My next project Designer Today will be a good one, we have roughly 60,000 visitors there each month and I need an integrated forum (with site membership pri premuim access to keep spammers at bay) and to sell our tutorial DVD's and books (print and digital). MojoPortal is the perfect platform for it. ;-)

Allen

This is a great testimonial and success story and we love to hear it!

Cheers,

Joe

Poser World
http://poserworld.com/

Thanks to Joe's helpfulness and suggestions we migrated over with nearly no issues to speak of. Only a couple of users had login problems.

MojoPortal ROCKS!

Allen

We will also be migrating several other membership websites over to MojoPortal since we can now offer both Authorize.net and PayPal Express. We will post the migrated sites URL's once we've finished migrating them over.

Kudos to Joe and the PayPal Express payment option. From what I understand this option will also appear in other MojoPortal modules.

Thanks Joe!

The popularity of drag and drop got me thinking of another cool idea. If you use the latest code or the demo site with CKeditor, I've implemented support for dropping images directly into the editor. The only caveat is that the image will always be resized according to the default resize config settings and the image will be uploaded to the root folder where the user is allowed to upload, ie media folder. If one is particular about the resizing or preferred location one can still use the image dialog but it is pretty convenient to drag an image right in.

Of course as with other drag drop stuff it only works in the latest web browsers.

Best,

Joe

Keep up the good work!

I totally understand you would not want to use it, and to be honest, I started the project promising myself I would use it for everything, regardless, to force me to use it....  however, it's a horses for courses thing and it's is awesome for certain things, normally simple things... as I prefer to use the LINQ or if I really have to the QueryOver, but not the HQL syntax.  Therefore some of the really deep joined queried I just used good old SP's/Views and ADO :-)

I think with a project the size of the Mojo, if you want to be consistent and have awesome performance pure SQL is your only option.  I think a lot of people overlook using a combination of things, a bit like, why would you use httphandlers with pure markup in .NET webforms :-) I guess whatever does the job the best you use, it's never black or white.

If I get the time to do a write up it won't be for a while as my site still needs loads of contents, but I am sure it would be useful as once it's all setup as a module, it just needs an entry in web.config and then will run once at app start (I know you can't do this with modules but their is a code trick) and then you get a session open/close (lightweight) per request and you can either use a global.asax variable which obv breaks my idea or write the NH session to a ASP session value works fine too.

Cheers

Matt

Thanks for the beers! Much appreciated.

I don't have any plans to use NHibernate myself but if you'd ever be interested in authoring an article in our documentation to help devs who want to use it in their custom modules let me know, I'd be glad to setup a page for you to edit.

Cheers,

Joe

Thanks for taking a look, a lot of the work went into the betting interface and admin interface which you wont see without being registered or admin.  I kinda avoided the usual .NET controls in that area and streamed all the markup from httphandlers and use JQuery AJAX/JSON so everything loads cleanly and smoothly.

That reminds me, I don't think I have plugged Mojo anywhere on the site, I will make sure I do this weekend (prob in the footer) as your awesome work/project should be supported and recommended.

One thing you might be interested in is I have successfully integrated NHibernate for most of the DB stuff in my project and managed to get it all plugged in using modules so I don't keep overwriting your global.asax. Anyway, keep up the good work and I hope to be good enough sometime in the future to help out in the Mojo community.

Thanks

Matt

Thanks for the testimonial, glad to hear it!

Just looking at your site I would not have guessed it was using mojoPortal but I can see it is when I view the source.

Cheers,

Joe

Firstly I would like to thank you for creating such an awesome CMS and I am so glad you have stuck with using normal C# and .NET Web Controls for extending, rather than implementing a whole new framework/language that I have to learn to do anything!!

I have been using Mojo for a while and have recently moved over to the MySQL version as M$ licensing costs/models are getting ridiculous and it works perfectly too! My site doesn't have all the content moved over yet, but the new version of the competition code is there and is testament to how easy it is to extend Mojo portal with custom panels.

http://www.wisepunter.com

Thanks

Matt

Later,
Joe D.

Thanks a lot! I put a lot of effort into that and was happy about how it turned out but it is always nice to hear some positive feedback!

Cheers,

Joe

I really like how you turned what was at heart a maintenance chore (replacing an obsolete component of mojoPortal) into a true enhancement for users.

Jamie

Thanks for the shout out...

Best,

Joe

That site is pretty cool! Nice work.

Best,

Joe

If you sign in you can save daily data.

http://thefitgirls.com/calorie-tracker.aspx

Thanks Joe for all the tutorials, forum answers...

Nate

Renovation Organization of Khorramabad, Iran is Mojoportal based site with Farsi language that created in this month with Samar Software Solution.

Thanks to Joe for his good CMS

and   Joe Davis for mocha Html5 skin.

 

Please, correct Theme's name to "Russian community".

Thanks a lot.

Let me introduce my site http://mojoportal.net.ua 

I'm trying to produce Russian Community around CMS mojoportal. All articles was taking from this site and translating to Russian. If I broke copyright, please inform me.

This is third or fourth attempt of create community. Before me there were sites mojoportal.ru, mojoportal.biz and mojoportal.ooo-studio.ru. All of them were closing. I'll try that my site hasn't befallen their fate. I think that it is very important, for development mojoportal in the 1/6 land territory.

At present, was translate a small part of all articles. I'm try to translate 1-2 articles in day. But usually easier to make sense in English than to translate into Russian. If anyone in this forum has translated articles, or want to help me - welcome.

In any case, thanks a lot Joe for his Great CMS.

I forgot to mention a new site that I created with mojoPortal in November 2012.
The url is www.memoire-deportation-ain.fr
This site is partially sponsored by the General Council of the Ain.
This site is about the deportation in France in Ain Department during the 1940-1945 war.
It has 50 static pages, 1400 dynamic pages, 600 images, 150 pdf, ...
It has several custom features (link Between SQL and Google Map to show the path of the deportees, list of persons, list of documents, ...)

Actually, 1500 visits/month

You can view the page: La déportation dans l'Ain > Les camps de la mort > Buchenwald.
This page has 3 custom features.

You can view a other page: Rechercher un déporté, then write MORIN in the first Textbox and click on Rechercher par nom.
A list will show the persons with matching name. Click on 'MORIN dit Chr De Gourbe Paul'.
This action opne a page who give all informations about Paul Morin.
You can see his career since his arrest until his release
Below another module displays all documents that match.

Several other modules are used to fill these documents (with the creation of thumbnails).

Thank you to Joe and mojoPortal which allowed me to achieve this historic site.

I placed a link to mojoPortal on the footer.

Christian ALLEMAND

www.esoft-studio.fr

My own site can be found at http://www.georgekennedy.co.uk

Thanks for looking

George Kennedy

Just like Jamie, I've developed highly scalable apps on top of MojoPortal with custom features and modules around it. ivb7.com is a living example which runs on a custom built private CDN for streaming videos and serving MojoPortal sites hosted across various datacenters around the globe. Hundreds of customers are currently using it.

Plus I have a few enterprise level large scale applications coming up on MojoPortal and I'm hoping MojoPortal makes it to the enterprise too. We're with you to make this happen Joe!

Thanks.

That is a great testimonial!

I'd like to also thank you for all the help you provide to community members in these forums over the past few years!

Best,

Joe

I just wanted to drop a quick note and again thank Joe Audette for his tireless work on this great product. Any time I get a request for development to extend our sites, I know I will be able to build what we need with a minimum of fuss, and he's here providing support on the forum so often I sometimes wonder if he takes any days off at all!

Big thanks too to Joe Davis, Kerry Doan, Asad, Samarian, and all the other community members who are providing support and working together to make mojoPortal the hands-down best open source CMS choice for the Microsoft ecosystem!

Jamie

1. Nonsense. Having the code does not make it possible to steal your data as long as you install it and configure security according to best practices. Open source means lots of eyes are looking at the code and if they see any mistakes that could be vulnerabilities they report them. Obscurity does not make security.

2. mojoPortal is not software for social networking sites it is for business sites, see the section at the bottom of the About page which describes what mojoPortal is not designed for. If you want features like that you could build them yourself.

3. You can add custom fields to the registration page and user profile, see the documentation.

4. Create a css file for your custom feature, put it in the skin folder and add it to the list of css files in the style.config file in your skin folder.

5. Nope there isn't, maybe you can build that if you need it but it is not in the box.

6. Each CMS platform has their own requirements for skins, some CMS platforms are more popular and therefore lots of 3rd party skins. We are not there yet, but it is very easy to make skins using Artisteer. Usually for any important site you want a custom skin not a design that other sites may also be using. Any worthwhile site should have its own unique design.

7. Not true, if you're doing that you're doing it wrong. Just upload the new files on top of the old files and then visit the /Setup/Default.aspx page. It will only overwrite mojoPortal system files, it will not touch any custom images or other files you have uploaded. You should not fork the mojoPortal code or modify existing mojoPortal files that way there is no risk in upgrading.

8. Yes, your site looks kind of boring because you are using an old skin that shipped in older versions of mojoPortal and it looks old school and out dated. You really need to make a fresh design to make your site look good. A reminder service is an interesting idea but its not easy to compete with other things that already exist such as google calendar and others, if you search google for "reminder service" you can see there is already a lot of them. 

Hope that helps,

Joe

the site is http://www.generation-eco.com

Two more to bring in MojoPortal site in the basket :-)

Very glad to hear it!

Many thanks for the beers! Much appreciated.

Cheers,

Joe

I would just like to say what a wonderful CMS framework you have created. I hope you enjoy the well deserved pints of Murphey's I've sent you .

The site I'm currently working on is not live yet, but as soon as it is I will post a link. In order to accomplish what I needed with the site I had to replace a few of the core files with my own, but found the information I required very quickly and your code was a joy to work with.

Cheers

Huw

Best,

Joe

Check out the site at http://www.dellingerfamilyfarms.com

Norbert

Many many thanks again.

Even I should be able to make this adjustment, really I should learn to read patch notes.

Karl

Take a look at the article Important Skin Changes, I'm pretty sure you just need to add the colorbox css into your style.config file as indicated in the notes for version 2.3.6.4 in that article.

Best,

Joe

I had always thought it was something to do with my own change to the site skin and I had introduced an error of some kind.

But the problem seems to be much deeper, because if I switch to other skins the gallery is still broken, thought this might be because the .css files are cached. 

I'll look into this further.

But I notice that the nice icon style approach to the layout of the Administration menu doesn't work either, so this must be related to a .css error I have. 

Karl

http://outreach.chem.ox.ac.uk/home.aspx

The pictures show on the top of the page.

Thanks for the great testimonial! It is very rewarding to see a prestigious university like Oxford using mojoPortal!

Best,

Joe

I've been a great fan of mojoportal and here is a collection of my websites, I run them as major departmental websites and intranet websites and also micro sites, for conferences and research groups. 

Our Intranet is https  secure behind the University wide SSO system and I am very proud with the help of Joe and mojoportal developers I got this to work.

last count I think I was running over 20 mojoportal website . Here are a few:

http://admissions.chem.ox.ac.uk/ - this is my most recent creation.

http://outreach.chem.ox.ac.uk/

http://course.chem.ox.ac.uk/  - this is IP locked to University network - it is all our course synopsis material 

http://research.chem.ox.ac.uk/

http://iyc2011.chem.ox.ac.uk/

http://catalysis.chem.ox.ac.uk/

http://molec2012.chem.ox.ac.uk/

https://intranet.chem.ox.ac.uk/ - this is behind the University SSO

http://safety.chem.ox.ac.uk/ - this is IP locked to University network

Many thanks for such a great product.

Karl

Both of those sites look good, I've added them to the mojo sites list.

Best,

Joe

• http://www.access-programmers.com/
• http://www.sql-programmers.com/

We wanted to increase our SEO efforts, and we also liked mojoPortal's blog format a lot better. We couldn't even get one of the blogs working since we first deployed on DNN, and now we can start developing a more robust content strategy for both sites.

Best,

Joe

Monash Institute

• Clients were very happy
• They say the CMS is very easy to use, a lot easier to use then others they have used
• http://www.monashinstitute.org/

 

Buffed

• Clients very happy
• Custom animations in menu
• Lots of praise for the design
• http://www.buffed.org.au/

 

Bizness babes

• Clients bought champagne to our launch meeting
• http://www.biznessbabes.com.au/

 

RecluseAV

• Clients happy, lots of praise for the design
• http://www.recluseav.com.au/

 

Thanks!

-Mike

Your site looks great on my iPhone and thank you very much, that is a great testimonial!

Do you mind if I use your testimonial on the Mobile Kit product page and in marketing such as our newsletter?

Thanks,

Joe

My name is Mike, I'm the web applications developer at the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST for short). We've been using MojoPortal at POST for over a year now. We recently bought and implemented a mobile site using your Mobile Kit Pro. Prior to this I had hand coded a JqueryMobile/HTML version of our mobile site with a small subset of the pages available on the full site. With MobileKitPro we now allow our users to access all the pages available on the main site on mobile devices. Over the past year and a half we have created custom modules for MojoPortal, I was very impressed that most of these modules worked with the new mobile site without much tweaking.

Thanks so much for your hard work on MobileKitPro.

You're welcome to come check out our site on your Android/iPhone at http://post.ca.gov

-Mike

I really want to appreciate your great invention of offering a Easy to Use portal that's damn flexible to customize and having good support off the line on the mojoPortal Community and also feeling happy to be a community member and a user.

I recently tested  today with speeds of few websites that run on good servers with mojoPortal and other CMS's. I was surprised to see the load time and the results are here as follows.

 

Domain name                            Size                                   Load Time Average                              Speed per KB

1 www.mojoportal.com             85.65 KB                                  0.83 seconds                                   0.01 seconds

2 mojoportal.com                      85.65 KB                                  0.96 seconds                                   0.01 seconds

3 demo.mojoportal.com           24.67 KB                                  0.61 seconds                                    0.02 seconds

4 www.dotnetnuke.com            66.39 KB                                  0.69 seconds                                     0.01 seconds

5 www.wordpress.org              10.34 KB                                   0.49 seconds                                     0.05 seconds

Kudos to all the mojoPortal developers,

--
Regards
Guruprasad

Thanks! I will make the same change, I think I intended to make the same change before but missed it somehow.

Best,

Joe

This is awesome work... I just found mojoPortal and am having a blast... and plan to move most of my clients to it over time.  Just bought Artisteer (using your link), and beers and/or modules are forthcoming. :)

I stumbled across an issue using the latest Artisteer in customizing a skin.  The issue is that the SKIN property ContainerCssClass in the PageMenu skin was being ignored in the mojoPortal.Web.TreeViewAdapter.RenderBeginTag method.  When I modified your hard-coded tag... it fixed the issue.  It almost looks like you had it intentionally hard-coded to prevent some other issue somewhere... so please let me know if I'm missed something!  If it's not actually a bug... I don't want to end up with forked code.

Thanks!

Andrew

The code from ~\mojoPortal\Web\Controls\Adapters\TreeViewAdapter.cs.  My change is commented about 9 lines into the method:

        protected override void RenderBeginTag(HtmlTextWriter writer)
{
if (Extender.AdapterEnabled)
{
switch(extraMarkupMode)
{
case "Artisteer":

// 2012.01.15 - Hauchmahler modified; CSS Class was hard-coded... so SKIN property wasn't being applied.
//Extender.RenderBeginTag(writer, containerElement, "art-vmenublock");
Extender.RenderBeginTag(writer, containerElement, containerCssClass);

if (!suppressCornerDivs)
{
writer.Write("<div class=\"art-vmenublock-tl\"></div>");
writer.Write("<div class=\"art-vmenublock-tr\"></div>");
writer.Write("<div class=\"art-vmenublock-bl\"></div>");
writer.Write("<div class=\"art-vmenublock-br\"></div>");
writer.Write("<div class=\"art-vmenublock-tc\"></div>");
writer.Write("<div class=\"art-vmenublock-bc\"></div>");
writer.Write("<div class=\"art-vmenublock-cl\"></div>");
writer.Write("<div class=\"art-vmenublock-cr\"></div>");
writer.Write("<div class=\"art-vmenublock-cc\"></div>");
}

writer.Write("<div class=\"art-box-body art-vmenublock-body\">");

if ((renderNavigationHeader) && (navigationHeaderText.Length > 0))
{
writer.Write("<div class=\"art-vmenublockheader\">");
writer.Write("<div class=\"t\">" + navigationHeaderText + "</div>");
writer.Write("</div>");
}

writer.Write("<div class=\"art-box art-vmenublockcontent\">");
writer.Write("<div class=\"art-box-body art-vmenublockcontent-body\">");

break;

case "":
case "None":
default:
Extender.RenderBeginTag(writer, containerElement, containerCssClass);
break;
}

}
else
{
base.RenderBeginTag(writer);
}
}

  

Regards,

Victor

I hope that helps.

Jamie

tried to find how it is correctly called in english - best i could find is "Audit trail" in wikipedia. so they want the website to have this audit trail. Right now i'm thinking that we could make some additional trace on DLL or BLL.. do not know. Also they want ability to rollback any editing action if needed - this is more complicated.

Regards,

Victor

Jamie

now i'm having interesting issue - portal needs access protocol. thinking about simpliest way - make some small custom parsing of IIS logs to filter out logged in users and their activity (mean editors etc.)  actually regualtory documents require log and possibility to rollback any change.  So any advice will be greatly appreciated .  So in my case requirements are too paranoid for simple presentation website, but i doubt that i will be able to change requirements easier (this why good list of example sites would help) than trying to follow them as is, or  at least try to make maximum approach.

Regards,

Victor 

I agree it can be difficult to get buy-in from decision makers who are already convinced that another solution is the better one, but I'm sure if you prepare a cost benefit analysis, and demo how easy mojoPortal is to maintain and operate, you'll be able to get people onto your side.

I don't know what specific security requirements you have, but I've always been very impressed by mojoPortal's security structure. In fact, I'd say that it's been designed with security as the topmost concern, and potentially useful features have been rejected by Joe because they might compromise security. I mean things like the ability to edit the config files for the site, through an interface within the site.

Jamie

in our country  we have strange regulation about government sites - thay should have differrent security features... People here are starting to ask what is mojoportal, how secure it is, who uses it etc. Having good list of different goverment sites would be good to spread it for such organizations. Anyway it is our taxes thay pay for commercial websites why not use opensource and save our money. But persuade someone here is too hard also there is a big lobby to provide VERY expensive solutions for such government controlled websites.

Regards,

Victor

I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have about our sites and implementation.

Jamie

Can anyone please share links to successfull implementation of mojoportal fo goverment agencies.

The goverment and related entities are very special case and i think it will  be good to have a list of successfull implementations here.

Those who did it know all complications to deal with goverment.... 

I found 2 links here on mojo http://www.mojoportal.com/city-and-state-government-agencies-improve-their-web-presence-while-reducing-costs-with-mojoportal.aspx

and http://www.rcjy.gov.cn/.

Anyone hwo have some more information please share. Let's keep this list in one topic, may be later  Joe will find this usefull to list it as separate category in this list http://www.mojoportal.com/sites.aspx.

 Regards,

Victor

The first bit of custom module coding that my colleague Matthew tackled for our new greenspace scotland site was to extend the functionality of the list module to include and AtoZ picker and paging, the results can be seen here

http://www.greenspacescotland.org.uk/other-organisations.aspx

Could be shared if anyone is interested.

Cheers

J

J

Cheers

J

Site looks great. I did notice the link to Workwithus.org in the footer doesn't work. ;-)

Later,
Joe D.

Looks great! Congrats on going live with it and many thanks for the beers!

Cheers,

Joe

Been a great journey - love working with MoJo.

Couldn't have got here without much great support form Joe and Co - thanks guys you rock!

John

I've added them to the mojo sites list.

Best,

Joe

RxReliefCard.com

TheHealthCareAlliance.com

2 more coming soon (because it's so easy to build them!)

Best,

Joe

Jamie

Prior development team expertise and satisfaction with mojoPortal made the platform decision a no-brainer.

The site has a daily updating photo blog (http://www.machias.org/pastor.aspx) maintained by the Pastor (Ron Sallee) as well as a weekly MP3 podcast series of sermons which are prominantly featured on the home page (http://www.machias.org/).

Take a look!  The development team can be reached at media85184@mypacks.net.

best regards Michele

Je suis heureux de vous annoncer la mise en ligne du site de Taru Kaukovalta (  www.kaukovalta.net ) en DotNet 4.0 et FirebirdSQL 2.5.

Amicalement.

Norbert

I will send you an email when I changed the design of my site.

Good night (yes, it's dark now in France !)
best regards

Christian

Yes, that is fine with me. Please link the logo back to this site.

Thanks again for the beer!

Best,

Joe

Can I say on my site (www.esoft-studio.fr) I am a specialist integrator for mojoPortal (in France) and add your logo?

Christian

Christian

Looks good! I've added it to the mojo sites list.

Best,

Joe

Looks good! I've added it to the list.

Cheers,

Joe

Another site mojoPortal (v2.3.6.5) with custom modules developed in Visual Basic 2010 to manage the photos and data from registered visitors, sending emails grouped, payment by Paypal ...

URL: www.maylove.fr

Not many pages, but quite technical.

Design a little different from my other sites, but you will recognize some parts of the skin made with Artisteer !

Best regards

Christian

Another standard mojoPortal site (v2.3.6.5) with pictures, a slide, a little flash, form mail and Google maps.

URL: www.techni-decors.fr

Christian