Blog & News

Back in March of 2011 we added the "Pager" option to the Slide Show feature of the mojoPortal HTML Module. Since that time, we've seen some requests for styling the pager links so here's a simple style we use on this site. It can be adapted to any design and doesn't use any images. To use this CSS, just copy it to one of your skin's .css files and then apply the "prettycyclenav" class to the "Custom CSS Class" option in the HTML module settings. If you want the slide number to be shown within the navigation, add the "withnumbers" class to the "Custom CSS Class" option.

Announcing the release of SwiftBlue v1

SwiftBlue is the first in a series of template skins developed by i7MEDIA for mojoPortal. It was designed as a contribution to the mojoPortal community and the html5mojo project. SwiftBlue has been created with semantics-friendly HTML5 Markup.

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

One of the things that most of our users like the most about mojoPortal is the easy access they have to module settings and edit screens. Sometimes, people ask if they can hide these links (or icons if the skin uses those) while remaining logged into the site.

Well, here's an extremely easy way to hide the links without sacrificing the usability of mojoPortal. This solution is completely skin based so it doesn't require any additions to the mojoPortal core.

First, we add the following to our skin script (see "Optimize Your mojoPortal Skin Scripts" for more info):

The mojoPortal Welcome Message control can be configured to link to the logged-in user's profile. This is useful if you want to have a message like "Signed In As: USER NAME" and have USER NAME link to the user's profile settings.

Almost every single skin we develop uses a couple javascripts but even the addition of one script can slow the speed of a website. We use a fairly simple process to combine as many of our scripts into one file and then using a neat mojoPortal control, we add that script the combined site script. The combined site script contains most of the scripts mojoPortal uses for things like site cookies, asp.net css friendly adapters, etc… This process will result in fewer files being delivered to the browser, thus improving performance (somewhat).