There was no school today. Yay!!! We had no labor day when everyone else was on vacation so this is some sort of compensation that we have. Technically, we're supposed to hike a mountain somewhere near the school called Pinnacle but I didn't go. Actually, I meant to go but I spent the whole day doing some sort of crazy needless but useful research online.
I've spent the entire day in the room (except for when I went out to grab lunch). As you probably know, I've been flirting with the idea of building a website to help Ghanaian students who want to study in the US. After doing a little online search, I decided to use
drupal. I don't know much about
open source software and so I had to depend on what other people. Infact, I don't even know how to code. What a shame. I've started learning
html here. Hopefully, I'll be able to learn the fundamentals to get along.
The first thing I tried to do when I got to
drupal was to download the latest edition. Boooh!! It didn't work. My system did not have the software to open it and so I went to microsoft to see if I could get a solution but all the stuff that showed up didn't make much sense to me. And so I went back to drupal to be a better student and take some classes. Unfortunately, it was very difficult to know how to get started. I thought that was crazy. I was looking for a place that showed me what to do step by step but found nothing like that. I tried searching for links to learning how to use the software and that wasn't much help. The only thing that I learnt from those searches is that I will need
php and
mysql to continue. There was talk about
apache and some other technological stuff that I had no clue what the meaning was. All the same, I downloaded
php and mysql.
Now, the problem is that I don't know what to do. I have even downloaded
php admin to help but it doesn't offer any clues. Obviously, this is crazier than
bravenet where all you have to do is to enter what you want to do. But I guess it's going to be worth it in the long run since it's going to a lot more functionalities than bravenet (I think) that is going to be free of charge without any annoying banners.
I'll probably have to stop now and do some homework so that I don't get behind in my classwork. French isn't going good at all and probability is not being too nice.
In the meantime, any tech savvy guy/gal out there who knows about how to install drupal and build drupal websites and use
php and mysqul should please holla and tell me what to do. Ill really appreciate any help I can get. They have a
forum for users but I feel too dumb to ask some of the question I have.
Thanks.