My First Joomla Module

June 17th, 2006

This isn’t really a how to, maybe a document of my own confusion. Anyhow, my current project is to add a simple sidebar module to Bottle Cap-O-Rama that displays a current count of all the bottle caps. Sounds like an easy task, however the site runs on Joomla and the ideal way to do this involves several layers of technology.

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WordPress Clean Up

June 14th, 2006

Spent most of the day hacking away at clean-up on Webomatica, mostly due to the frustrations of seeing Google not index the site properly. I chalk it up to the fact that I moved a bunch of content from static HTML pages to dynamically driven WordPress ones, and not really understanding the nature of “SEF” (search engine friendly) links.

Spent most of the day hacking away at clean-up on Webomatica, mostly due to the frustrations of seeing Google not index the site properly. I chalk it up to the fact that I moved a bunch of content from static HTML pages to dynamically driven WordPress ones, and not really understanding the nature of “SEF” (search engine friendly) links.

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Diving In With Joomla

January 29th, 2006

Starting to muck about with Joomla, an open source CMS that I’m planning to use for my bottle cap collection, which is getting far too large for me to handle in the old, manual way. So far I’ve noticed the basic concept is similar to WordPress as there’s CSS templates wrapping around information stored in a database, and it also uses PHP. But Joomla seems to have much more robust admin tools, modules, and graphic support to make all the parts of a web page look prettier.

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