Ostiant or Chalenduin

I have been fiddling with Joomla for the most part of this day when I should have been doing something else entirely. It is driving me effing crazy.

I'm usually quite good at following examples, and figuring what I need to do to get something going. But this bloody thing has me stumped. I apparently changed something somewhere in one of the modules, and for the life of me can't figure out what it was, or how to change it back. I've been going over documentation, reading the posts at the forums, and googling for answers, but I cannot find one piece of advice that would apply to my situation.

The template I liked is here and it's a template I was going to use for the mag7 site, after I changed the images (since the layout seems very close to my original site). However, after installing that and two other templates, I changed something to make another template closer to the preview image, but when I went back to this one, everything was broken. The green header area was completely gone, and I couldn't get it back no matter what I tried. I deleted all articles and categories in a true fit of rage (haven't had those in a long, long time. It felt cathartic.) but that of course didn't solve my problem. It probably even made it worse.

Is there anyone out there who has any experience with this blasted thing? I'm sure it works great once you set it up, I just can't figure out how to get it to that point.

I've been working on my website these past couple of days, and setting up a blog I could use to post my new attempts at drawing. Since both hosts I'm testing have a WordPress installer, I thought, What the heck, and went with it. While the website looks the same at both locations, the blog does not. I only had time to upload my three drawings on one of them, DJ Aida's Corner. Feel free to look around and leave comments if it suits you.

I'm also working on new wallpapers. I can't post them yet, because they're unfinished and I have a seminar paper and then an exam to take care of, but as soon as that's out of the way, you'll be seeing some regular activity here. I can hardly wait!

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Now playing: Lucie Silvas - Last Man Standing
http://foxytunes.com/artist/lucie+silvas/track/last+man+standing

I'm working on redesigning my website. It should be live within a day or so, so I would appreciate it if you would take a look and tell me if it looks fine on both 1024x768 and higher resolutions.

I was going for a more grungy, rustic look, and I think I came close. There were some glitches that popped up occasionally, but I think I caught them all. At least I think so.

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And honestly, I have only praise for them; even though I'm not paying them, they've always answered my questions promptly and helped with setting up my site.

I intend to keep myself busy - which shouldn't be difficult since I have a seminar paper to present on Saturday, and I'm itching to make some wallpapers.

You should expect some activity on this journal soon.