I haven’t done much else lately besides download opensource files.
So far, I seem to have a 50 50 chance of getting an app to work…I’m using my dad’s site host filemanager to hold all the files and folders of my tests.
I uploaded TinyMCE ,the wysiswyg html editor.I uploaded fkdEditor a bigger editor.
I uploaded a few CMS applications,too.Some CMS’s are flatfiled so no Mysql(ick!)
I even tried out CuteNews–it’s cute alright.
I sigh at myself.I am way too into this web stuff.My boyfriend can’t pry me off the computer, not even with food or sex.
The hours zip by.I sleep badly.
I guess I’m addicted.And very jealous of people who get paid for this.
I did get paid (well the check is in the mail, hello freelancing) for stripping the tables from some code and replacing them with stylesheets& divs.
The site is a guy’s who does that SEO stuff and his pages are covered up by google adsense. I actually told him off for it.Then I saw that’s what he’s into.I felt a little dumb.
I was determined to let the page be liquid but in the long run had to add the absolute positioning technique.
He wanted to see if the divs would be better for robots or spiders.That’s what I think anyway-he never really came out and said so.
So why am I downloading so much stuff?
Because (sigh at myself again) I offered to do up a site for a man who posted an ad on Craigslist, wanting a five page site for his store.I was totally qualified off the bat-hadn’t I just done over stonestreetpress.com?
Which was a much bigger project.More pages, tons of tables, tons of fretting about what my dad would think.
A little joke: I only a couple of days ago got the footer of each page in the right place! I slacked with the footer…positioned the divs wrong-so they were really wonky on some of the deeper pages.
I answered the ad and he wrote back with some links and a link to a site he liked.
I checked out the existant site–the design and layout’s pretty dismal– though the products seem cool.Buddha statues,jewelry, yoga stuff, that kind of thing.
But it has that out of the box look and that dreadful papyrus looking background which to me looks very dated.
But I felt up to making him a prettier and more hip 5 page site …until he mentioned this content management system he has.I knew instantly this mean PHP, possibly Mysql,too.
Mostly php and mysql go hand in hand so you can’t get much else.I’m sure he wouldn’t mind if I just came out and told him I’m a noob with both.I can’t even get my free database to work with wordpress.I told him I didn’t know mysql.I haven’t heard back from him since and considering it took him a week to respond to my response to his ad…we’ll see.
But that was why I was beating my brains out finding content adders or site builders that weren’t mysql’d…There’s actually quite a lot of free stuff using flat file databasing out there.(I got the best results with a google search of flatfile+ database because mysql+ is+ evil didn’t return much that was useful)