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Posts tagged mojoPortal
Free CSS Starter Sheet For Your Own mojoPortal Themes / Skins
Jun 7th
Hey all
I’ve put together a bit of a starter CSS stylesheet for you to use within your own mojoPortal themes and skins.
I was putting this together for a colleague to start building a mojoPortal theme and decided to make it available for you all to download for free. It contains the basic and most common elements for starting your mojoPortal skins / themes and includes comments to tell you what’s included and what isn’t.
It’s by no means the most comprehensive stylesheet out there, but if you’re looking at starting your own mojoPortal theme / skin from scratch based on an existing More >
mojoPortal Skin Design – mojo’s Dynamic Columns Explained
May 17th
Joe Audette over at mojoPortal, along with an every growing and uber friendly community, are delivering a continually progressive and top quality web application framework for web designers like me to create functional, and impressive .NET based CMS systems around. Creating mojoPortal skins is an enjoyable and rewarding task, resulting in some fantastically functional websites for clients.
We’ve created a few skins now and one of the main reasons we choose mojoPortal over many other CMS frameworks is for the layout flexibility it provides; you aren’t ever restricted to a one, two or even three column layout; with some clever coding by More >
mojoPortal 2.3.4.2 Released – And A New mojoPortal Skin For Integral Network Solutions
Apr 14th
Hey guys, been a bit quiet on the blog front this end; sorry! We’re developing a few new products which is taking up a lot of time, no excuse though I know :0)
Anyhoo…… Just a quick note to let you know that mojoPortal 2.3.4.2 has now been released. According to Joe Audette it’s a bug fix release but it does also incorporate the move to Visual Studio 2010 which was recently released by Microsoft.
And, on a similar note; congratulations to Integral Network Solutions for whom we have just upgraded their previous structured cabling specialists website to a mojoPortal install.
Lovely job :0)
More >mojoPortal vs DotNetNuke vs Umbraco
Mar 25th
I’ve just been doing some research on the various CMS products out there for .Net developers. This is something I do frequently just to keep upto date wth the developments out there.
I just came across a brilliant little few paragraphs by Ramto who takes a very high level yet informative look at mojoPortal vs DotNetNuke vs Umbraco.
Check it out, it’s a brilliant read and provides some useful insight into which .Net CMS is the best for a small website.
mojoPortal Now Supported By Artisteer
Feb 26th
Joe Audette has recently announced the fantastic news that mojoPortal skins are now compatible with Artisteer.
Over on the mojoPortal blog Joe mentions that a couple of Artisteer designs are actually included as skins in the new release.
For anyone unfamiliar with Artisteer it’s a fantastic licensed product which allows you to build a web design using a drag and drop interface; adding advanced elements and navigations with ease.
Artisteer then allows you to export your design in a variety of instantly compatible formats for some of the most popular web platforms out there, including WordPress, Joomla and now mojoPortal.
It’s a double edged sword More >
mojoPortal Skins Get Friendly New Admin Menu
Feb 8th
Having designed a few mojoPortal skins for clients, it’s always been a tough call when deciding what to do with the admin links.
Previously you had two choices out of the box:
- Text links
- Icon links
Both of these methods work great functionally but present different issues; icons are fantastic for squeezing into mojoPortal skins, they’re unobtrusive and look clear and precise. However, to a less tech oriented user they can be a little unclear and you have to hover for a tooltip to see the link description.
The text link option on the other hand provides a quick and clear look at exactly what each More >
