Galaxy s3 mini disaster

After trying to access the Android recovery console I was confronted with the fact it did not exist. I sent a Cynagenmod rom to the Kernel using Odin. It seemed to work, but after a further reboot the dreaded message denoting firmware error. 

I thought that by downloading a ROM but using Kies recovery was the answer using the emergency recovery utility. This flashed the existing ROM into touch. Then installed the system back fresh. Using a google account I was within an hour do what a download could never do. I think modding is not in my league as they always seem to go wrong.