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mojoSkins Project Release V1.0

Making mojoPortal Beautiful

Our team at i7MEDIA have been developing mojoPortal skins for a long time, and we've done a lot of fine-tuning of our skinning process over the years. Now we want to make the fruit of our labor, the Framework skin, available for the whole mojoPortal community, for free! In light of this, we've just launched our new mojoSkins project with a version 1.0 release. This first release comes as a package of 5 skins: Framework v3.3.7, and four skins created out of Framework using Bootswatch.

Expect Much More to Come!

Framework was always intended to be a very basic skin which we would then build our designs on top of. With this new project, we're going to have to change that direction a little bit, making improvements for its use by all of you. For instance, because it's been a very long time since any of our clients used the Webstore feature in mojoPortal, the current version of Framework in this release doesn't include styles for it. We will be fixing this, as well as adding styles for all of the Pro modules in the near future, fixing any bugs that arise, and making quality-of-life improvements for the end users where we can.

We want to ensure that everything is as good as possible while also keeping the skins as small as possible, since after all Framework is intended to be a base that you use to build your own design on top of, which is why we are also going to be adjusting mojoPortal's core code to better suit being used with skinning systems like Bootstrap and will adjust the Framework skin as needed to reflect those changes. We believe we can greatly reduce the amount of CSS needed in Framework by doing this (though it is already reasonably small).

While the skins in this first release are primarily targeted at other developers, who we want to provide with a solid foundation for skin creation in mojoPortal, we believe they will work well for anyone, developer or not, who wants to create a very clean mojoPortal site.

How Can I use it?

Using the new skins from this project is incredibly easy, here's the step-by-step:

  1. Download the skins from here.
  2. Extract the zip file you just downloaded.
  3. Each of the skins is included in the root of the zip in their own folder. Choose which skin(s) you'd like to use, and copy those folder(s) into the Data/Sites/1/Skins directory in your mojoPortal installation.*
  4. Sign into your mojoPortal site as an administrator.
  5. Click "Administration", then "Site Settings", and on that page, scroll down until you find the select input labeled "Skin".
  6. Your new skin(s) should be visible in the drop-down, select it and hit save.

That's it, you should now see the skin on your own site!

* Note: If you have a multiple site install, change the /1/ in the path described in step 3 to be /#/, where # is the site number of the mojoPortal site you'd like the skin to appear on.

How can I contribute?

We have already begun tracking issues in the project's GitHub repo, and look forward to community involvement as the project evolves. Please report any issues you notice, and feel free to do a pull request if you've managed to fix an issue yourself.

You can also create your own Bootswatch skins out of Framework, and submit them for inclusion in the project, which would be an awesome help.

mojoPortal Sightings for May 2014

For this month we have 5 sites all with nice professional designs by our friends at Evolve Creative Group in Akron Ohio. 

Buckeye Veterinary Clinic

Buckeye Veterinary Clinic website

Columbiana County Dept of Jobs and Family Services

Columbiana County Dept of Jobs and Family Services website

Towpath Credit Union

Towpath Credit Union website

Wiremen's Credit Union

Wiremen's Credit Union website

Controlled Access Turnstiles

Controlled Access Turnstiles website

Show us your stuff! We'd love to hear about the sites you are bringing online with mojoPortal. If you have a high profile site or a design that you're particularly proud of, or a site showing custom features you've built on mojoPortal, let us know, maybe we'll feature your site(s) in a blog post.

Gravatar Joe Audette is the founder of the mojoPortal project and was the primary developer until February 2017.

mojoPortal Sightings for October 2013

We have two sites to share this month. The first one Backup Power Solutions, was designed by our friends over at i7MEDIA.

Backup Power Solutions - Website Designed by i7MEDIA

Next we have Altogether Better, designed by our friends across the pond at DMSQD Creative Marketing Communications.

Altogether Better website

Show us your stuff! We'd love to hear about the sites you are bringing online with mojoPortal. If you have a high profile site or a design that you're particularly proud of, or a site showing custom features you've built on mojoPortal, let us know, maybe we'll feature your site(s) in a blog post.​

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Gravatar Joe Audette is the founder of the mojoPortal project and was the primary developer until February 2017.

mojoPortal Sightings for April 2013

We've got 3 sites to mention this month.

Boy Scouts of America - Heart of America Council website was designed and implemented by our friends at i7MEDIA

Boy Scouts of America - Heart of America Council

Boost Marathon provides a world wide marathon calendar and sells training programs for both half marathon and full marathon. The site is used in 150 countries and in 20 languages. Traffic after only a couple of months is evenly distributed among US, Europe, South America and Asia. A cloud based hosting ensures quick response times everywhere.

Boost Marathon

Salary Solutions was designed by DMSQD

Salary Solutions

We'd love to hear about the sites you are bringing online with mojoPortal. If you have a high profile site or a design that you're particularly proud of, or a site showing custom features you've built on mojoPortal, let us know, maybe we'll feature your site(s) in a blog post.​

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Gravatar Joe Audette is the founder of the mojoPortal project and was the primary developer until February 2017.

mojoPortal Sightings for October 2012

Our friends over at i7MEDIA have done lots and lots of design work with mojoPortal, and recently redesigned their own site. Not obvious from the screen shot is the mouse over menu effects on their home page, it's worth a click to check it out.

i7media site

 

SpearFysh is another new mojoPortal site recently brought to our attention and designed by  Evolve Creative Group.

SpearFysh site

 

We'd love to hear about the sites you are bringing online with mojoPortal. If you have a high profile site or a design that you're particularly proud of, or a site showing custom features you've built on mojoPortal, let us know, maybe we'll feature your site(s) in a blog post.

Follow us on twitter or become a fan on Facebook

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Gravatar Joe Audette is the founder of the mojoPortal project and was the primary developer until February 2017.