Kin hell… been trying to sort out my main website, www.spinscience.org.uk, for the last two weeks – it uses the Mambo CMS (which is good but way too indepth for me to make full use of it) and kinda broke following a server move and my fairly inexistent knowledge of php or databases didn’t help in trying to fix things up… thankfully I have some friends who do know how to make this shit work and it should be fixed soon. It’s a bugger trying to learn about stuff like this when you’re stressing and just want to get it sorted out though, not really the state of mind where you’re most prone to learning things and taking them in!
Where as this site was fairly piss easy to migrate – a few changes here and there, click some buttons et voila! God bless WordPress for being so easy to use and well thought out. Even a n00b like me could figure out how to migrate the databases and make it all work.
After a week or so of tweaking and getting plug ins and other bits it’s pretty much ready to roll – as you can see there’s a handy Flickr RSS plugin which displays photos from my Flickr account at the top of the homepage. It’s also got some other nice things like a related posts options which will show related posts (duh!) on all posts and pages and a Flash plugin which displays a player everytime I post an audio file. And there’s other things which you can’t really see but which I find incredibly cool. Oh and a supposedly dope archive plugin but I ain’t figured out how to make that one work yet.
So let’s keep it rolling, hope you enjoy the site – I’m going to be completing the online portfolio in the coming weeks, with pieces and reviews from the last few years. And of course I’ll keep writing about various things, mainly life on the other side of world and music etc… I gave up on blogging once but I ain’t got no intentions to quite this time!
Right time for some green tea me thinks…
Dude,
soz with not being too helpful on the mambo front, but by the time you get mambo up n running you could have installed Joomla ported across n be drinking tea.
Let me know if you need a hand if you decide to join the Joomla side.
ha ha, get in there bro!
yeah im def going to follow your advice – just not had time to sit down and do it all yet… im gonna try and do it tonight, was just finishing this baby first.
like i said bare food/drink or whatever is on me when you get yourself over!
god bless n00bs like me… lol
Thanks for trying to fix it tho, it’s mucho appreciated
Will give you a shout when I’ve started doing the move on the site – no doubt something will come up
inabit
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