Day 17: Incubator – Half-full Website

October 31, 2009 · Posted in 90 Days of StomperNet, Diary: StomperNet Incubator

50-Percent The arrival of good news gave me a big adrenaline boost to start my StomperNet hours. My Paypal issues with StomperNet appear to have been resolved. I just need to make some calls on the next weekday to confirm that I can use the software tools. I can’t wait.

My 17th day as a StomperNet Incubee finds me cramming everything I can learn about Joomla. Out of 10 web pages, I now have finished 5 of them. My Newbie estimate of catching up with my classmates by Monday still looks about right. Tomorrow I finish the remaining 5 then on Sunday, I work on the daily Incubator concepts I got behind on. I’m really excited for Monday. I get to ask for feedback on my spanking new website.

Some aspects of Joomla are easy. Some are not. Adding content is so far very easy. The biggest issue I had today was with making the web addresses of my website SEF or Search Engine Friendly. There were some default Joomla features that would end up being 404 or “Page not found” errors if I enable SEF on my Joomla website. I spent the better part of my StomperNet hours trying to figure out why I was getting “Page not found” errors. When I found out it was the SEF feature causing the error, the little time I had left for the day was spent trying to find a free replacement. I did not find any that worked well. I finally settled on a semi-free replacement. Semi-free here means, you are allowed to use the replacement but they will put a link in there that would advertise their replacement product. I will post this in the StomperNet forums and see if anyone else experienced the same problems.

That’s about it for now. Admittedly, I’m drained but at the same time excited for Monday

Happy Halloween everyone! The next post will be on Monday.

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