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FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLIC RELEASE:

i7MEDIA has purchased mojoPortal and all of its commercial modules

Kearney, Mo (Feb 6,  2017) - It is an exciting day for the mojoPortal project! i7MEDIA, a longtime supporter of the mojoPortal project, has completed the purchase of the open source project and the commercial modules available on the mojoPortal website from Source Tree Solutions.

Joe Davis, i7MEDIA President, has been strong supporter of mojoPortal since 2008. Joe built his business around this versatile and user-friendly content management system. i7MEDIA, is dedicated to furthering the development of mojoPortal and its tools.

Rest assured mojoPortal will remain an open source project and there are no plans to change that. However, I7MEDIA has plans for expanding mojoPortal to help it stay relevant and provide the very best .NET CMS platform on the market today. 

Joe Audette, of Source Tree Solutions, is very enthusiastic about the new life of mojoPortal:

Joe Davis and i7MEDIA have always been the most qualified consultants for mojoPortal other than myself, and I've always had great confidence in referring customers and projects to them over the years.  Joe Davis has been a good friend and has been my go to guy when I needed to refer a customer or project that I did not have the capacity for. Whether you need design help, hosting, or custom feature development, i7MEDIA is the team you want with years of experience. mojoPortal was my baby for over a decade, and I am very glad to know my baby is in good hands! Long live mojoPortal! Joe Audette, mojoPortal Founder

mojoPortal has always been easy for users to add and manage their content. Over the past few years, though, it has fallen behind other systems which have taken more modern approaches to management and more fully utilized the capabilities of modern browsers. i7MEDIA has developed add-on features for mojoPortal which make content management easier and they are working on packaging these features for the masses to use.

Development of add-ons for mojoPortal isn't necessarily hard but there is a bit of a learning curve and quite a few steps one must take to prepare a working development environment. The focus will be on cutting down on the number of steps and making the process easier overall. They will also explore possible MVC and WebApi implementations of some features, especially administration features like the File Manager. 

It has always been possible to create beautiful sites with mojoPortal but the built-in skins were not good examples. i7MEDIA is working on providing newer skins to help showcase the power or mojoPotral.  i7MEDIA is committed to making sure that mojoPortal is seen as a designer-friendly CMS. 

A new version of mojoPortal is scheduled for release in the next couple of weeks with several small fixes, a few clean bootstrap-based skins and a brand-new file manager to replace both of the current file managers and the link and image picker used in the WYSIWYG editors. That's right, one file manager that does it all. 

For the latest news, check out mojoPortal’s Facebook and Twitter feeds.

Earlier this year we released a free skin called SwiftBlue. Now we're happy to announce that we've just released another HTML5 mojoPortal skin called Mocha. Mocha is SwiftBlue's Sister skin, and more are to come. It was designed as a contribution to the mojoPortal community and the html5mojo project. Like SwiftBlue, Mocha was created with semantics-friendly HTML5 Markup.

Check out the live demo website to see what your mojoPortal website could look like today!

Features

As with all i7MEDIA Skins, Mocha has detailed style for every feature found in mojoPortal, most notably for the Event Calendar, Event Calendar Pro, Blog, Forums, Feed manager, and jPlayer Media Players.

Other features include:

• Mocha includes support for a few basic content templates, including a fancy content slider. Making use of these templates will help you to create easy and professional content formats, so that you can spend less time worrying about layout and more time perfecting the content that your viewers came to see.
• We've created a custom design for the dedicated Sign in and Register pages on Mocha. This way it is easier for your users to interact with the site, without having to sort through other page content.
• Mocha utilizes a fancy User Bar based on Twitter Bootstrap. The bar includes a lot of features, links to mojoPortal, member profiles, and the ability for administrators to toggle the settings and edit links - this way you can see your site the way your users do. But mostly it's just beautiful.
• HTML5 is an important new language that is of high interest to website owners, this is because of the implications for SEO, among other things. Mocha is HTML5 Friendly. Not sure what this means? We explain more on the live demo site.

Support

The Mocha help center is built to ensure that your time working with Mocha is successful.
The skin help center covers topics like:

• Installation of Mocha
• A basic introduction to CSS Classes and how they effect you in mojoPortal
• An explanation of how to use the Mocha Content Templates
• A FAQ to answer common questions about Mocha
• A form so that you can request help, and get answers to questions that weren't answered on the FAQ.
• Another form so that you can report any bugs you find. This is important because we'll be trying to keep the skin up to date. We feel that getting input from the users of the skin is the best way to make sure the skin is maintained well over the course of mojoPortal updates.

Check out the Mocha Skin-Help center now.

Mocha and SwiftBlue are just another way you can make your mojoPortal site shine with a little help from i7MEDIA. Keep your eyes out, we'll be releasing more free skins soon!
Interested? Check out the Mocha live demo site