mojoPortal Tips: Creating a Custom Skin, Part 4

Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 November 2012 12:46 Written by Carole Bennett Sunday, 25 November 2012 12:00

In today’s post, we’ll cover how to get your custom skin and contents to your staging/live server for review.

Before we begin, it’s a good idea to review “Pre-Configuring Content in mojoPortal” - this is one of the big helpers for getting a robust “live template” deployed to a different environment, without undue stress and headache.

Uploading the skin is fairly straightforward, but if you’re like most designers, your design doesn’t stop at the header and footer. On your local mojoPortal instance, lay out all your features as you want them to appear on the live site; you can use lorem ipsum content, if it’s easier for you at this stage, or you don’t have the final content as supplied by the client.

mojoPortal Tips: Creating a Custom Skin, Part 3

Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 November 2012 12:44 Written by Carole Bennett Thursday, 22 November 2012 12:00

In Part 1, we discussed tools for your basic design, and in Part 2, we discussed workflow pros and cons. Today, we’ll talk about how to fill the gap between our basic template, and the finished “live template” to be presented for actual content insertion.

Prerequisites for this stage; access to a working installation of the latest version of mojoPortal, your exported template from Artisteer, using Joe Audette’s free export plugin, and any third-party jQuery/graphic/CSS elements/web fonts you want to integrate into your finished design.