Who writes the code for the Forum pages?

[Ephrum]

One of the classes I have this quarter is Web Site management. So the class all have our own Web page that we will work on during the quarter. Ohio University is our ISP. We are learning html code, cascading stylesheets, and style attributes, and have to check our code with a validator, and our css page with a css validator. Overwhelming, but unexpected fun as well.

I looked at the Open Source code for both SOW and MMG websites, and was amazed by the amount of code in them. I understand why so much, but due to the amount I was curious to know if Norb or one of the other team members wrote it, or does someone write it to your needs?

[norb]

All of the stuff that I use on the sites is open source. I did not write it, but it still takes a lot of time to get it working.

Joomla is the portal software, or the OS of the website
Kunena is the forum

Now the SOW site is written by Louie Raider. He does that all himself. I wrote most of the MMG site, but the board used phpBB.

Most of the work that you describe I do in my day job. I work on sports games, so we output a lot of stats. We create Team Yearbooks, full box scores, lots of fun stuff like that. It's a great skill to learn, but with so much code on the web today, you can't stop at just html. You need to get into javascript, and this site is php.

Javascript is code that runs on the clients machine
php is code that runs on the web server and outputs the html/javascript to the client

Just saying that it's a great start what you are doing, but to really know how to create a site, you've got a few steps next.

[Ephrum]

norb wrote:

Just saying that it's a great start what you are doing, but to really know how to create a site, you've got a few steps next.

Don't I know it! And I'm only into the third week of the class. This is my first experience with code. I'll settle for the small steps approach. If I had looked at your open source code three weeks ago, it would've made no sense at all. Now there is a level of understanding. It's just a lot of fun learning new things.


Thanks for the response.