I’ve been having a bit of a journey lately, implementing sites with Wordpress, CMSMS and Joomla. All very different from our Content Manager at work. The latest I’m working with is Joomla. I’m testing it to see if it does the job as a CMS for my gamesites. I’m redoing PayneReactor, WakeReactor and adding a new site or two to my list.

The install went reasonably well, needed to contact host a few times, but in the end got it installed. I was looking at extensions and found a nice plugin, JCE. Installing that though I ran into two errors.

JFTP::store: Bad response Warning! – Failed to move file and some related errors later. I stumbled over many tips, make sure the FTP settings in Global config / Server was correct was one of them. Disable the FTP. Nothing helped.

What solved it in the end was a tip from a user in the Joomla forums. Look at the path in the Media manager, and make sure the config path for log and tmp directories is the same one. Sweet, but so far the first CMS which uses full paths that I’ve encountered.

So far Joomla in my opinion lacks serious support for rich article content and images. That’s what I’m hoping the extensions can solve for me. Many extensions seem to cost money, but not that much. It may be that I end up using it for my sites, we’ll see.

The program IETester has turned into a quite usable product. Highly recommended for testing purposes as you can test in IE6 and below, as well as IE7 and IE8 in the same program. Really valuable for anyone that needs to test pages for the mainstream visitors, which are most of us.

Go to download page of IETester

Most of my car photography is naturally from my own cars, and I really didn’t take any great shots of my previous car. I did take some shots last summer of my current car, but didn’t spend much time doing it, so didn’t get it done properly, but still think they came out okay.

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