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The latest release of mojoPortal (v 2.3.1.7) added functionality to use a SilverLight SlideShow with the mojoPortal image gallery and a new feature for a slide show based on your Flickr account. Both of these features are very cool and I was excited to see them added to the mojoPortal core but when Joe Audette told me of another SlideShow feature he is adding to mojoPortal, I was jumping up and down and now I can't wait for the next release! Joe is adding the ability to the HTML Feature of mojoPortal to display any element in a Slide Show. All the user has to do is type out their text, read more

In a recent article, "Alert: What's Coming for Open Source CMS in September 2009", on CMSWire I noticed that they did not mention mojoPortal (http://www.mojoportal.com). mojoPortal is my CMS of choice because of its usability, simple management and skinning. I have used many other CMS projects over the years and I have found mojoPortal the best for doing what a CMS is supposed to do which is save time and effort in the management of a website. Some key feature of mojoPortal that I like are: Multi-site installation allows you to host multiple sites with one installation of read more

The mojoPortal deployment package includes the setup and upgrade scripts for the 5 different database platforms it supports. Of course a single installation of mojoPortal will only use 1 of those database platforms. These extra files aren't really all that big and hard disk space is cheap but many people would like to remove the extra files to keep things as slim as possible. i7MEDIA hosts many mojoPortal sites so we put together a nice little batch script to remove all the extra files from our installations. This script can be ran against an actual installation of mojoPortal or it can be read more

mojoPortal comes with a lot of skins with different menu styles. One of these skins (andreasviklund-02) has two sets of horizontal menus allowing for a more compact menu system on 2nd tier pages. You can check out the above mentioned skin using the demo site for a working example. The mojoPortal site itself uses a similar menu system so you can use it as an example also. I am currently working on my church's website (http://acckc.org/mojo) and it uses this menu style. To achieve this style of menu, you must add a few controls to your layout.master file. Place this code under the read more

mojoPortal released version 2.3.0.1 on April 20 and I just completed the DotNetPanel Application Pack for this release. You can download it at http://i7media.net/downloads.aspx.

Go mojo!