"Since releasing those 10 good looking skins the popularity of mojoPortal seemed to spike upwards fairly dramatically so I concluded that the time spent implementing those skins was well spent and the lack of good looking skins prior to that probably really was holding us back in terms of popularity...Currently we ship about 30 skins with mojoPortal, 10 of which are good looking and 20 that are just ok or mediocre, or just outdated looking. So I'm thinking its time to drop out most of the boring ones and do another round of 10 skin implementations to bring us up to 20 good looking skins."

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A new book that teaches users how to create themes for Drupal websites has been announced today by Packt Publishing. Written by prominent open source and Content Management expert Ric Shreves, ‘Drupal 5 Themes’ helps readers create striking new looks for their Drupal websites.

Drupal is an award winning open source Content Management System, finishing as the overall winner in the 2007 Open Source Content Management System Award. Based on PHP/MySQL, its power and flexibility combined with exceptional design, means it is already on the way to becoming the de facto standard for CMS websites. Drupal’s modular design and structured source code make it both highly flexible and easily extended and modified. Drupal is extremely scalable, making it ideal for both a simple personal website as well as an industrial strength commercial or institutional web presence.

"XOOPS is changing its look, thus, with the support of the Design Team, we decided to launch a Theme Contest to choose 3 new designs to be released with the next major XOOPS release and beyond. The contest is open to all : individual, group, or web agency (professional or not).

Now is your opportunity to take mouse and keyboard in hand and create the new XOOPS look"

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"The incredible new RocketTheme Dimensions template [for Joomla!] features a beautiful new look and feel designed to allow for the quickest and easiest customization of any RocketTheme template to date. Change your background and customize your colors in minutes without ever setting foot in an image editor.

Dimensions also introduces a sleek new integrated tabbed module system that harnesses the power of RokSlide, providing you with a powerful new way to display your content. The features don't stop there. Dimensions has many more powerful features under the hood, including the exclusive RokMooMenu, 15 versatile module positions with subtle module variations, RokZoom integration, and so much more!"

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We would like to look to the community for inspiration on this, so, if you would like the chance to have your theme design become the new default, just let us know."

RoopleTheme proudly announces the launch of our website, roopletheme.com. RoopleTheme wants to provide the best Drupal themes and modules available anywhere. Along with the launch of our site, we're releasing the first alpha version of our new LiteJazz theme.

LiteJazz is a beautiful theme that features 12 fully collapsible regions, fluid or fixed widths, easy configuration, and more. To take a look at LiteJazz in action, visit our demo site. LiteJazz is free to download and use on your own Drupal site. Visit our download page to get the latest version.

RoopleTheme.com also features a new visual tutorial titled Installing Drupal With CPanel. We think it's one of the better Drupal tutorials on the web. We would enjoy hearing what you think.

I thought it might make a good quick article to explain how we're doing the [ ] search box on the new Lullabot site.

First off, the basis of this site is the Zengine theme engine...The page.zen.php that we're using in the Lullabot theme is only a slightly modified version of the original page.zen.php included with Zengine (which you can see here).

If you have not heard, Drupal 5.0 went into beta last week. I had intended to write a little bit about the new features users can expect with this new version of the content management system. However, I've been so busy with a couple IT projects as well as some family events that I have not had time to even touch Drupal 5 beta 1.

Luckily, there are smarter and more dedicated people out there already posting about anything I could say about Drupal 5. The following are links to what I consider as the top three blog posts on Drupal 5.0:

• A new default theme for Drupal? by Steve Wittens
• Drupal distributions by Dries Buytaert
• Drupal 5.0 changelog by Steven Peck

Each of the posts I have listed are well worth the time spent reading if you wish to know more about the upcoming Drupal 5.

Just saw a post from Joe Audette that mojoPortal.com has a new look. A Jasmin Savard created the new theme (skin). We agree with Audette, the old theme was showing its age and we wish mojoPortal the best of luck on its new look.

mojoPortal is one of the few non-PHP CMS that we keep on our radar scope. mojoPortal is written in C# and runs under ASP.NET on Windows or under mono on Linux or Mac.

Evidently there is a hunger for an open source CMS with roots in Microsoft applications because we always draw a large crowd here when we mention mojoPortal. Mentioning mojoPortal here is a lot like mentioning "Denny Crane", William Shatner's character on the show Boston Legal.

Watch this...mojoPortal. See new visitors keep coming everytime I mention the name! By the way, to mojoPortal fans...welcome to CMS Report.

"One year after starting the XOOPS Site of the Month contest we now have 12 winner. We have seen many different examples of different XOOPS usage in the last year. I'll love to see the next 12 winner and more great layout and content examples.

This month winner is lebuccaneer.com."

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