Still playing around with mojo portal and loving though finding some of it a bit of steep learning curve! lol

I have been looking at skins and artisteer and will be buying artisteer soon (will use the affiliate link) and am happy that I can get a skin working fine due to the excellant documentation provided.

However the site I am going to be building is for a small business and will not need the community side of what is provided with mojoportal (such as creating users, managing account, member list etc) and what I really want to do is to remove the topnav section all together.......

To do this I believe that I need to go to the layout.master that is located wwwroot\App_MasterPages in the deployment file and I can remove the whole section in there or I could hide the div in the stylelayout.css file in wwwroot\App_DesignTimesStyle........

However, whilst I can remove topnav and tell the site admins to go onto the site and add /secure/login.aspx do I need to worry about logging out - ask them to go to /Logoff.aspx when they have finished their session?  My other immediate thought is that I would still like to make use of the search function and ideally add it into the menu but this is created dynamically from the pages so is there a way to add it into menu the site creates automagically or will I need to add it as a 'feature' somewhere on the page?  Finally however I go about providing the search function how do I adjust the dropdown list so that either only the "All Content" option is available or even better that that box isn't shown at all but "All Content" is just chosen.  I have looked at the source code and wonder if I can just remove the dropdown ddFeatureList as "All Content" is selected by default??

Having written all of this I am also wondering whether I should consider looking into child sites / multiple sites more as some of the features will not be required.......... 

Sorry for asking many questions that should be pretty straight forward really but I guess it all comes down to experiance with using mojoportal..... which I am working on! lol

Hi Joe,

HTH? - Absolutely! Thanks for the comprehensive reply there that should save me a lot of frustration! 

I had assumed that only the layout.master in the custom skin should be modified but I hadn't found the topnav section when I read through it, I have just looked again and done a search and found it right there!! Ooops!!!  It was very late when I was looking so I'll stick with that ;-)

The tips on the search page will also save me tons of time and it looks like one of those fairly easy to implement when you know how kinda things! 

Thanks also for the info on child sites, I will have a play around with them but might use the features you mention in the advanced tools as a starting point.

Thanks once again for you assistance,

Regards

Andrew