mojoPortal Tips: How to Add and Edit Language-Specific Labels

Last Updated on Friday, 3 August 2012 11:29 Written by Carole Bennett Thursday, 30 August 2012 12:00

mojoPortal, like all content management systems, provides a great deal of control over the content displayed on a mojoPortal-based website. However, some basic components are not accessible via the content administration interface. These components are the labels such as the Login/Registration screens, administration dialogs, etc. Today, we’ll cover how to edit these labels.

mojoPortal intrinsically supports a wide array of languages, thanks to the efforts of a multi-lingual community. Not all languages are supported equally, due to available resources. Speaking of resources: the method by which these languages are supported is by using *.resx (resource) files, located in the App_GlobalResources folder under mojoPortal.Web:

How to Change the Default Banner Image on phpFox Installation

Last Updated on Saturday, 25 August 2012 12:58 Written by Stephanie Brown Wednesday, 29 August 2012 12:00

This article will focus on how to change the banner.png image that is loaded with the default installation of phpFox.

“How do I change that ugly world image on the main visitor’s page of my website?” I have seen this question posted a few dozen times on the phpFox forum.

The steps to changing this banner image are as follows:

mojoPortal Tips: Creating a Unique “Home” Navigation Menu Link

Last Updated on Friday, 3 August 2012 11:28 Written by Carole Bennett Sunday, 26 August 2012 12:00

Not too long ago, I received a request for a custom mojoPortal skin; since the site is baseball-oriented, the design incorporated a “Home Plate” for the “Home” link on the menu. I actually enjoyed working on this project very much – let’s take a look at how this was done.

Custom Home Link

nopCommerce Tips: Creating a Custom Layout, Part 5 – Customizing the Nop AnyWhere Slider

Last Updated on Friday, 3 August 2012 10:42 Written by Carole Bennett Thursday, 16 August 2012 12:00

Read Part 4 here!
Most designers/developers familiar with jQuery plugins have encountered, and most likely used, the fabulous Nivo Slider. It is absolutely possible to implement the Nivo Slider through a nopCommerce topic, to be incorporated in your nopCommerce solution – I’ve done it myself. However, that requires all sorts of manual manipulation of HTML, and can be incredibly tedious when multiple slides are included; it’s a pain for your users, and if you’re like me, the more they can do on their own, the more time there is to create even more wonderful things. Today, we’ll cover an alternative to the “roll-your-own” method: the Nop Anywhere Slider, and how to customize it to your design needs.

The Nop Anywhere Slider does contain two other slider styles: a standard 2D rotator, and a 3D rotator, but today we’ll focus on the Nivo Slider.

First, we’ll add the Anywhere Slider to our solution, in the “Plugins” folder under Nop.Web:

nopCommerce Tips: Creating a Custom Layout, Part 4 – Adapting Skins

Last Updated on Friday, 3 August 2012 10:42 Written by Carole Bennett Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:00

Read Part 3 here!
It’s safe to say that for every target demographic, there’s a unique approach that will best achieve your goal of reaching them. Whether it’s using a color scheme or graphics, or a layout that shows your product line off to its best advantage, there is no one storefront that will appeal to all demographics. It’s a given that you’ll want to customize your nopCommerce store’s appearance to appeal to your customers – let’s touch on ways to modify an existing skin for that purpose.

nopCommerce ships with two web themes: DarkOrange, and nopClassic, under Nop.Web/Themes.