Howdy everyone! How’s your day (or night) going so far? As of right now, mine is doing pretty good! That’s partly because this whole week I’ve been on Spring Break, which means no school and no homework! 
There’s another reason why I”m doing pretty good, and that’s because I’ve almost got making a template for Joomla! down pact.
If you’re like most people, then you probably have no idea what Joomla! is. Correct? Well, let me try to explain to you what it is and hopefully you’ll have a better understanding. Joomla! is a Content Management System, or rather known as CMS. What this means is that someone can easily manage a website without any XHTML, CSS, or PHP, or any other website/server language. The only downfall to doing that, is someone will either have to settle for a free template (thus being not very good) or they can pay a good chunk of money for a template for it that has a good amount of features already built into it. I’ve seen, on average, a template for Joomla! costing about sixty dollars! There was also a website that I saw that claimed it had it’s “own” content management system and they would host and design your very own template, well when I got to looking at the CMS they had, it was straight up Joomla!! Here’s the part that really got me, it cost a ton of money up front and then a good chunk of money per month if you went with them.
Well all of information has got to my head and I’ve started to realize that if I could create templates for Joomla! and then start hosting some, I could possibly get a good amount of money! This whole week (except for Tuesday and maybe today) I have spent all day acting like a geek and being a geek. Which means I have been learning how to create a template for Joomla!. Now I have a totally different way of learning how to any type of coding or learning a language. I’ve applied this same concept for learning how to create a template for Joomla! and I believe that it’s actually working!
So far I have successfully create ½ of a template. You’re probably wondering how in the world this is possible and let me know you it is. Lol – It’s possible because to create a template for Joomla! you really only need one page for whole website. This page is the “index.php” and it contains many and many lines of code. Not only does it have html and php but it also has some sort of special coding language that is for Joomla! and I think by Joomla!. I have wrote a complete front page of the template, but I need to (or rather find out how to) include some PHP coding so that it checks and see if there is any content being posted on the right side of the page, and then if there isn’t anything there then not display that stuff. Wish me luck my readers and peeps! Lol
God Bless,
Bradley Hilton
