Jimmays.com

Ok, so here it goes…

We (Robin and I) have a new server!! Guess who hosts it? We do!!! So Robin bought the parts online from NewEgg and put it together and installed FreeBSD on it. After that he installed Apache, PHP, MySQL and enabled FTP and now here we are! Woo!

Right now though the ‘projects’ page is malfunctioning * I have fixed this! *. I have, though, put up the Holiday theme. As you should see it is snowing on the page and the sidebar is red, and the background is green. Also, for the moment, it appears that I have joined twilightcoders.net. I have worked with Robin on a site for his client and it appears to have gone through successfully. It took a lot of time to get working right but it actually seems to be better than this site even!

** EDIT ** So I have now set the time on the server correctly and set the time zone correctly as well… so hopefully I will get the dates and times right on here.

Well that’s all for now. I know I never post here but I am aware no one comes here. For now though we can just rest on this: Jimmay will be heard from again!!!

Happy Holidays everyone!!

Just a nice picture to spread the holiday cheer! Hope you all enjoy my site!

I will keep the snow going unless I hear it slows everything down too much

Well for the 11 hundredth time I have changed the layout of the site. I really have to stop doing that. For now though things have been moving along quite nicely.

This site runs using Code Igniters, which is great because I can separate all the different components of my site. Like, for instance, the text you are reading right now. I have a class that reaches into my database, takes this text and sifts through my BBCode and converts it into HTML.

Well any class can do that, right? True, but Code Igniters gives me the framework with which to work. What I mean by that is there is a structure, predefined by CI. I have controllers which I use for organizing my content into pages (home, about, projects, admin) and ‘views’ which are my structural markup (templates that have all my HTML just no content to go in it). There are also libraries which are for helper functions like that format class I was talking about, and to make the menu bar so it is dynamic, and my sidebar to be dynamic and those get plugged right into my templates.

In any event I should be able to stop changing things due to the ease at which I can change the structure of my pages. I have pretty much changed completely the layout page without touching the content pages which is a huge accomplishment. From now on all should be good. I will post again soon .

(oh by the way, don’t even THINK about viewing this page in Internet Explorer. I am going to see if I can fix it but until I do use Firefox or Safari, kay?)

Welcome to the new and improved Jimmays.com! I have managed to lose my original site completely and it is my fault… Oh well I thought all would end up great… I will make sure I back up my site as often as I can. For now this will remain just the way it is, I won”t edit it much, this will just be a test post for now. I am trying to make it as long as I can, while I can. So I will just babble on and on and on…

I am just testing the blog features here now. Hopefully this will be bold.

And hopefully these will be seperate paragraphs!