The HTML5mojo project is continuing to progress as more desings are contributed. Today we'd like to thank our friends at i7MEDIA who have released their second contribution to the project by adding the Mocha skin.

Check out the Mocha skin demo site which explains some of the features of the skin and has a download link. Its another beautiful design that shows what is possible with mojoPortal. Huge kudos to i7MEDIA for sharing this with the community!

Back in July we announced the HTML5mojo project to get more designers involved with creating nice skins for the community that show the possibilities with mojoPortal content management system. Since then we've had a nice contribution of the Swift Blue skin from i7MEDIA and this month we are happy to announce another new skin named Hi 5 from our friends at GloriaTech that has been contributed to the HTML5mojo project.

You can check it out on their Hi5 demo site and you can download it from the html5mojo download page.

Big thanks to GloriaTech for their contribution! We hope the continued progress with this project will inspire more designers to get involved.

In a recent post I mentioned the new HTML 5 Skins project for mojoPortal which is aimed at getting more designers involved to produce nice modern skins for the mojoPortal community. Our friends at i7MEDIA have contributed their first skin, "Swift Blue", to the project and have setup a nice demo web site with intsructions and tips for using the Swift Blue skin.

I really like the very clean calendar styling of this skin.

Huge thanks to the i7MEDIA team for sharing this nice new skin with the mojoPortal Community! They also have some more skins in their pipeline that they plan to share soon, so stay tuned for more announcements in the near future. I'd like to encourage more designers to contribute and share and hope this gets the ball rolling.

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I mentioned in our mojoPortal 2.3.9.0 release annoucement that we would soon be announcing a new project to get more designers involved with mojoPortal. This project is now on Codeplex at html5mojo.codeplex.com. We welcome any designers who would like to participate in this project to help showcase the design possibilities of mojoPortal CMS using HTML 5. You can read more about the goals and rationale for the project on the codeplex page, and contact me if you would like commit access to our Mercurial repository to add and evolve your own skins and designs. Or if you are not familiar or comfortable using Mercurial you can send the files to me and I will add them to the project. You can find participation guidelines here.

In mojoPortal CMS design is completely de-coupled from functionality so it can be styled in almost limitless ways by good designers. However, in spite of this, people often judge mojoPortal CMS by the included skins and since the few skins that we have been shipping with mojoPortal are created by developers who are not designers we believe that the included skins have not presented mojoPortal in its best light. Therefore we invite/beg real designers to get involved with this project to help produce some really nice looking modern HTML 5 skins for mojoPortal. We need your help!

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Any mojoPortal community members in or near Raleigh, North Carolina?

I'll be attending IndieConf on Saturday November 19, 2011 in Raleigh, NC. IndieConf is a small conference for independent web developers and designers, freelancers and entrepreneurs. I'll be participating in a panel discussion about transitioning from a consulting business to a product sales business. It was kind of a last minute thing so I'm not scheduled for any presentations about mojoPortal, but I'll be hanging out and attending various sessions in addition to the panel I'll be participating in. I'd certainly enjoy getting to meet some mojoPortal community members there.

If you are in the area and interested in attending contact me (joe dot audette at g mail dotcom). I can give the the first 3 people who contact me a discount code for free admission, and after those are gone I can give any number of people a discount code for $30 off the registration fee.

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