I'm very excited to announce that mojoPortal is now available in the Windows Web App Gallery, and can be installed easily using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta.

If you've already installed the Platform Installer you can start the download and installation with 1 click.

Huge thanks to Microsoft and the IIS team for helping us get listed in the web app gallery! I think this is going to help a lot in spreading the word about mojoPortal. Now we need some reviews so if you like mojoPortal why not visit our page in the gallery and give us a good rating and review.
http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/mojoPortal.aspx

The mojoPortal package in the gallery is for MS SQL, but our packages for other databases can also be installed using the MS Web Deployment Tool, which is installed using the Platform Installer.

If you've been involved in the open source content management world for while, you've probably come accross OpenSourceCMS.com before. For a long time they have hosted demos of all the popular open source PHP CMS and web applications. Its kind of a one stop shopping place where you can test drive a lot of different CMS and web applications without having to install them yourself. I've always wished mojoPortal could be on their list but since they were only doing PHP it wasn't possible. But now they are tackling ASP.NET demos to bring the same convenience for trying ASP.NET web applications without having to install it yourself. Happily, mojoPortal is now on there as well as quite a few other popular ASP.NET content management systems and blogs. I still encourage you to use our demo site but sometimes it can get a little out of whack with lots of people using it so its good having another alternative demo site available.

Congratulations to Scott Goodwin and Mark King on the launch of their new ASP.NET demo site, I hope it does as well as their PHP demos have.

mojoPortal got some favorable coverage in the Information Week blog.

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/01/mojoportal_a_so.html

Nice to see!

I'm happy to announce the Grand Opening of the mojoPortal Store!

We actually had a semi-grand opening a few weeks ago, but all you could do in the store until now is buy me a beer. Many Thanks to the kind folks who have bought me a beer since then! I really appreciated the beers and it really helped to be able to test the ecommerce before launching my first real product.

Event Calendar Pro is now on sale!

Yo can get a Single Installation License for $99 or a Server License for $299, or an Enterprise License with Full Source Code for $899

Checkout the product detail page for more info and screen shots, or watch this video for a guided tour of features.

With all the nice looking new skins from my recent skinning campaign, I decided it was time to give mojoPortal.com a makeover. The previous design was about 2 years old and was starting to look a little dated. I also wanted to reduce the clutter on the home page and try to have a more succinct marketing message. I think in the past I've thought that most of my audience were developers so I was packing in a lot of technical information on the home page, but over time I've come to realize I should be targeting more towards business people and emphasizing the business value of mojoPortal more than the technical merits, at least on the home page. So I hope you like the new look!