Getting Better at Joomla

Well, It's been a few (several) days since I posted, not that anyone has noticed, but here goes.

I've been multi-tasking for several days. Learning CSS has taken up a good bit of time and I've found several good resources for tutorials, etc... Getting the details correct is pretty durn difficult for an old dog but I am getting the hang of the basic elements (properties, values etc...) and learning to edit and re-write CSS files to achieve the look I want in my pages.

I think I've mentioned using GIMP for doing editing of the image sources for your pages. It works really well. I took a good basice template and completely re-skinned it by using GIMP. The look is totally different and I can use the "localhost" to verify changes before uploading to my website, very cool.

So a LOT of time has been spent re-skinning the look, learning the CSS properties and adjusting them and a LOT of time spent reading, researching and trying to retain all of the information I've absorped.

Anyway, I'm about 2% short of going live with my site BlogOn!, and hopefully will have a viable site operating very shortly.

Here is a list of very helpful sites and resources.

Great HTML resource
Pick a color scheme
Primo tutorials on everything
A lot of good stuff for joomla
free OpenSource is always cool

That about wraps it up, I'll be blogging regularly from my new site very shortly. I still need to figure out all the feeds, trackback, all that good stuff. Looks like a whole lot more reading to do.

See ya all.