Hi Joe, I just looked at their site, and Artisteer 3.1 was officially released on November 30. So I think it should be safe to work on mojoPortal integration as your time allows.

Jamie

Well it seems pretty detailed to me. I might be willing to help you further except that I already don't like your tone towards me and I saw the other thread you got a lot of help and try to blame mojoPortal for your frustration. 

Any help you receive here is voluntary and I suggest if you want people to want to invest their own free time to help you, you should not try to pass your stress on to us.

This is a free product and we provide a lot of good support but there is indeed a good deal to know in order to manage web sites and web servers and do web design. Technology is often frustrating when we don't know how it works or what to do, you should expect frustration as we've all had our share, often there are things that seem so hard until you know how to do them and then it seems easy.

You said previously on this thread:

So apparently one must also be a server administrator or have that experience to be able to use this CMS product...?

The answer is in fact yes to run web sites and webservers you do need to be a system admin to at least some degree, that is true for any web site software. There is a lot to it, we try to make it easy as we can but it does require some knowledge of how the web works and how web server work to manage web sites and web servers. Bottom line if you choose another CMS that is ok with me, I don't claim mojoPortal to be the solution for every web site or every project.

I felt a need to give this warning because you've already raised my stress level unneccesarily. Now if you want to back up and take a more friendly tone and start over I may be willing to help you further.

First things I would want to know is:

1. What version of mojoPortal are you using. Look under Administration > System Information

2. What version of  .NET framework 3.5 or 4.0?

3. Hosted in Medium Trust hosting or not?

4. Included Artisteer skins work ok or not?

You can download the .artx files from the download page on codeplex. The file is named ArtisteerFiles.zip.

Ok, rather than answer here, I've updated the article, with some steps at the bottom that I hope will make it more clear.

As Joe said yesterday, he updated Creating Skins from Artisteer HTML templates to include the step you need. You must first look at the matrix on that page and identify which delivered skin matches the layout of your Artisteer design. Then you copy the contents of that skin folder into a new skin folder under your site. Finally, you export your Artisteer design as HTML, and copy the exported files over the top of that new skin folder.

Example:

1. I create an Artisteer 3.1 layout called MyDesign.artx, with header inside sheet, menu inside sheet above header, and footer inside sheet.
2. I look at the matrix in the article and see that I need to start with either artisteer31-blackngreen or artisteer31-verticalmenu2 as my base skin.
3. I create the folder \Data\sites\1\skins\MyDesign, and copy the complete contents of \Data\skins\artisteer31-blackngreen to that new folder.
4. Within Artisteer, I export MyDesign.artx as HTML, and copy all of the resulting files and folders to \Data\sites\1\skins\MyDesign, overwriting any files that have the same name.
5. I launch my site and change the skin to MyDesign. Hopefully everything will look good. If not, some CSS adjustments may need to be made.

Jamie

In Artisteer, on the Header, Menu, and Footer tabs, there is a toolbar option for Position (on the Footer tab it's labeled Length and Position). When you select that, you can choose how the header/menu/footer is positioned within in your design. What you have selected in those three places is what will determine which of the delivered Artisteer layouts you should overwrite with your exported design.

Jamie