App testing, server administration, template modifications, oh my!

Digilogue have been part of the development of an online fantasy football/betting app. Last week, testing began for the app. This involved going into the app on various platforms and finding out what worked, what didn't, and reporting any errors via Mantis Bug Tracker. Each error had to be reported in order of priority and assigned to a member of the team to be fixed. I took screenshots of the errors and added a detailed description so that the errors could be fixed in a timely fashion.

Another project was the migration of a website from one Joomla template to another. This involved analysing all of the modules and module positions, finding out where content was in the original template, and moving it to the new template. This was quite confusing at times, as I had to continually publish and unpublish each template, and ensure that whichever template was live at that point in time had all of the necessary content. It was necessary to copy over some modules and place them in different positions, and to unpublish some content. It's quite difficult to explain but actually a pretty simply task. This is the site with the older template:

And the site with the new template:

This week I also did a lot of server administration. One of the sites on the server had a .htaccess file with bad content - the redirects were actually sending the user to pages that didn't exist, resulting in a 404 error. I had to find these and remove the offending links. I also had to administer Joomla core updates to several of the sites. This involved changing the permissions on these sites from 0755 to 0777 (Read, Write and Execute permissions given to all users), going in to the Joomla back end and administering the update, and then changing the permissions back for security reasons. This resulted in websites with the latest Joomla updates.