mojoPortal Tips: The Importance of Controlling Content Access by Role

Last Updated on Tuesday, 2 April 2013 11:37 Written by Carole Bennett Thursday, 4 April 2013 12:00

When you have a customer who wishes to control access to content, it’s best to sort out the most extensible and supportable way of doing so. Thankfully, mojoPortal provides an easy solution to allow content access control.

Initially, the customer wanted to be able to simply issue a single user name and password to provide content access; while this might be initially easier to manage, it’s a huge security and data capture leak. Here’s why:

nopCommerce Tips: Review of the Nop Customer Reminder

Last Updated on Monday, 1 April 2013 05:21 Written by Carole Bennett Tuesday, 2 April 2013 12:00

I’ll admit it; I’m one of those people. I love to window-shop, and price-comparison, and bargain-hunt. I’ve made it a rule that if I want to buy something, even if I add it to the shopping cart, I have to give it a certain amount of time before I click that “buy” button. My theory has always been that if I really want it, I’ll remember to go back for it later. Some of my favorite sites have gotten wise to this tactic, and send me “cart reminders”, to keep those items fresh in my mind. nopCommerce-based sites can now offer the same functionality, using the new Nop Customer Reminder by Nop-Templates.

nopCommerce Tips: Review of the Nop Quick View Plugin

Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 March 2013 07:57 Written by Carole Bennett Thursday, 28 March 2013 12:00

The out-of-the-box configuration of nopCommerce provides a very impressive level of functionality for most e-commerce needs. However, with the addition of 3rd-party products, a truly professional level of presentation can be achieved. Today, we’ll cover the newest nopCommerce plugin from Nop-Templates, the Nop Quick View.

The Nop Quick View is best used on sites with a large amount of products per category. Rather than the click-into-product, and then back, and possibly losing your place in the category or search results, the Quick View allows the user to hover over the product icon, and then click on a “Quick View” button that allows more detail to be displayed in a lightbox format. Here’s an example:

mojoPortal Tips: Updating Your Artisteer 3.1 Skin for mojoPortal 2.3.9.5

Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 March 2013 10:39 Written by Carole Bennett Wednesday, 27 March 2013 12:00

I’m always delighted to see the latest improvements and enhancements in the mojoPortal CMS; however, when applying upgrades that include significant UI changes, there can be challenges with customized UI themes. Here’s some ways to make your legacy Artisteer 3.1-based skins work with the latest version of mojoPortal, 2.3.9.5

Upgrade to Artisteer 4.1

nopCommerce Tips: Let Your Customers Filter Products by Color

Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 March 2013 10:36 Written by Carole Bennett Tuesday, 26 March 2013 12:00

It’s not uncommon for e-commerce sites to be centered around fashion; and of course, one of the main components of fashion is color. Quite often, your customers will want to search on fashion products based on color schemes, which can be more than a little problematic. Here’s how to solve your dilemma using nopCommerce.

First, we’ll go on the premise that you have a working nopCommerce-based site already set up, and products with descriptions already loaded and ready to go.