K2 Extension for Joomla

Yesterday I got an answer in the Joomla forums that recommended K2 as a solution for the personalized blog aspect ot my site. The demo video on the K2 site got me intrigued. It had all the kinds of things most blogs need such as socialbookmarking, tag clouds (although not as nifty looking as Joomulous), and commentary complete with CAPCHA. Overall, K2 acts like a mini-Joomla inside Joomla.

Speaking of that, it was nice that the categories I could set for my blogs could be seperate from the sections/category madness of the original in-the-box Joomla. Overall, it helped me decrypt some of the logic behind the Joomla interface that drives me crazy. Yes, Drupal spoiled me with how changes for something are always in one single place.

I am still left with a few questions and things to troubleshoot:

• Can I promote featured K2 items to the front page? Where does the category template "blog" comes from? How do I add more? (see screenshot below)
• Glitch: Social bookmarking symbols dont show up even if I have enabled them
• Glitch: Clicking on a K2 item's individual page leaves me with an entry devoid of a stylesheet. This happens no matter which of the Joomla starter templates that I use. (see screenshot below)

Still want to give this extension a chance. It might be the closest to blogging Im going to get.

My Current Challenge

Simple and sweet, this is my goal for the individual product page. Was hoping to use fieldgroup tabs module but it baffles me on how it will be done. JQuery and JQueryUI are my next stops. I see some explanation on it but it covers Views, which is a bit foreign to me. Maybe I should look at that first.

Will be doing a manual recreation of my work on a live server in the next few days before and during my vacation/excursion. Yeah, I could of imported/exported the database but it would keep me from getting what I already learned further set into my head by doing it all over again.