Tag Archives: Joomla!

1st Real Project

June 8, 2010

Svcliving.com

Here’s just a quick update about something I recently did. As many of you know I love coding, especially website coding. Many people have asked me why I like it so much, and the only truthful answer I can give is the fact that it’s sometimes a challenge. I love challenges even if I get mad or angry while doing it. Why? Because after I’m done and get it working 100% correctly, I’m happy and excited about it. :)

With that in mind, you also know that I’ve coded a couple websites. Including but not limited to My Pastors, My School’s, My School District’s Welcome Center, and mine (new one in the process).

As of just recently, I can now add another one to that list. Also in a couple days from now I’ll be able to add two more, but for now I’ll just talk about one.

This picture is a screenshot taken from my phone (since it’s what I’ve typed up this blog post with) and it’s of the site I can now add to my portfolio. It’s for a real estate company as you can maybe see from the screen shot. It is a Joomla! template and it’s also a Joomanager theme. There was a little bit of a learning curve going from just coding a Joomla! template to adding and making sure that Joomanager worked and looked correctly. I was excited to do this site and glad that I got it done before my deadline. The link to the live website is: http://www.svcliving.com/ even though they currently don’t have it all the way up as they are learning how to use Joomla and Joomanager. Just thought I’d share this with you all.

And upcoming sometime soon is a post called “Who Are the Best Actors”. I’ve still got a ways to go before that post is complete, but I’m hoping it’s going to end up good.

God Bless,
Bradley

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Recent Activity Update

November 12, 2009

It’s been quite some time since I’ve posted something to my blog and that’s due to a couple of things. One is church and school have been keeping me busy. School’s going pretty good, except for the fact that tonight we have a Pre-Calc take home test and this section is pretty hard in my opinion (and a couple of other people)! What’s keeping me busy with church you’re probably asking yourself?! Well, I’ve been doing a lot of research on how to get us to be able to record better and more professionally. After a ton of research and going to Guitar Center, I’ve found out that what we are wanting is a PreSonus FireStudio (Interface Only). You can go ahead and research it yourself, since I’m posting this while I wait… Basically it allows us to have multiple channels (or inputs) going to our computer, so then when we record it’s not just one channel but how every many we have set up. That way we can record and then later go and make it sound more professional than before.

Another thing that has been keeping me busy is work, which if you’ve read my blog that’s working for my school district. Well, I just got my check in the mail today and it’s way more than I expected! :) I’m excited about that, but I think half of it is going to be gone cause of paying my mom and dad off.

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Recently I’ve been spending a lot of time working on getting new features for my school’s websites. There are two main features that I’ve added, and you can see them from the picture on the left. The main feature is what I call “highlighted articles”. This is a scrollable list of articles that have been posted to the website, and it also can have pictures of the subject. I’ve ran into a ton of problems with this! I’ve over came a couple of them, but I’m still running into a couple of them. Another feature is the search bar at the top right of the menu. The positioning of this took more work than I had originally thought it would have, but hey I love a good coding challenge every so often! I also had to edit one of the Joomla! files to make the search appear in a different page than the front page. I’ve made a good amount more of changes to the site, but those are all little details that a majority of people will never know… Haha

I hopefully will be posting an article this week or weekend that has some good meaning behind it, and might get you thinking.. Who knows.

Bradley

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Job Interview

September 12, 2009

I’m not sure how many of you know this, but I have been looking for a job lately (well ever since I’ve got my own car). I have scouted a couple of places here and there looking for a good paying job with the hours that I can do and a job that i would like. Well, I think that I may have got a job that fits everything like that!

So, you know how I have done my school’s website (http://usd469.net/lhs/)? I have also done the Lansing PTA’s website (http://usd469.net/pta). Both of those sites are based off the CMS called Joomla. I love using Joomla for websites because all that I have to do is create (code) the template and then install it and make it the default theme. Then train the people on how to update their website by creating articles and stuff. After I’ve done that it means that I don’t have to worry about updating their content myself, or I don’t have to worry about teaching them the HTML they would need to know to update the website.

You may also know that my 7th hour is dedicated to updating the High School’s website, Twitter, and other websites we’re doing. I’m not the only one in that class, but I am one of the four. Mr. Wessel is the technology coordinator for USD 469 (my school’s district). I’ve helped him a lot with some server, website, and computer things. Well I decided to ask him one day if there was any chance that I could get a job helping him out or something of that sorts. That was before school started, so about four or five weeks ago.

As time has went on, things have went slowly but surely. First it started off with he didn’t know if it was actually possible since a couple of things. Then after he found out it was possible, we had to create a list of things that I could do or things that I would do with some quick training. So, after we had that done another problem arose – he didn’t know how they would be able to pay me if this went through. He finally figured it out with the help of some other people. Now after 5 weeks (or more), I see the light at the end of the long torturous tunnel! (Got that from a song lol).

This Tuesday (September 15th) I have a meeting with Dr. Bagby, Mr. Wessel, and myself. I was told that we would discuss my pay, the things that I would be doing and/or helping with, and hours. I think that I will be getting $10.50 an hour starting off with, but probably will only be doing a couple of hours a week (like maybe 6-8 hours a week or less or more). That’s not a lot compared to normal jobs, but hey I think the pay is good for a first job.

Please pray that God helps me and He gives me the correct words to say when I’m talking to them. I really want this job because it’ll be a good one and I’ll enjoy it. Sorry for such a long post, thanks for bearing with me through it! :)

God Bless,
Bradley

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Church02.5!

March 19, 2009

FINALLY I CAN SLEEP!!! Lol – That’s how i feel right now because I’ve figured out how to add a drop down menu to my template for Joomla! I told you guys in my last post that I would be posting here whenever I finally got my template with a MooMenu added. And that’s what I am doing, but in the process of doing it I thought that you guys might want to see my screen when I work on it. This screen shot is actually from whenever I was testing out the new menu and seeing if it would work in all the browsers I have installed. The ones open and up are Opera and Safari. To my surprise Internet Explorer handled the menu better than Firefox! To all the web developers you know that this came as a huge surprise!!! Lol – As you can tell I’m really excited (from all the “!”’s). Here’s the screen shot:

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The only thing that I have left to do is to edit the “templateDetails.xml” file to be up to date and to include all the files when installing. Then the next test will be to test the installing of the template and work out all of the errors that I get. Let’s pray that I can get it all working before I go to bed! :D

On a side note, I’ve been texting this girl since last week sometime, and then this past Saturday a local church had a youth service with fellowship afterward. I stayed for it and talked to someone about this girl and to find out she’s on fire for God which is AWESOME! This means that once I talk to my pastor about his rules for talking to girls, then I am going to move on from there and I’m praying that she actually likes me!!! Lol – I’m sure most of my readers don’t really care about this, but I just thought I would put that in there! Haha – That’s all for now, will update later some time, that ain’t a promise that it’ll be within a week, but I will try.

God Bless,
Bradley Hilton

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New Template!!!

March 19, 2009

I’m sure that most of you have probably been wondering when I will acutally get done with creating a template for Joomla. Well the time has come for me to show you all the almost finished Joomla template! The thing that I will include in release 1.5 will be a MooMenu (or a.k.a. Drop Menu). I will also include in that realse is CSS fixes, index.php fixes, and just little bugs and stuff. Tell me what you guys think of this template!

Link: http://www.graywolf336.com/joomla
Preview:
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I know that the preview image isn’t that big, that’s because this is the only image that i have myself. If you want to look at it with a “bigger” image, then feel free to visit http://www.graywolf336.com/joomla/ Thanks and let me know what you think!!!

God Bless,
Bradley Hilton

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