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Ever wondered how to style the mojoPortal Search Input Box? I wrote a how-to on the subject late

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Get started using GreyBox and LightBox on your mojoPortal site with just a few easy steps.
 

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I noticed recently that Joe Audette has changed the licensing on the "Pro" products offered on the mojoPortal website to be lifetime licenses. Previously, the licenses allowed updates for 1 year but Joe never really enforced that.

This is really nice for the community as we don't have to worry about renewing our licenses and purchasing upgrades. Pay for it once and forget it. Sounds pretty darn good to me.

Update: Joe Audette has decided to implement this in the next version of mojoPortal, due in a couple of weeks. He is updating the <portal:PageTitle control with this functionality. I have from time to time needed to show a page's title within the content as a heading. The controls that come with mojoPortal don't really allow for this but I have come up with a handy little control that will show the Page Title on the page and allow you to choose how the text is rendered. To get started, create two files; PageTitle.ascx and PageTitle.ascx.cs. Place both of these files in the read more

When Joe Audette released mojoPortal 2.3.3.4 he wrote an article called "Creating An Admin Toolbar" in the mojoPortal Skinning Documentation. The toolbar uses jQuery to easily show and hide itself and is skinned entirely by using CSS. If you follow Joe's directions or you are using a skin that came with 2.3.3.4 with the toolbar enabled, you will have a toolbar that looks like this: While this serves a perfectly good function, there are a few things about it I don't like. It is gray and there are no icons depicting the links. I happen to like icons and bright colors so, I came up read more