How can I get the skins that are on the current Demo Site?

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4/24/2012 5:59:53 PM
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How can I get the skins that are on the current Demo Site?

I like some of the new skins that are on the demo site now.  They didn't come with what I had downloaded earlier.  How can I obtain these?  Also, what folder are these located in?  I can't seem to remember where they are.  Maybe I'm looking for the wrong thing.  I'd like to use some of these new skins on a new web-site I'm building.

Dave :-)

4/25/2012 3:46:50 PM
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Re: How can I get the skins that are on the current Demo Site?

Hi Dave, I'm pretty sure every skin on the demo sight is either pre-installed, or you can find on the codeplex site.

http://www.codeplex.com/mojoportal/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx

 

You can find more info here at the bottom of the page.

 

https://www.mojoportal.com/creating-skins-from-artisteer-html-templates.aspx

4/26/2012 1:40:57 PM
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Re: How can I get the skins that are on the current Demo Site?

All the skins on the demo site are included in the mojoPortal package and there are some additional ones in the extra-skins.zip on our codeplex download page.

Note however that if you upgraded from a previous version of mojoPortal we don't update ar add any new skins to the site specific skin folder because we don't want to overwrite anything that you may have customized. So if you upgraded you'll need to copy any new/updated skins you want from /Data/skins to /Data/[SiteID]/skins

Hope that helps,

Joe

4/26/2012 1:47:55 PM
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Re: How can I get the skins that are on the current Demo Site?

Yes it does.  Thanks!  Also, one more quick question.  I saw that some of the skins folders contain a page.html which is great to view what the skin looks like.  Is there an easy way to generate this page.html file for the other skins or would I just need to create them manually?

Dave :-)

4/26/2012 2:10:17 PM
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Re: How can I get the skins that are on the current Demo Site?

Hi Dave,

That only exists in the Artisteer skins and is one of the files exported by Artisteer, it isn't something generated by mojoPortal and it isn't used in mojoPortal for anthing other than comparing the mojoPortal skin to what the exported Artisteer html looks like.

Note that I don't recommend using Artisteer skins as a starting point for further customization. If you want to modify any of the Artisteer designs it is best to do that in Artisteer and then re-export. We make the .artx files used by Artisteer available also on our codeplex download page in the ArtisteerFiles.zip, you can open those files in Artisteer and then customize the design in Artisteer and re-export the CSS.

For those who want to design from scratch using CSS its better to start with one of the non-Artisteer skins in our extra skins download.

Hope that helps,

Joe

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