It’s been six months now that I have been unemployed and I guess you could say that I am now starting to get nervous about it. So I’m just going to write it out. It’s my blog I can do what I want to.
I think that one thing that I’m missing is…well…accomplishments. Some people who are applying to these open jobs, they can say “oh I started so-and-so initiative” or “I suggested we do X and as a result we got Y new business”. Employers want someone good. They’re becoming very selective.
Perhaps the way to sell myself is like this. Maybe I did not launch any big initiatives, but one thing that I can do is get people talking and act as a sounding board. I am somehow able to make people think they’re a little smarter than they thought before. After you get to speaking with me a little.
TOTALLY FUCKED!!! »« Joomla 1.0 Templates are Confusing
I am coming up against a couple of problems right now with my joomla project. At the moment I have created a custom template and installed it, but I am having trouble assigning it to the specific content. For some reason the browser is still getting the CSS from the default template.
To further screw things up, I am seeing some iffy stuff going on with the server itself. FTP has been unreliable, and installing the template was very very unreliable. I don’t know if this is a problem with Joomla 1.0 or the hosting provider or both. I’m tempted to setup the entire thing on my local system. It’s such a mess right now. I don’t think that it is setup as intended and it happened way before I had my chance at doing it right.
Update: ok, now I know that the templates are applied to content through the menu system. It seems to be the case that the id of the menu item must be used in the url to get the template to be applied. There are multiple urls which will get you to a page in Joomla, but you must use the same url as your users would if they went to the page through the site’s menus.
Bluster »« Using Your Own CSS in Joomla
I don’t know how this works in Joomla 1.5, but in Joomla 1.0 the easiest way to do this is to make a template.
A template is just a zip file containing an XML file and a PHP file. I believe both are required but there is a chance you might be able to use the XML file alone, although this would not be very useful.
The XML file must conform to the standard which does vary a bit from 1.0 to 1.5. Just get an example Joomla template and unzip it. This is easy to hack.
After you’ve finished your hack go ahead and install the template through the administrative site. To apply a template and look at your work, go in to the Template Manager via the Site menu. You can apply a template to the whole site, or just to items which are exposed through the site’s menus.
In my case I had multiple site menus to choose from, some of which aren’t even visible in the site anywhere. Kind of crufty setup but it allowed me to use one of these as a way to covertly test and preview my work.
It turns out that you can edit the CSS through Joomla after you’ve installed your template, but I would not recommend this.
I also think that there are some problems when you try to remove and replace the template. So maybe it is better to just edit the CSS through the administrative site.
Joomla 1.0 Templates are Confusing »« Version Numbers
