- Nov 2, 2007
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To start off with I suppose some background story is in order.
I am a college student studying Computer Science and have background in Visual Basic .Net, C++, Java, HTML (just html), some javascript, and some SQL (Microsoft SQL).
So I am fairly familiar with object oriented programming languages and can usually pick up new ones fairly quickly.
In any case I have been futzing around with my own personal website (www.caffeinesystems.com) for a couple years now, never really getting anywhere.
My first attempt at creating my own website I took on the ambitious project of creating an entire web portal myself. That is what I spent my senior year of highschool and most of the following summer doing. I wrote it in ASP.net with a Microsoft SQL server database. At the end of that summer I realized how much my effort sucked. It looked bad, had numerous bugs and as I looked back on the earlier code I realized that I would need to do a complete re-write in order to be happy with it, needless to say I quickly lost interest.
Then college started and I kinda forgot about working on my website. However, in the past year or so I have started to think it would be nice to have my own website where I can showcase some of the programming projects I have worked on.
In the time since highschool I have played around with some website frameworks and realized that is the way I should go. I should find a website framework (Drupal, phpnuke, Joomla, Wordpress, something) that I can use for my website.
I have tried Joomla, Wordpress, and Drupal and here are my thoughts on each:
I would like to learn how to create my own theme so that I can have a greater deal of control making the website look like I want it to without all the work of writing a complicated backend for the website, however I dont know much PHP (aka none) and MySQL is just different enough from MS SQL server to confuse me, not to mention that fact its been almost 3 years since I really, trully, used SQL server.
So, does anyone here have any favorite website frame work, content management system, or know of where I can look (forums, ect...) for more information on this?
I am a college student studying Computer Science and have background in Visual Basic .Net, C++, Java, HTML (just html), some javascript, and some SQL (Microsoft SQL).
So I am fairly familiar with object oriented programming languages and can usually pick up new ones fairly quickly.
In any case I have been futzing around with my own personal website (www.caffeinesystems.com) for a couple years now, never really getting anywhere.
My first attempt at creating my own website I took on the ambitious project of creating an entire web portal myself. That is what I spent my senior year of highschool and most of the following summer doing. I wrote it in ASP.net with a Microsoft SQL server database. At the end of that summer I realized how much my effort sucked. It looked bad, had numerous bugs and as I looked back on the earlier code I realized that I would need to do a complete re-write in order to be happy with it, needless to say I quickly lost interest.
Then college started and I kinda forgot about working on my website. However, in the past year or so I have started to think it would be nice to have my own website where I can showcase some of the programming projects I have worked on.
In the time since highschool I have played around with some website frameworks and realized that is the way I should go. I should find a website framework (Drupal, phpnuke, Joomla, Wordpress, something) that I can use for my website.
I have tried Joomla, Wordpress, and Drupal and here are my thoughts on each:
- Drupal - my latest examination, so far its been confusing as hell, a pain in the arse to configure, and only seems to have surface level configuration options (I cant configure how it sends emails, and it keeps failing to find my hosts SMTP server)
- Joomal - Configuration options spilling out of its ass to the point where my head starts to spin, might go back to it though.
- Wordpress - To simplified for what I was looking for.
I would like to learn how to create my own theme so that I can have a greater deal of control making the website look like I want it to without all the work of writing a complicated backend for the website, however I dont know much PHP (aka none) and MySQL is just different enough from MS SQL server to confuse me, not to mention that fact its been almost 3 years since I really, trully, used SQL server.
So, does anyone here have any favorite website frame work, content management system, or know of where I can look (forums, ect...) for more information on this?