Update to 1.5.26
- Download Redcomponent Migrator
- If you can jump from 1.5.26 to 3.4.3 that's be great. If for some reason you get bad results then go to 2.5.28 via the component and THEN jump to 3.4.3.
It may be painlss, it may not be. I would recommend turning on error reporting to determine what plugins, modules or components are breaking the page.
You can basically use any existing CMS, like Wordpress, Typo3, Joomla, etc. and convert your existing website to a template and the data needed for the CMS.
Most CMS are written in PHP, which, as you stated in another comment, you are familiar with.
- WordPress is for the classical "Blog-type" sites (When searching for it, use the .org domain, not the .com domain as the .com domain is the default WordPress hosting domain where anybody can build their own blogs.)
- Joomla is a free, all purpose CMS with really easy to generate templates. Possibly, you can even use your Bootstrap Template since Joomla uses Bootstrap for it's own template system.
Joomla and WordPress both have great communities and tutorials so you should be getting started easily.
But for both, the basic process would be the same:
Convert your existing (I assume static) site into CMS-friendly content and convert the template layout to a template for the respective CMS, so that the CMS fully takes over the page generation.
Não me admirava, houve um que não me lembro agora, que estava no portal da transarência e que custou mais de 150.000€ e foi feito em joomla, que é à borla, mas esqueceram-se de retirar as tags...
You can't update from J2.5 to J3.x, that move is called a migration and is different than an upgrade. Here's a how-to guide. To fix your current issue, I would try to upgrade to 2.5.27 by downloading the update package and installing it via extensions manager.. If that doesn't work, then disable the Azrul System Plugin directly in the database (you may need assistance with that) and try the 2.5.27 upgrade again.
Before you start any of this, create a backup if you have not already. Akeeba backup is the industry standard.
I was hired with no experience to run a Joomla website and make a lot of changes to it. No coding needed and it's generally free, though some expansions for it might cost money.
You probably just want to use a template or a content management system like Joomla.
HTML is very basic and doesn't do anything other than let you display text/images/tables and stuff like that on the screen. Anything deeper requires an actual programming language like PHP. Say if you need the site to do calculations and etc. I am not sure, but I think Java is used for interactive content, more like an app thats on the webpage. Flash I think is a similar platform that is very useful for animations and moving objects in general that are codded to do things. (Hence its popularity as a platform for web games. e.g. Armorgames.com has a lot).
MySQL if I understand correctly, is used to create a database. Something you don't need unless you're storing user created data, like username, passwords, submitted content, and etc.
CSS is just an addition to HTML and is only a single file hosted on the site that lets you customize the layout and how certain things are displayed. Just getting a theme and looking at the CSS file will let you know how things are organized.
The great thing about content management systems is that it does all of it for you really. It creates the database, it does the coding, and it gives you all the tools to make your site look what you want to. You can add themes and extensions as well to get what you want.
Check it out Its completely free open source software, too.
I am still not exactly sure what kind of site you want to create though. If you want to do it on your own, yeah probably a good idea to learn PHP. Learn by necessity.
If the site is basic, it can be hosted with pretty much any of the popular hosting companies. Depending on the setup right now, you will likely need to purchase and domain name and then point it to the new hosting server.
As for the editing portion, there isnt much out there that is free and comes close to Dreamweaver (that I'm aware of). Most sites have started using a CMS (Content Management System), such as Wordpress, Joomla, or Drupal (all are free). Wordpress would be the easiest to use and has the smallest learning curve. With these CMS, you would login to the admin area and edit your page content without having to look at code. It has its own WYSIWYG built in. Btw, theres also a /r/Wordpress subreddit.
Btw, greek alum here (Sigma Nu).
I hope the skull.gif was a joke ^^. I am afraid I can't really help you on the matter. I used Joomla http://www.joomla.org/ which is great! Although it has a fairly high learning curve (for me anyway)
Joomla! Get more:
- Tables!
- Drop downs!
Wow actually, they finally kicked the tables. I'm just a hater.
Core layout files are tableless: New for Joomla! 1.6, all core output files are written in XHTML 1.0 Strict. HTML 5 is also supported in Joomla! 1.6.
Would recommend the above. (I develop websites for clients and this is what I use as a base if they don't specify.)
I see potential if you sell the gear as kits with each part still reasonably competitive. Maybe market it as a father son project?
I've looked at those ebay power supplies, never tried. The 555 one seems ok - the one I have in my clock has been running for 8 years so far (same as the one in my temp display)
I had my first Eagle board produced a couple of months ago - used dirtypcbs $14 for a first go at making a board was a good learning experience :) The CNC solution sounds like fun!
My site runs on Joomla and the template is rhuk_solarflare_ii - it's an older install, I've tried the newer installs but the templates and back-end just aren't as intuitive.
I've made a few of my own motors back a few years ago. Much easier to buy commercial motors, and the club I'm in doesn't allow home brew. There's a few local laws, too :(
If you're ever on TRF, you'll find me there as Krusty. Otherwise, feel free to shoot me an email :)
Claims to be powered by Joomla. The pill button style reminds me of the default pill buttons back in the earlier versions of Flash, so maybe you remember seeing similar in some older flash games?
Go to here and put the files in a directory on a live remote server or on XAMP / MAMP (localhost).
You can run through the normal install procedure in order to generate a configuration.php file so you can then change the connection strings to that of the database you're trying to recover data from.
- Change the font you are using. Times New Roman looks so 90's. Arial might be a better option.
- If your host supports it, I'd look at installing a Content Management System, like Wordpress or Joomla. Both will give a professional look to your site. Both are pretty easy to learn, and there is a heap of websites that will help you make the most of those systems. They are also much easier to manage and change the look of your site as you wish.
- Guestbooks are also pretty 90's. The days of Geocities.
- Find a direction or theme you want your site to convey. And plan out what you want people to do. Map things out on paper and design the structure accordingly. People need to be engrossed in your site, so they stay longer. Keep that in mind.
- Games are okay, so long as they keep you coming back time and time again.
- Stick with it. It's all about learning what works and what doesn't. Hopefully your host will have stats of pages visited. If pages are not getting hit, change them, or get rid of them and build something else that will be attractive.
Please don't see this as a negative sort of feedback. I remember building my first pages, hand coding HTML. It's great to know the low level stuff, in order to micro-adjust. But things can be easier. Especially if you want to get your site major hits.
Good Luck!
2.5.22 released. Two bugs fixed, contact forms not working and com_finder predefined date filters.
If Facebook is not an option, I highly recommend that you use a friendly CMS such as
joomla: http://www.joomla.org/ or Wordpress: http://wordpress.org/
Also, it is better to find a Web hosting company that supports CMS out of the box. For the design, use an existing template for either CMS and customize it, some are free, most are very affordable (few cups of coffee :) )
As for the maintenance, If you have a simple website, 2-3 hours a week should be enough. You will want to update the content, upgrade the CMS every once and a while, backup and etc.
Both Joomla and Wordpress are easy, depending on your IT expertise level, it might take you around 1 week to get the website running.
The only way to really get better at any programming is to actually do it. After you have designed a few (>10) websites and feel you have an understanding of the process I have one word for you. Joomla.
Install Joomla, or some other popular CMS but leave most of the defaults.
I work in the web hosting industry, and am usually the guy who cleans up compromises. The number of exploits I see from system insecurities is VERY small. Usually the attacker got in through a poorly secured web application that allowed the user to run remote code. Although there are plenty of exploits in an unpatched win2k3 box, I've found most bot net runners don't even bother with them since they have a low return rate, as most people who run web servers update once in a while.
I'm over generalizing a bit, but if you want someone to hack your server, your best bet is an unsecured web app.
If you want to see someone try to brute force your server, try running sshd on port 22 (there are some windows versions), or even an FTP server.
Templates are all over the place for free and a 4th grader could figure out how to implement them(or just watch a walk through to do it). That's what make them so powerful as sites - they are so simple and straight forward. I've messed around with several of them and it's so simple that it's nearly impossible to mess anything up.
Realistically I don't think there is a chance that he paid someone for his current site, it's probably a friend that made it or he made it himself. Actually it looks like it's already made from a template(going from the source HTML) but regardless, there's a ton of room for improvement and implementing Joomla means uploading a folder. http://www.joomla.org/