I just sent off my CV to another company a few minutes ago. I have to say this one I actually feel pretty good about. After looking at there website and after seeing what they do I can safely say I would love to be part of there team. I’m not just saying this because I hope that they are reading this, but I have sent off my CV to many company’s in the last few days but I have a funny feeling about this one. Can’t explain it.

I actually found the job advertised on Saturday but decided to wait till today to apply. I spent some of the weekend reading through their website, and searching for anything else I could find about the company. It would be great if I got the job as its only 1 bus away from me. Most of the other jobs I get agencies asking me about are around London or Bristol. not only is it close to me but I think it would be a great start to my career that so far hasn’t even began.

I ‘d like to think if I got this job I would be able to start to move on with my life (find a place to live etc). So wish me luck, i’ll be crossing my fingers till I get a response.

This week I am going to be creating the last few themes for my Christmas project, I am hoping they will all be done in time. If not then tough, I will just have to change my project ever so slightly. If any interviews are arranged they will take priority.

Sorry for the lack of updates the last few days but I have been busy job hunting, so far so good. Tomorrow morning I will be sending my CV off to a few company’s along with some extra’s they have asked for, like list’s of websites I have worked on and what my role was etc etc…

I am hoping this time I will a job, if not at least some good feedback. Former company’s I have applied for and gotten interviews I haven’t been that impressed with either 1. The interviewer, or 2. The bloody weather.

The last interview I went to had to be on a day it snowed, so I went to get the train to get to the interview and ended up with delay after delay. I got there in the end and I don’t think they were to pleased even with the weather. Then I was told to create a design for one of there clients, I was given certain instructions and completed the task and sent it off. I even got the receipt back saying it had been received. Then 2 - 3 weeks later get the job agency on the phone asking why I hadn’t sent the design to them. Wasn’t very impressed, sent it again and didn’t even get a peep out of them.

All I am asking for this time is either a job or some feedback, letting me know why I didn’t get the job, what I need to improve on etc. Is that so much to ask?

OK rant over, hopefully in the next day or two you will be seeing some screenshot’s of some upcoming e107 themes I will be releasing. If all goes well, if I don’t make a post I might be busy with interviews. *Fingers Crossed*

Feel free to share you job interview stories in comment section of this post.

Carrying on from yesterdays post explaining what e107 is, I have decided to carry on writing about e107 to create a series of posts taking you through parts of e107. This post will focus on the admin area.

The admin area is the main hub of an e107 site, this is where you add content, change settings and well quite alot of neat stuff really. Too much to explain here.

At the bottom of this post you will see a selection of thumbnails, click on them to view bigger images. They are all screenshots taken of e107 just after installation.

Screenshot 1 : This screenshot shows you what the Admin Frontpage looks like. This is the hub of your site, from here you can change every aspect of your site including adding plugins in the Plugin Manager, and changing themes in the Theme manager. Once you install e107 most users then go into the preferences to change things like site name etc…

Screenshot 2 : This screenshot shows you e107’s Preferences, here you start changing how your site works, whether people can register, what questions are asked on signup, enable flood protection and a lot more.

Screenshot 3 : This screenshot shows how easy it is to create pages for your site, simple type what you want your page to say and then change the settings to what you want and simply click Create Page.

Hopefully this has given you some idea of what e107’s backend looks like and how easy it is to use.

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