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    So. After playing with Drupal for about a week I have discovered modx, WOO HOO!! I am much more a designer than a developer, and I think modx can hep me bring my vision to reality. Good times! I have so far developed my theme and figured out how to post into the relevant ares of the theme. However I am little stuck on what to do now....

    I’m trying to develop a site for an art gallery. This is quite simple, I want to have a number of artists details stored, along side lots of images of paintings, each artist would be related to many images. Each image should have its own information such as price or size, and I want to be able to search for an Artist and bring up the relevant info into a predtermined format. I’d also like my client to be able to add artist information in one place, i.e log on upload all of the info and a bunch of images. I can already visualize how it would be written in PHP, I could even write the CMS to go with it but I cannot fathom how I would start in modx. I understand the basics of "chunks" and "snippets" but where do I start???

    Can anyone give me the nudge in the right direction I need? Thanks

    Ash laugh
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      Your artists are just pages in MODx. On each page u can have a custom gallery created using the below.

      Regarding Galleries, MAXi Gallery is a snippet that allows you to create image galleries. It has some nice lightbox effects too.
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        Yes but it’s awfully complicated to have to design a whole page for each artists, preferably i would like to enter some information which would then be echoed out into a predefined format.

        Ash
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          Quote from: ashleyward at Oct 30, 2009, 10:51 AM

          Yes but it’s awfully complicated to have to design a whole page for each artists, preferably i would like to enter some information which would then be echoed out into a predefined format.

          Thats what templates are for. Create a general artist page template, use TV’s in order to enter the information.