Hi,

1. The version of mojoPortal you are using has all the available skins for that version except for some that are available on the community download page. Most of those skins used to also be included in mojoPortal but I moved them out as most were not what I consider great looking though some aren't bad. I hope to get some little screen shots up for those soon so you can decide whether to download them more easily. All the new skins I've been working on for the next release can be viewed on demo.mojoportal.com for now, but will be included in the next release which will hopefully be ready sometime this weekend. So far this is 12 new skins based on 9 designs.  5 more new skins based on 2 sets of similar designs are also targeted for this release.

2. We do have a single Links table which is used for all instances of links feature across sites. It doesn't have all the fields to match your schema. For example we currently don't have categories, though I have a design plan for a general tagging feature which will be used across features, not just in links. Not sure how soon that will be ready but it is on my road map and considered a high value feature.

You can learn more by looking at the database schema for mojoPortal.

Hope it helps,

Joe

Hi,

You can publish items on multiple pages (as shown in this video) and there is also a way to do it in layout.master so that an item appears on all pages without having to publish it on all pages, see this thread.

mojoPortal is under very active development and I am of the release early release often philosophy so I would check back frequently or subscribe to the blog. Of course its up to you if you want to upgrade every time a new release is made.

Generally I recommend always update everything to make sure you don't miss any important changes. For example you should never try to keep your old Web.config file because you may end up missing some settings. Instead, you can put most of your Web.config customizations in a user.config file as indicated in this article, and this makes it less painful to upgrade Web.config.

I have some recommendations about uploading files here and some other tips about upgrading here.

The next release is mostly new skins but there were plumbing changes needed to support some of the new designs so its best to upgrade everything even on this coming release.

Hope it helps,

Joe