Joomla Blues

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I have a book. I have a host (hurray, Alexandr!) I even have some templates, and I rudimentary understanding of how modules work.

What I do NOT have is the gist of how to enter our data into the CMS itself... I know I am missing something really basic here; maybe I need some chocolate first.

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Butt in Gear

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I've been trying to motivate since I got back from a family vacation on Tuesday. Note the word 'trying.' My girls have been grumpy/growth-spurting, and I'm splitting my remaining energy between catching up on my email/A&S 50 stuff and (finally) babyproofing our living room (the girls have had a bedroom size baby yard until now).

But today I WILL srite up that outline for our web guru, so we can get the ball rolling on the domain transfer. The public side of the project is much languishing right now for lack of the new site, so today I start to change that.

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Growing Pains

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Well, we have an honest-to-God Web Guru helping get our new site up and running now, and he is even thinking of offering us FREE hosting - Joy! The downside? He says that transferring the domain name may take WEEKS.

Ok, ok, the forums are hardly *jumping*, but I better be able to figure out how to archive that data (namely those introductions!) so I can put it up, as is, on the new site. Meanwhile, this blog will be IT for the Challenge. Folks will be able to comment here (gasp), and I supposed I could put up a copy of the intro letter here for new folks who want to take a peak, but OY; talk about a long detour to a better highway!

Anyway, we have to figure out what we're doing first, so we're good for the meantime. I'll let you all know when things get rolling!

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Getting Stuck In

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I've been home from War and the Pity Party/Post-Revel for about 20 hours now, and I've spent my day alternately working on web design issues and playing Civ 4 when I got frustrated with the former. Unpacking? Yeah, right.

I've gotten SIX people who have said that they'd help with website/database stuff, but I have to know what to ask them to help WITH, so I'm learning and diagramming, and panicing some more. I need nested pages, a new hosting service that I can't afford, forms and database to go with them for contact info entry, and, if possible, better forums (the ones we have are ok, just not great.)

I have a STACK of contact info data to enter, and I just really don't want to have to do it twice, plus my main web guru is really only available to help for the next 10 days, so I'm hopeful that we can get something accomplished in that time, and I can enter it all once on the NEW site, and be done with it. Content for that new site, including guidelines for running sessions, will be coming shortly thereafter, the guidelines by the end of the month for sure, even if I have to put them up on the old site, or even here, if the transition takes more than a couple of days.

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Hi ho hi ho its off to War we go...

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Well, if we make it out of here before dark, I'll be happy. My stint as summer school teacher ends today, and I have NOT been able to prepare for War as much/as well as I would have liked. My girls don't have enough garb, and neither do I (not having been to War since before I had my girls means much of my garb no longer fits), and I haven't had the time to prep the history component of my Tapestry class as I wanted to (I still have the techniques part complete though, and that's the bulk of the class).

I suppose that no one is EVER completely ready for War, but with working the day I'm leaving for the first time (I give exams in an hour), AND taking children for the first time, AND, honestly, handing over of much of my control over the packing process to my husband... well, I'm nervous. I'm confident that we'll all survive as long as the weather stays reasonable, but otherwise? All bets are off.

One thing that I'm fairly certain will turn out ok? The A&S 50 meeting! Hurray! Hope to see you there - Mon, Aug 6, in AS 6, at 7 PM!!!

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