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mojoPortal
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mojoPortal Skins Tutorial – Getting Started With mojoPortal Themes
Aug 11th
Building Your Own mojoPortal Skins and mojoPortal Themes
Author’s note: I started writing this last year but never got the time to publish it out. The steps herein are still valid but Joe Audette has added some cracking new features to mojoPortal since then, so I recommend you head over to the mojoPortal blog to stay up to date.
mojoportal is a .NET driven CMS system developed by a great developer & personable guy, Joe Audette; and supported by a friendly and knowledgeable community. If you’re a regular reader of my blog you’ll know that I post quite frequently regarding development and tidbits More >
mojoPortal Mobile Skins Become Much More Functional
Jul 12th
Creating mojoPortal Mobile Skins Becomes More Fun From Today
Joe Audette over at mojoPortal has just released a brand new mojoPortal add on for creating mojoPortal Mobile Skins called “Mobile Kit Pro“.
The release comes in tandem with mojoPortal release 2.3.6.7 and with the addition of mojoPortal mobile skinning as a “native” feature, the (buzz word warning) responsive nature of mojoPortal’s design takes an even greater leap.
For anyone used to working with mojoPortal I’d highly recommend heading over and checking the new features out and as ever, Joe and the community welcomes feedback on the mojoPortal Mobile Kit Pro product.
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Creating A Secured Client Area With mojoPortal (Tutorial)
May 9th
Securing certain portions of your website using mojoPortal
This is something that I get asked a lot by clients, so figured I’d pop a short and snappy tutorial up on how to do it.
Here’s the scenario:
Can we create an area for each of our clients where we can upload their private PDFs / documents ready for them to sign in and download?
You sure can, and the process can be broken down into a few simple steps:
- Create a relevant user role for the client to be a part of (this could be your client’s company name)
- Create a specific user account that More >
Repost: It’s Christmas, stop working!
Dec 29th
Happy Xmas everyone!
A few people on the Twitter thing have seen a little personal blog post that I’ve put very recently about trying to stop work over Xmas; this cohort of obviously very bored people have said I should post an link to the post on the business blog here too as a lot of the freelance guys / small business owners are feeling it too.
Actually, most of this post is me ranting about being ill, but one short paragraph applies to the guys mentioned above:
Here’s the real kicker – having a few days off actually feels like a waste of time More >
New Web Design Launch For Sheffield Steel Fabrication Company, MTL Group Ltd
Nov 9th
Congratulations to MTL Group Ltd who are celebrating the launch of their new mojoPortal driven website.
The site is running an array of custom skins incorporating a fully editable 4 column layout, along with the capacity to edit all footer elements; this on top of a custom job board written for mojoPortal. Oh, the site is also rockin’ some awesome CSS3!
Thanks to the staff at MTL for the hard word they’ve put in, and congratulations again to all involved!
This is a Barnsley web design project from The Design Loft.
LDA – On Page Content As A Secret SEO Weapon?
Sep 15th
I’ve been reading through a fantastic blog post over at SEOmoz looking at the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) correlation with SEO, in particular on page SEO work.
It’s a hefty post that looks at how Google speculatively interprets words and their meaning based on the context in which they are used.
I’ve always been a believer in writing for your audience; believing that anyone who writes their web pages in this way will will achieve long term search engine success. If it is true that Google not only looks at the words you use (keywords) but also the context in which More >
