Send Me Your Artisteer 3.1 Designs To Make Sure I get it working right

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12/7/2011 2:41:42 PM
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Send Me Your Artisteer 3.1 Designs To Make Sure I get it working right

Hi All,

Artisteer 3.1 was released on November 30 so we didn't get to support it in mojoPortal version 2.3.7.5, but I'm working on it now for the next release of mojoPortal that willl ship later this month.

Even for Artisteer 3.0 I feel like we did not have enough example skins to make it easy to convert all the possible variations that Artisteer 3.0 provided. It was possible to make any design from Artisteer 3.0 work but it often required making changes in the layout.master because of all the different ways that Artisteer designs can be configured. The variations are mainly based on the positioning of things such as the header or menu being inside the sheet or outside the sheet, etc. I'd like to be able to provide examples for each of the possible permutations, so I'm inviting you to help me by creating new designs in Artisteer 3.1 and sending me the .artx file (zip it first and email it to me at joe dot audette at g mail dotcom)

Please make sure the design has a 3 column layout, but other than that I'd like to see a wide variety. 

I promise not to share your design(s) unless you explicitely give permission. It would be nice if you do want to share, perhaps we will even ship your design in the next release or in the extra skins download, but my main goal is just to make sure that I'm able to convert the exported files into a mojoPortal skin. Please send me the .artx file though, not the exported files.

I'm going to upgrade the Artisteer 3.0 skins that we currently ship to Artisteer 3.1, but sometimes I think upgraded designs don't end up with the same things as designs created in the new version so my preference is to receive designs that were actually designd in Artisteer 3.1 rather than upgraded .artx files since I already have some of those.

Thanks in advance to anyone who sends me .artx file(s), and don't forget to mention whether the file(s) you are sending is to be kept private or if you are willing to share it with the community.

Best,

Joe

12/8/2011 3:48:54 AM
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Re: Send Me Your Artisteer 3.1 Designs To Make Sure I get it working right

Great news Joe - I will see what I can do on my new projects if my Artisteer upgrade window is still open.

J

12/22/2011 11:40:46 AM
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Re: Send Me Your Artisteer 3.1 Designs To Make Sure I get it working right

I am all over that, Joe -- glad I finally got my "personal life" sorted out so I could get back to the virtual kind -- we bought a house! 

Anyway, I opened the Artisteer30-topmenu .artx file, made some edits in colors, then exported it, but it didn't display correctly at all, the main content area was all overlapping the header and top menu, so I got rid of it and just made a few edits to my existing skin on my site -- crypticsites.net -- the newer versions of Mojo have really played hell with all my skins; recent commissions I've had, I had to just modify existing designs instead of trying to create a new one.  Some kind of pointers on how I could maybe update all my existing skins, which all worked up to version 2.3.6.5, would be really helpful. 

Meanwhile, I'll do some new designs, and send you the .artx files.  You're welcome to include them "bundled" with the other freebies in Mojo, but a link to crypticsites.net would be good -- that's really why I try to keep offering good free ones, to get more traffic and attention -- the SEs pay attention to that!

I keep begging the Artisteer tech support people to include Mojo skins in their offered options, but so far they haven't.  Idjits. Tongue Out

Andria

12/22/2011 11:54:37 AM
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Re: Send Me Your Artisteer 3.1 Designs To Make Sure I get it working right

Hi Andria,

I'll be shipping a new version of mojoPortal next week that will support Artisteer 3.1. I think this will be our best support of Artisteer ever in terms of how easy it will be to convert the html export to a skin. Our demo site is running the latest code and currently has a new set of Artisteer 3.1 skins.

Probably best to hold off until after this release before sending me any .artx files since I have enough already to make sure it is going to work well. After that if you'd like to send some extra skins to include in our exrta-skins.zip download I'd be glad to include them and  you can put a link in the footer of them to your site.

Once we make the new mojoPortal release next week, if anyone has any troiuble converting the Artisteer 3.1 html export to a skin using our updated instructions I'll be glad for them to send me the .artx file(s) so I can see what is different about the design and I can convert it to a skin.

Congrats on the new house!

Best,

Joe

12/27/2011 5:27:06 PM
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Re: Send Me Your Artisteer 3.1 Designs To Make Sure I get it working right

Sounds good -- I am all anticipation for the new version!  I've loved how easy it is to make a design in Artisteer -- at least, to get it started! -- and then convert it to Mojo skin, but with all the changes in Artisteer, that has kinda gone by the wayside; I'm looking forward to it being easy again!

Meantime, I've neglected my Joomla sites just as badly, during all this home-buying madness (3 months of insanity at the very least!), so I'll see about getting those updated while awaiting the new Mojo.

Hope you had a great xmas!

Andria

12/28/2011 8:14:55 AM
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Re: Send Me Your Artisteer 3.1 Designs To Make Sure I get it working right

mojoPortal 2.3.7.6 is now available

Best,

Joe

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