Your Name:Today’s Date: 2008/05/19

Week or date reporting about: Week 7 Friday, Week 8 Monday

Day(s) worked or described: M F

Total hours for week: 9

The School:
Woodson

Kind of Work: Website Project

Main Report or Narrative: 

So on Friday I tried Mitch's suggestion for alternative IP for accessing the server with FTP but no success.  Without FTP everything is so inconvenient, especially chmoding things.  The permission system on Mac Server sucks... that's all I will say.  When I tried to install an extension I have make make certain folder 777 before installing it then reverting it back, the whole process is too tedious.  

Anyway I was trying to install a photo gallery extension and I found out that the PHP version that was preloaded into the server does not have GD library to process photos.  So I searched all around to find out how to install it.  Eventually I came to http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/ which solved my problem by installing PHP 5.1 with GD support.  That's when I ended the day on Friday.

Today I came in and right away started working on the gallery component.  It was having trouble creating thumbnails on Friday even after I installed the entropy package so I reinstalled the gallery.  It worked and I uploaded a test album.  All worked.  Then I did some clean up on the example contents.  Oh and I forgot to say I installed a new template on Friday; a kiddish one, but I think it's appropriate for a preschool website.

Anyway checkout the site at http://www.woodsonsouth.cps.k12.il.us/cpc/ and try the gallery out.  It's power by a component named phoca, pretty slick.  First time I used this component though cause the website I'm running still has an earlier version of Joomla.

So the plan is that I show the site the Head Teacher over at CPC on Friday and see how it goes.

Oh one more thing, the Mac server keeps stalling on me when I was working on the site... like once every half an hour (probably cause it's old), and furthering my hate toward Mac servers. 

Well it was a fun project, launching a professional looking website is just so easy with Joomla, I highly recommend this piece of software.


(Optional) Thought for the week: No Macs for Life!

(Optional) What’s playing now?: Little kids music

(Optional) What’s been good to read lately?: My own lips