Long Short Week

Looking back, this week seems to have gone by fast. Of course that's usually how I see things looking back. Even the years since high school seem to have flown by. But this week felt a little slow while I was in it still.

It was very difficult not to get frustrated this week while at work. First we looked for a template for the site. I can't remember if Ashley explained what these are in a previous post, so I'll do my best to explain it here. The way Joomla (the software we're using to create the site) work is by placing articles in a page, and whatever other things you want to have in the page, called modules, in to things called positions. The positions are a huge deal to us, because they determine where we can place things on the page. The templates we looked for were all free, and there's a very good reason they are all free. The positions in the templates are not in the best places, and there are very few of them; there's maybe 6 or 7 of them. So we tried all week to get a free template to do what we wanted, when finally friday we were able to access the ones that OM already had, and VOILA! there was one we liked the look of, and it wasn't originally free so it had something like 60 positions. Perfect. But that was friday, so for 4 days we struggled with that free one.

The second thing that was frustrating about this week was finding the 'modules' that we needed to do the things we wanted. But we could only use free ones... Now, free modules tend to be better than free templates, so it wasn't too bad. But they do still have their problems. We were using one module all week because it did what we wanted and looked pretty good. But we got to friday and had to place it in the main page with the new template and it seemed like it was eating the other positions around it. The modules that we placed around it appeared behind or inside of it. So we ended up having to scrap it and find a different one. Fortunately we found one that works well and it only took around 10 minutes. 

So the better part of the week was a little slow, and annoying. But friday was really refreshing, and gave me new confidence for the beginning of next week. God is helping us with this. It may seem weird that God would need to help build a web site, but satan wants to do everything he can to keep us from making a good site that brings people to OM. So, when I say God is helping us I mean it, we couldn't do it without him. We couldn't have even gotten here, let alone raise enough money for the trip. 

One a lighter note, I managed to cook my own breakfast today. 3 fried eggs, that could have been better, and two pieces of toast that I toasted in my brand new toaster oven. An oven that I got at a yard sale for $30 new still in all of the packaging. Looked online and it goes for $70 usually, so I think I got a pretty good deal. After this summer I should be able to survive on my own cooking, with a little help from the internet and Ashley =)