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Okay, so yesterday I finished my TAFE course. All assessments handed in and everything sorted out. Best thing is, I think i’ve pretty much got Distinctions in everything (pitty they don’t offer High Distinctions though, because i would have had a lot of them too.)

I also received an email this morning in regards to my User Documentation assignment which was due on Friday..

Hi Chris,

Congratulations on your FANTASTIC work. You received full marks for your project. Total score for 3651A 99%. I wish you all the best for next semester. Colleen

C Anderson

I felt pretty proud about that. The assignment (documentation) on RedHat 7.2/KDE/StarOffice can be seen here Linux User Documentation.pdf (Requires Acrobat/PDF Reader, obviously)

In the coming days I’ll be writing a fair bit about MyBB and the changes tot he product we’re making in terms of input validation, security and things like that- there are some big changes we’re going to be making.

Okay, you want to know where I’ve been the past week? I’ve been doing lots and lots of annoying TAFE work which is all due this week. Right now I have two tasks due on Thursday and one due on Friday. Maybe after i’ve finished them i’ll upload them here.

The assignments i’ve had and still have in the past week (struck-out indicates completed assignments)

• Work Efficiently in the IT Environment (Report + PowerPoint Presentation/Speech)
• Project 2005 Nalocks Pty Ltd (Had to design database, spreadsheets, and lots of templates, plus PowerPoint Presentation)
• Network Upgrade Proposal Report – (Report + 10 Minute Speech/PowerPoint Presentation)
• Expansion of Project 2005 Nalocks (Automating tasks using Macro’s, VBA and things like user needs analysis)
• Linux User Documentation (RedHat Installation, Overview of Linux, KDE Configuration, Installing and Using Star Office – All very detailed)

After that hopefully everything should be complete and I won’t have to go next week (the last week of the course) because it is resubmit week.

Right, now its back to stuffing about with annoying VBA.

In a bit of my spare time I’ve also been designing the redesign of the MyBB website and have done a small amount of work on MyBB Gold. More on all of that later though

Okay, I sat down with exactly what I had in mind for the menu design for the template i’m currently using (see the post below if you haven’t already read it) and eventually I had a Photoshop mockup. Since then it’s taken a while to get it to work in both Internet Explorer and Firefox just how I wanted it (not to mention me rewriting how the template works).

It’s now in place above and should be working in both IE and Firefox. If it isn’t working for you, in whatever browser, let me know.

For now I’ve left the menu on the right just incase anyone can’t use the one above.

Now, back to sorting out the problem with IE and the contact page..

Normally I wouldn’t use a template for a piece of software, I’d rather create my own with my own look and feel to it as it gives my website (or whatever i’m working on for that matter) a touch of me. However, this time it is different..

Don’t get be wrong, Kubrick is one slick and easy to work with design, however there is only so much Kubrick I can put up with – and me using the same design doesn’t help as i’m not being different, just apart of that huge mass of users now using Kubrick.

At the moment, i’m way too busy to finish my new design (which i’m not too fond of anymore anyway). I have TAFE assignments, MyBB and a whole load of other things in my life now and even though I would like my own site to have it’s own design I just don’t have the time to complete it. Hopefully that will change.

I’ve decided now to install and use the Green Marinée WordPress template by Ian Main for this site as I think it’s a pretty awesome WordPress theme and in some ways I think it suits me well. No blue again either!

Right now i’m still playing with a few things with the theme and adding back my old things such as the Recent Activity and Recently on Flickr (Which reminds me, I have a few new photos to upload!) and just some general tweaking with the CSS to be rid of the things I don’t like too much in the theme and to personalise it a bit more. Right now i’m deciding if I should move the menu to the top of the layout (under the logo, or maybe above?) from where it is over on the right..