A New Skin with Tab Menu

I just implemented a new skin today using this design, you can see it now on the demo site. It only took me about 3 and a half hours to implement it. It is in my svn sandbox now and will be in trunk later tonight.

I also got started on another skin using this design, but its not finished yet. Since there are so many good free designs on sites like OpenDesigns.org, OpenWebDesign.org, and OpenSourceTemplates.org, I plan to spend the next week implementing new skins to include in mojoPortal. I'm not a good designer myself but I do have a good understanding of CSS and can usually implement a skin using someone else's design. I've downloaded quite a few designs and am picking ones that I think will show a lot of variety. If anyone wants to suggest designs from one of these sites that they would like to see implented as a mojoPortal skin I'm open to suggestions.

Let me know what you think of the new skin on the demo site, do you like it? Do you think its better looking than the other mojoPortal skins. I do ;-)

A lot of people like tab style menus and they do look nice though you are limited to how many items you can have in a horizontal menu. I implemented this skin so that only top level pages are in the top horizontal tab menu and cild pages beneath those are in a vertical tree menu.

Comments

re: A New Skin with Tab Menu

Wednesday, September 5, 2007 9:26:38 PM

Ah, it's about time!! ;)  That new skin looks great.  I'm looking forward to seeing more skins added to mojoPortal.  What's under the hood is what the biggest geeks want to know, but for 99.9% of the world, bling is king.

Christian Fredh

re: A New Skin with Tab Menu

Thursday, September 6, 2007 4:01:33 AM

I think it's a good idea too. People quickly need to see how nice it could look. A design is the first thing that meet the eye, and affects the first impression very much. The skin looks great btw!

Fero

A New Skin with Tab Menu

Friday, September 7, 2007 8:43:11 PM

Heh, very nice. I think it is a time to bring mojoPortal to the next level. You have done great job with this portal, but skins and documentation needs more work.

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