How do you make a website?

Oli R C said:
Yeah. Mind you, if I just decrease the size of my browser window, it has the same effect. Which makes me wonder if it's happening to anyone that visits my site, on a smaller screen. :suspect:
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yeah, perhaps try making all the texts and stuff smaller, it's quite large atm.
 
cheers, I'm just setting it up now, i had to find my database info and stuff :)
 
Ah yeah. Well done. Have you deleted the installation files?
 
Also, what you see now, is basically a whole load of examples of different modules, articles, and menus.

Play around with them, to get a feel for what does what, and then you can begin to remove them, and build what you want.

Instead of deleting all of the examples, you can just 'unpublish' them. This way they still remain, just incase you want to refer back to them. Once you are very confident, you can delete everything you don't need - BUT... WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT DELETE THE 'MAIN MENU MODULE'

Everything will be gone in a flash :thumbsdown:

:D
 
Oli R C said:
Hmmm... Are you absolutely sure you're using the correct details?

Your username will be 'admin'
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yeah im pretty sure, i get the following error

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: stripos() in /home/joshthom/public_html/joomla/Joomlasite/libraries/joomla/environment/uri.php on line 675
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thanks I've got it now it was on that page you linked, the admin login , i was trying to do it from the main page thing.

Thanks :)
 
Cool. That's the entrance to your affectionately named 'back end'.

Worth bookmarking.
 
okay, i've bookmarked it, just having a play around with this interface :)
 
Yantorsen said:
yep :) about not delete components just unpublish them for now
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Yes, but also NEVER delete the 'Main Menu' module. Unfortunately for me, I learnt that the hard way. However, on the fortunate side, it was the very first thing I did, so I didn't lose anything.

I have a habit of doing things like that! I think it's called 'being inquisitive' :lol:
 
Something else VERY important.

Keep up-to-date with the updates! Otherwise security is severely compromised. We're on 1.5.7 at the mo. It's not unknown for updates to be released at a turnover of 1 a week, so keep a check on the Joomla site.
 
Oli R C said:
Something else VERY important.

Keep up-to-date with the updates! Otherwise security is severely compromised. We're on 1.5.7 at the mo. It's not unknown for updates to be released at a turnover of 1 a week, so keep a check on the Joomla site.
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ok thanks :)
 
Cool. And on that high note, I'll bid you a good night.

I'm subscribed to this thread, so keep us up-to-date, and I'll offer my help whenever I can. Hopefully HIMUPNORTH will chip in a bit more too. He's more knowledgeable than me on this whole subject.

Chow 4 now!!

:D
 
Thanks for all your help mate, really appreciate it and everyone else who has helped in this thread. I'll keep you up to date and will probably post here again tomorow :)

Good night, and take care :)
 
You guys were busy while I was snoring! :lol:

Joomla can stand in it's own directory. Simply put a redirect in the base directory. Here is an example of mine (which does not point to a Joomla directory but theory the same):
Code: 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head><script language="javascript"><!--
location.replace("http://www.garywilliamson.co.uk/pages/")
//-->
</script> 
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-1165523-1");
pageTracker._initData();
pageTracker._trackPageview();
</script>
</body>
</html>

You will see I have my Google analytics urchin in there as well.




Now that I see that your requirements in terms of look and feel I urge you to have a look at the turning gate indexes again. They are REALLY simple to use. You control your site fully from Lightroom. To create a page you just create a collection and apply the web style to that collection. They use XML indexes which means that if you add a subdirectory page the parent page automatically adds a link.

The changes you can make to the look is limited however you could mock your current style very easy in these indexes as they are similar.

One of the benefits is you can throw up a page that is not visible to others for clients (by giving them the link) and once there they can navigate to your other work (main site) easily as navigation headers are included. This has lead to further business for me.

My site is created entirely this way except the blog which is driven by Wordpress.

If sticking with Joomla can I suggest two good resources. www.joomlart.com and www.templateplazza.com. They create template with lots of useful java tools and ready-made CSS which adds to the richness of the look and feel of any site.

I created this one using an of the shelf joomlart template: www.invernesscameraclub.co.uk
It is still in it's early days (couple of weeks old) as I am working out how to implement community/gallery tools.

Hope this information is of some use.


Gary
 
HIMUPNORTH said:
You guys were busy while I was snoring! :lol:

Joomla can stand in it's own directory. Simply put a redirect in the base directory. Here is an example of mine (which does not point to a Joomla directory but theory the same):
Code: 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head><script language="javascript"><!--
location.replace("http://www.garywilliamson.co.uk/pages/")
//-->
</script> 
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-1165523-1");
pageTracker._initData();
pageTracker._trackPageview();
</script>
</body>
</html>

You will see I have my Google analytics urchin in there as well.
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Thanks, that will come in handy :)


Now that I see that your requirements in terms of look and feel I urge you to have a look at the turning gate indexes again. They are REALLY simple to use. You control your site fully from Lightroom. To create a page you just create a collection and apply the web style to that collection. They use XML indexes which means that if you add a subdirectory page the parent page automatically adds a link.
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Not really sure how you controll your site so much with lightroom, I doesn't seem have an "add page" feature or anything of such.



If sticking with Joomla can I suggest two good resources. www.joomlart.com and www.templateplazza.com. They create template with lots of useful java tools and ready-made CSS which adds to the richness of the look and feel of any site.

I created this one using an of the shelf joomlart template: www.invernesscameraclub.co.uk
It is still in it's early days (couple of weeks old) as I am working out how to implement community/gallery tools.
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Cheers, those templates look pretty swish, will use one if I go down the joomla route, which I probably will unless the lightroom route seems better.

Hope this information is of some use.
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yep, definatly, Thanks :)
 
Yantorsen said:
I'm trying, having difficulty understanding the back end though, nothing I do seems to effect anything on the site preview.
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Yeah. It's like that :bonk:

All I can say is, persevere. It does take time to work it out.

I've been working on mine most of the day, and I haven't actually made that much process :gag:
 
Oli R C said:
Yeah. It's like that :bonk:

All I can say is, persevere. It does take time to work it out.

I've been working on mine most of the day, and I haven't actually made that much process :gag:
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mmm, I'm still playing around, slowly getting somewhere I think, I only need about 3 or 4 pages, and the default thing has loads.
 
Yantorsen said:
mmm, I'm still playing around, slowly getting somewhere I think, I only need about 3 or 4 pages, and the default thing has loads.
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Try unpublishing everything but the Main Menu, and begin to add your own pages within the Main Menu.
 
Yantorsen said:
how do you delete menus and pages?
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Menus usually sit in the Module Manager (in the Extensions Menu). Go there and you can use the'Enabled' column to unpublish them.

Pages sit in the different menus (in the 'Menu' menu).

Go to the Main Menu option, in the 'Menu' menu, and unpublish the stuff in there. Then you can click on new, and begin building a new page. To create a simple page with text on it, choose 'Articles' then 'Section Blog Layout'. However, before you do that you must create a new Section, and Category (in that order), via the Content Menu. Simply name your new Section and Category the same thing.

I'm sorry if this sounds complicated, but it sort of is, and it's hard to describe :gag:

Don't worry about deleting anything at the minute.
 
Oh, and then once you've done that, you can then create a new 'article', containing your text, or whatever, and assign it to the category you created earlier, then hey presto, it should appear on your new page :woot:
 
Yantorsen said:
so you just upload a text file from front page and save it onto your server with an FTP client?
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Whatever you do, dont use FrontPage.....Unless you want a site that looks like it was done in Word or Publisher by an 11 year old!


Joomla is definitiely worth looking into.

But what exactlky are you not getting from your site as it stands?
 
Oli R C said:
Oh, and then once you've done that, you can then create a new 'article', containing your text, or whatever, and assign it to the category you created earlier, then hey presto, it should appear on your new page :woot:
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Cheers, just got back from school, going to have a go now :)

HIMUPNORTH said:
For the third time www.theturninggate.net!

I have a teenage son like you! :D

You need to add these templates to your Lightoom installation.
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:lol: how do you add them to the lightroom installation?
 
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