Newbie question?

I currently have a site on our server that was built in Dreamweaver Mac platform. How can I use Modx with my exisiting site? Do I have to recreate the entire site in Modx and will there be a conflict with our current site if I install Modx on our server?

Hi breed,

Some of your questions cannot be answered unless we know your site and server specifications. However, porting your site to MODx isn’t difficult. I suppose your site is html since it was built in DW? If that is the case, porting the template to MODx is breeze (almost). There could be ways to transfer the content other than using copy and paste - .e.g is you content in a database or they are just flat files? Please provide more info for a more definitive answer.

cheers/k

Hey Breed,

You are where I was 2 days ago! LOL...

You don’t need to recreate... IF you are handy with code, especially CSS. (I am dealing with a crash course currently)

The key is that you are unlearning a few ways of looking at sites.

MODx is based on TEMPLATES rather than "pages" or "layout". With that in mind... easiest (and overall messiest) way to deal with your issue is to take your pure HTML/XTML code and paste it in the "Document Code" area of the "New Template" form.

From there you begin to deconstruct and or replace...

There are two tutorials in particular that are hugely helpful for this stage:

Everrett’s video series:
http://www.tipsfor.us/2009/01/22/new-overview-of-modx-modx-series-part-ii/

And Mary’s blog based howto:
http://codingpad.maryspad.com/2009/03/28/building-a-website-with-modx-for-newbies-part-1-introduction/

They will get you up to the "I have imported it and started messing with functionality" stage.

Enjoy!

See also: http://bobsguides.com/porting-your-site-to-modx.html