I have been fiddling with Joomla for the most part of this day when I should have been doing something else entirely. It is driving me effing crazy.

I'm usually quite good at following examples, and figuring what I need to do to get something going. But this bloody thing has me stumped. I apparently changed something somewhere in one of the modules, and for the life of me can't figure out what it was, or how to change it back. I've been going over documentation, reading the posts at the forums, and googling for answers, but I cannot find one piece of advice that would apply to my situation.

The template I liked is here and it's a template I was going to use for the mag7 site, after I changed the images (since the layout seems very close to my original site). However, after installing that and two other templates, I changed something to make another template closer to the preview image, but when I went back to this one, everything was broken. The green header area was completely gone, and I couldn't get it back no matter what I tried. I deleted all articles and categories in a true fit of rage (haven't had those in a long, long time. It felt cathartic.) but that of course didn't solve my problem. It probably even made it worse.

Is there anyone out there who has any experience with this blasted thing? I'm sure it works great once you set it up, I just can't figure out how to get it to that point.

Just a quick note to let you know that I'll be attending the Interliber Book Fair in Zagreb for the next three days, and I don't know if I'll have access to a computer. I'm meeting some publishers to discuss possible new textbooks for our students. It doesn't hurt that there will be loads and loads of BOOKS! around.

There goes my plan of making one wallpaper for each day of NaBloPoMo. :(

I still have some WiPs going, though.

...which was supposed to be posted last night, but I didn't finish it until after midnight. I have others to post, but they're still WiPs. They will see the light of day eventually.

My second NaBloPoMo. This is cutting it close, right?

I have two wallpapers for you tonight. I haven't spent too much time on them, as I just wanted to create something. It took maybe 35 minutes, and I usually spent an hour or more on a single wallpaper.

Red



The Past. Sarah and Adam are important to Chris, so I thought it was time for them to get their own wallpaper.

I'm awake at an ungodly hour, because I'm having pre-exam jitters. I finished my database yesterday, and my exam is tomorrow.

So I've been trying to cure my jitters by making some new art. Yes, I made something new, and all I needed was a challenge of providing Magnificent Seven banners for the 2009 Recathon. I made eight total: one for each of the boys, and one of all seven.

( I present to you, for your viewing pleasure:... )

pezgirl7 just took part in the icons! meme, and prompted my trip down the memory lane when I saw on of her icons based on the behind-the-scenes photos of the regular and recurring actors.

I checked with Pez, and she said she doubted there would be any issues in uploading the photos to an LJ album, so I did:
Mag7 Behind the Scenes for those of you who haven't seen it before.

View other pictures here and here on TrekEarth (and of course you can follow links to other pages).

This morning, when I tried to open my website control panel to make some changes, I found the whole thing gone. Some googling a while later and I discovered that some users abused the service and the ISP shut it down with no warning, taking all the websites and data there down. It came as a shock to the host owner who wasn't notified either.

This means that I will have to correct all the links that show my website as http://mag7wallpapers.com/index.html to http://mag7wallpapers.isgreat.org/index.html, another host I was trying out but didn't like as well as ATBHost. Even though I'm a complete noob, the owner and the people on the forum always treated me with respect, and patiently explained everything I didn't understand. I'm sorry to see it go due to disrespects and abuse by some of the hostees. Shame.

If you linked to me somewhere using my domain, mag7wallpapers.com (I lost that too!) can you please change it to mag7wallpapers.isgreat.org? Thank you; and I'll crosspost this to groups I'm a member of.

I just entered the fanart50 challenge here on Dreamwidth! I know, I must be crazy, with all the stuff that's happening now. But I couldn't help myself!

I am really looking forward to doing this! It will be quite a challenge, similar to what I have going on 7men1destiny, but not quite since this is strictly fanart, and the fact that I'm going to draw the boys (and maybe even some of the townspeople). It will probably be a year-long project.

I'm going to be posting the results here, with notices on LJ about any new drawings I upload. Any comments should be left here, just so I liven this place up a little.