Sunday, February 24, 2008

Joomla is weird, but I'm getting to like Snowsnake

This week I put some time into learning some Joomla. I was not the one who changed the header to "Company Name", but I like it. I think it ties in well with our theme. Most of what I did was experiment in uploading content. I erased all of this stuff (because it wasnt really relevent to the project), but I did accomplish embedding a You Tube video onto the site. Check it out. I'm not sure if the game depicted in the video is equivalent with the one being used in Northern Minnesota (I'm sure there are variations), but it does a good job in describing the game and showing people playing it.

A few questions did arise:
1. Are we going to call the game "Snow Snakes", "Snow Snake", or "Snowsnakes". I've seen the game entitled all three ways on the net and it would probably be good for our project if we all use the same term. I noticed this blog is entitled "Snow Snakes", so maybe we should just stick with that.
2. Everything I've posted goes into the Blog section on our Joomla site. Even if I assign the sections News or Newsflash, it lands in the Blog section. It might be because I begin with the content manager each time. I'm not sure on that one yet.
3. Joomla Explorer does not run on my computer. Each time I fire it up, it sends me to the logon page. I then logon, but then it takes me back to the Home page of the Administrator sitean d I still can't use Explorer. Anyone have success with this?

That's all I got thus far. I can see many mathematical possibilities for our curriculum and will probably get started on that soon.

1 comment:

Rukiye Kahraman said...

I changed the template, but I could not edit it. I wanted to put the title "Snow Snakes" but I could not. I am still trying...