Lessons & Homework Week 4

This week we dove into UNIX and MySQL. Accessing Terminal on the Mac was very easy. I had some short correspondence with Dreamhost to make sure I configured access to the command line appropriately. It all went swimmingly. I will definitely need to keep a glossary of commands for MySQL and utilize online resources. There is no way I will remember all of them, but repetition will help.
The lessons and book reading took about 2-3 hours to complete this week. The homework was started in class. It took me an additional 1.5 hours to complete because I decided to fiddle around with the CSS and nix the table the form was set into. I was having a very difficult time centering the reCaptcha iframe. It wouldn't respond to margin:0 auto; or text-align center. I was finally able to center by setting specific right and left margins. I am sure there is a better way. I didn't want to mess anything up in recaptchalib.php so I stopped playing once I got it to look ok.
The only other issue I encountered is that my template.php guts included a background image in the CSS that I didn't know how to undo for other pages in the site. So I took the image out of the CSS and put the image tag in the template.php file so it wouldn't appear in contact.php.
I dig reCaptcha and eager to add it to my own website. Hopefully will get that done tonight along with applying the php for changing title tags and highlighting the active navigation that was taught in the reading from the book. I was wondering how that was done and excited that it was included in the reading.