Image slideshow and Google Analytics
Have to say that pushing Image Slideshow up onto the Joomla! extensions site was an interesting exercise, didn’t think it was quite ready but as I had just updated this site with a new plaything… Google Analytics, I wanted to see what would happen.
As much as I love and hate Google, they are the biggest web search engine around and have free and interesting tools to see what is happening with your website. Lots of interesting statistics which I have yet to understand the meaning behind but one simple one was very interesting.
60% of the people who came to the site use FireFox, 30% on IE, the other 10% on Opera, Safari and Mozilla and some other obscure or niche browsers. I know the audience for J! is kinda skewed towards the technical types like myself but a 2:1 in favour of Firefox was a little surprising to me… or maybe I just need to get out more!
PHP and JavaScript - books and first impressions
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
Professional Joomla! (Programmer to Programmer)
are the first books I’ve bought to help me get started coding.
Haven’t had a detailed read yet, but the O’Reilly “The Definitive Guide” series have served me well in the non-web world so should be good here too.
Have been playing with the simple examples in the first chapters of each book,just to get familar with the coding and looks like there is nothing too odd from a structure or logic point of view. Dealing with HTML and the webworld may hold some surprises but haven’t gotten that far yet.
Of course to actually play with PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript you need to have a webserver and MySQL installed. Turns out this are really simple and easy to install on your own machine. Will write up my experiences of those soon.
What to do?
As mentioned before, my goal is to become conversant (hopefully proficient!) in web technologies. I’ve a lot to learn and understand. For me the best way to learn Read more
Get IT - WAMP (Windows Apache MySQL PHP)
One of the prerequistes for doing any web development is of course to have a webserver! For development purposes it is best to have this on your own machine, that way you can play and make mistakes without impacting anything ‘real’.
The most commmon webserver is Apache according to Netcraft survey on Web Servers , its also Open Source which is nice. What is also very convienient is that you can download easy to install versions of Apache, PHP and MySQL for Windows (WAMP!) .
The good folks over at WampServer have one such package. Essentially you download, execute the install package, follow the simple instuctions and there you have it, a fully functional webserver and database with PHP supported with minimal effort.
Briask- Minor update to ImageSlideShow
- OK Computer! Just start already…
- What a to-do about what to do!
- Final Fantasy - take a listen.
- Return from Vacation!
- How to write a Joomla! 1.5 module.
- ImageSlideShow for Joomla! 1.5.x
- Image Slide Show and resizing images.
- Joomla! and more Music I Like
- Bug fixing for ImageSlideShow