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1/6/2011 11:53:46 AM

Phill

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Mitchinson - Golden / Drop down menu items?

Hi,

I have installed mojoportal on my site and love its abilities and ease of use.

I do have a question regarding the Skins and their Menu systems.

I have been using the Mitchinson - Golden during the setup of the site and just noticed that there are no child (drop down) menu items off the main menu. I believe that this will be detrimental to the navigation of the site for the user.

Is there a method to turn ON the drop down feature for this main menu & skin?

Thanks

Phill

1/6/2011 11:57:19 AM

Joe Audette

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Re: Mitchinson - Golden / Drop down menu items?

That skin has a vertical sub menu, if you create child pages below the top level pages they will appear in the vertical sub menu. The main menu only shows top level pages in that skin, it does not have any flyout sub menu.

Hope it helps,

Joe

1/6/2011 12:36:18 PM

Phill

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Re: Mitchinson - Golden / Drop down menu items?

Hi Joe,

Thanks, I was afraid that would be the case.

I did find that the pages would show the child pages in a column.

I kind of like the idea that the user can see which page he/she wants and can go to it directly from the Home page.

I know its a stretch for you... but...

I am building a site for a sailing group... would you have any suggestions to skins that are sort of nautical in theme or color and have the drop-down main menu?

Thanks

Phill

1/6/2011 12:42:12 PM

Joe Audette

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Re: Mitchinson - Golden / Drop down menu items?

Hi Phil,

We don't have any that seem nautical to me but there are a number of skins with flyout menus, mitchinson-earthy, mitchinson-erthy-alt1, jquery-ui, and a number of the Artisteer skins have that kind of menu.

Really you could design your own skin using Artisteer, it is a really user friendly product and it has a free trial so you can give it a try before deciding if you like it, but I bet you could come up with something nautical.

Best,

Joe

1/6/2011 12:45:50 PM

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Re: Mitchinson - Golden / Drop down menu items?

I was going to recommend Artisteer as well. It's great when you already have something brewing in the back of your mind.

Jamie

1/6/2011 3:20:13 PM

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Re: Mitchinson - Golden / Drop down menu items?

Hi Joe, Jamie,

Thanks for the thoughts and suggestion. I looked at some skins from MetaMorph but couldn't get any to work. They just scrambled the screen and contents up.

I have downloaded and installed the Artisteer skin builder and I agree they make it very easy... once you get past the myriad of bits and pieces and choices...

Thanks

Phill

1/6/2011 6:03:20 PM

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Hi guys,

I have just been looking at the Artisteer app and its a daunting task that they make much easier.

A couple of Q's if I can?

Which version Standard or Home?
Which of the following is best for creating skins for MojoPortal?
Blog on Blogger.dom
Joomla
WordPress
Drupal
DotNetNuke
HTML
asp.net
Code Charge studio...

Thanks
Phill

1/6/2011 6:18:08 PM

Joe Audette

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Re: Mitchinson - Golden / Drop down menu items?

Hi Phil,

Thanks for the beer! Much appreciated.

I would go with Standard, it is the full product with all the textures and backgrounds etc.

As far as export, you want to export as HTML and then follow the steps in this document to make a mojoPortal skin.

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

If you have troubles with the conversion we'll try to help. It is actually going to be even a little easier after Artisteer ships version 3.0 and we ship the next version of mojoPortal and both are coming soon. Artisteer 3.0 will be a free upgrade to anyone who bought it in the last year.

Best,

Joe

1/6/2011 8:04:12 PM

Phill

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Re: Mitchinson - Golden / Drop down menu items?

Hi Joe,

I am surprised at how different each of the "types" (HTML/ASP.NET/etc) changes the entire layout and looks textures etc.

Thanks for the hits & tips. I'll work in it tonight and tomorrow morning... then comes the next step... export and then apply to the actual mojoportal site. I hope the docs you pointed me to will help.

Enjoy your beer... :-)

Phill

1/7/2011 11:11:28 AM

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Re: Mitchinson - Golden / Drop down menu items?

Joe,

I got on okay with it... Created a nice looking skin and exported it BUT when I put it in a folder under the Data structure and select it from the drop down ... it is garbage

Sorry I was also unable to follow your instructions... I don't have a layout.master file or style-artisteer-overrides.css and have no idea where to look for them.

phill

1/7/2011 11:22:15 AM

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Re: Mitchinson - Golden / Drop down menu items?

Hi Joe,

I got some of this figured out... when creating a new skin the destination folder (\data\sites\1\skins\...) MUST already containing a copy of an existing sites files....

I see that the new artisteer skin has "TRIAL" written all over it.... not a very good thing? Its written on every image file as a watermark...

I do not think I can use this product without purchasing it.

Got any thoughts or suggestions?

Phill

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