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3/23/2009 4:56:12 AM
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Other suggestions

I have been playing around a bit with Mojo Portal and have the following suggestions to ease friendliness.

  • Better configurability of the footer, in particular a setting to let the user substitute "Your Company" text in the copyright footer by the name or company of the website.
  • Better documentation about enabling and using the payment facilities (PayPal, Google Checkout, etc.)
  • Better configurability for the page header. For example to be able to change the color and font of the site header text (Site Name), sometimes the chosen color doesn't blend in well with the theme.
  • The possibility to configure an icon or image to appear on either the left or right side of the header near Site Name.
  • Google Maps key in site settings.
  • Allow user to specify custom META tags.
  • Several things are difficult to find. for example the "Bookmark" iconlet at the top, I saw it once and have never been able to find it again in the configuration.
3/23/2009 7:27:35 AM
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Re: Other suggestions

H,

You can edit the footer in the layout.master file of your skin. Perhaps I will add a site setting for company name when I get time to make this easier.

Yep we can always use more/better documentation.

Skinning and design is limited only by html and css and graphics skills. Colors and fonts, images and placement of images is all css its not a feature of mojoPortal. 

There already is a place for the google maps key in siteSettings under the API Keys tab, though its also possible to set it in web.config and this will trump the sitesetting.

Users can specify meta keywords and descriptions. If you need custom meta tags that are global you can put them in layout.master of the skin. There is actually a secret setting that is hidden for additional meta on pages. Its hidden because its a free form text field and its easy for users who don't know what its for to put something there will break the site or make it invalid markup. If you want to use it you can make it visible by this setting in Web.config:

<add key="ShowAdditionalMeta" value="false" />

The AddThis bookmark button is also enabled from siteSettings by entering your addthis.com username.

Ecommerce is a fledgling evolving feature in its early stage of development. Yes ecommerce configuration can be tricky even for me.

Hope it helps,

Joe

3/23/2009 9:30:39 AM
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Re: Other suggestions

Thanks for the information, I do have however some extra related questions...

  • I changed the Your Company in the layout.Master of the skin I am using (styleshout/envision). so I edited the layout.Master in Data\skins\styleshout-envision and restarted the appliation (using App_Offline.htm) but it still shows Your Company. I am at a loss here because the Site Settings say that is the skin I am using.
  • As for the AddThis.com, why would I need to put my username? isn't it the idea that the site visitor posts the link to HIS/HER AddThis shared bookmarks rather than MINE?

Just wondering...

3/23/2009 10:00:13 AM
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Re: Other suggestions

Hi,

As indicated in the skinning documentation, the skins at /Data/skins are just the catalog where skins come from when new sites are created. The skin actually used by thwe site is at /Data/Sites/[SiteID]/skins/[skinname] 

AddThis.com provides you with statistics of bookmarking using their widget so you need a user name to aggregate your stats correctly.

Hope it helps,

Joe

3/24/2009 9:15:46 AM
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Re: Other suggestions

Hi Joe,

   Thanks for the information. I have noticed the following issues so far:

  • Caching problems (?) even when I change a skin style and clear my browser cache it usually shows the old page
  • The SiteTitle web control can be enhanced with a LogoImage property, this will be most welcomed by many.
  • Following your instructions I signed up for AddThis.com, got my key generated and added it to the site settings. I saved my settings (even logged out then back in) and the site still does not show the AddThis bookmark icon (see http://www.coralys.com/). What else am I missing here?

With regards to the AddThis I see on the page source (served page) that there is an InsecurePanel DIV named addthis or so, but that DIV is empty. Even though the AddThis username is in the site configuration (didn't see it on web.config so I guess it is a DB entry) the add this control fails to produce the markup to show it.

 

Thanks in advance,

Emilio

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