<p><strong>Oh man I'm writing this a second time... I accidentally press back on my touchpad and nothing was saved... Wordpress sucks, worst draft saving system ever!</strong></p>
<p>Your Name: Li An "Da TruWarier" Kwan</p>
<p>Today’s Date: 2008/05/05 [Monday 5/5/2008]</p>
<p>Day(s) worked or described: M </p>
<p>Total hours for week: 9</p>
<p>The School: Woodson </p>
<p>Kind of Work: Website Project</p>
<p>Main Report or Narrative:</p>
<p>Oh man I feel so productive today because I feel so liberated from the horrors of banner-making, flyer-making, first class tutorials, and non-computer related issues.</p>
<p>Today I actually did some real work!  You can tell how excited I am, I'm writing a report about it.</p>
<p>So basically the project is to set up a website for the Child Parent Center.  Sara, Mr. Spearman, and I talked briefly about it last week and today the project has officially begun.  I choose to go with the Joomla CMS since I have the most experience with it and I know absolutely zero coding.  Today my goal was to setup a basic installation of it on the server.</p>
<p>So this is what I did today:</p>
<p>1. First I have to verify that the server has all the necessary framework to run it (Apache, MySQL, PHP).  I didn't expect it to be a OSX server.  I've been spoiled by my host with cPanel in a Linux box, which came with all the necessary stuff to run basically everything.  Plus I'm not a big fan of Mac, I think it's an elitist thing; so today was my first real experience with Mac.</p>
<p>2. OSX Server (10.3.39) came with MySQL, Apache, and PHP installed, so I just had to turn them on.</p>
<p>3. PHP wasted a lot of my time because I didn't know it was off on default and that it's not in a convenient place.  I was trying to load the Joomla installation with just MySQL and Apache, obviously didn't work.  When I found out PHP was the problem... I felt dumb.</p>
<p>4. I downloaded Joomla</p>
<p>5. Installed it on the server   </p>
<p>6. In addition I also installed MAMP which creates a local testing environment for sites. (I use WAMP so I thought there has to be a Mac version somewhere)</p>
<p>The fruit of my labor is here:<br />
<a href="http://www.woodsonsouth.cps.k12.il.us/cpc/">http://www.woodsonsouth.cps.k12.il.us/cpc/</a></p>
<p>Now it's customizing it with templates and extensions and maybe a little bit of my terrible Photoshop skills to make it look good.</p>
<p>Hopefully this project will cause the eventual renovation of Woodson's main page http://www.woodsonsouth.cps.k12.il.us , which I honestly think it's pretty pathetic looking for the 21st century, no offense to the pioneers.</p>
<p>I'm excited, this is why I work for CUIP.  I didn't apply to make banners and flyers! </p>
<p>(Optional) Thought for the week: I will never buy a Mac</p>
<p>(Optional) What’s playing now?: Pandora</p>
<p>(Optional) What’s been good to read lately?: Anything but the filthy REDEYE</p>
