How did you find MODx?

I was going over some old bookmarks and I found one that marked the exact moment that I first heard about MODx. I learned of MODx’s existence while reading a blog post in Site Point with the title: I’ve Never Met a Boxed CMS I Like. At that time I had tried a few CMS but did not like any of them, and had actually given up on finding the right CMS. I was the 9th comment and there had already been 3 comments that mentioned MODx that caught my attention and here I am. I was skeptical at first, the post was Sept 2006 and I only registered in the forum on May 2007, but MODx delivered what it promised (and continues to do so).

Ironically the blog author was talking about a .net CMS so it was luck that MODx was even mentioned..or was it? 

So how did you make your way over to MODx?

Well, i was only beginning to learn php and needed to put a website quickly.

I first tried Joomla and Spip. I stayed with Joomla for a personal project and went into several problem and was not satisfied about the fact that all Joomla websites looked alike.

I had a professional website totally programmed from the ground and don’t wanted to give him a joomla look.
But in the mean time, i needed a real backend and solid user system.

On a french forum, i read a lot of people comments and love the description of MODx given by davidm.

I tried it and it was flexible enough for my taste. Even though i did not learn all the features right away.
MODx gave me a good user system and contact form, but i used Ditto/Jot nearly 2 years later.

Well, i’m totally in love it now

I had tested tons of cms applications, in that time I found etomite and really loved it but lost the link!! Than after a few years I suddenly found MODx, don’t know anymore where it was, but I saw it was etomite and found out it was even better.

In the beginning I used PostNuke, and then I moved over to Joomla. But after using Joomla for a while and being frustrated over the lack of flexibility, I decided to find another system. I had seen modx a year earlier, but it was immediately after an experiment with Typo3, and I thought it looked equally difficult. But then I tried modx again, and have not searched any more since. Found it via opensourcecms.com.

I started off using phpNuke setups and quickly realised it wasn’t the best or safest option... however I will give it credit for being what made me follow a route to being a web dev. After several months trying to figure out the themes, creating my own and then realising that I couldn’t do what I wanted very easily, I begun my search for creating my own.

I found a nice site called roscript which had some nice tuts on how to begin php and creating login systems... It opened my eye up to other CMS out there. I had a look at Drupal and Joomla and again realised that hacking things to how I want was a long process and was beginning to think that I would never find a CMS that suited me.

I spent about 3 weeks researching what I really wanted to do and for future ideas, which brought me to MODx’s site. I checked out the site, seen that the community was very active and the software was easy installed. 18 months or so on, I’m still here. I refuse to work with anything else other than MODx as I know it’s able to achieve what other CMS fail too. I have forced myself to work harder, ask for help when needed and now I’m able to help out others.

I’m very new to MODx (think I found it about 3 or 4 weeks ago) and I’ve never been keen on CMS’. I’ve always put plans into developing my own CMS but never really had the time ... other CMS’ I’d tried (mambo/joomla, droopal etc.) just hadn’t lived up to my expectations and I always felt that they were ridiculously bloated, required a lot of time developing templates, and required much more processing power by the server than necessary. I came across MODx when having a final sweep through open source CMS’ to make sure I wasn’t missing out on something special before I began writing a simple CMS for a client site and within half an hour I’d come to the conclusion that if I would have created my own ideal CMS it would probably have been very similar to MODx. I was sold.

Within two hours I’d converted my own site from a simple db driven site to a MODx driven site and am currently working on moving a large website which includes interaction with MSSQL databases and other live feeds. It’s completely changed my way of web development and changed my mind about CMS’.

Awesome product, well done.

http://www.cmsmatrix.org/

I was trying to find a simplest solution to a web management for our organization, to swept the previous joomla installation.
It was a pain to explain the back-end management to a non-techy web editors.
I was indeed a seasonal hard-coder person, for my own website.
Zend studio was my best friend.
Now, i mostly only need notepad++ to whole website, and use eclipse once or twice just for a code digging or deep hacking. 

I used to make static webpages and was looking into learning PHP, when I got to take over a disastrous webpage
made with joomla. Before this joomla I thought of Dreamweaver as _limiting_ ... Well, the client needed to edit content
easily and sure this was pretty easy. I bought a joomla book and was some fascinated.

But as a designer and with a wish to be all _special_ I couldn’t take it. Remembering back to the days with freedom
and 100% control. In a google search I saw the name ---=[ MODx ]=--- Checked it out... and now today I remember
the old days being no-can’t-do and loneliness. Thank YOU MODx for givin me super powers!

MODx separates control logic, from presentation logic. And it’s Priceless.

I could say that I have always been with MODx. First I found Etomite back in 2004 I think. I was developing an e-participation service and wouldn’t want to start the project from zero. Back then my other candidates were Mambo and custom solution with Smarty. But when I learned Etomite could swallow pure php code I immediately picked it for the project.

Then I remember when MODx split form Etomite and I thought is this the end of the great software project. Well, luckily I joined to the MODx project early on and followed it to grow fast. Never been a very active member but still followed MODx closely all the time. And now nearly all my work involves MODx in a way or other.

Wikipedia - they have an open source CMS section.

My fallback position has changed from "I don’t know if I can do that" to "I can figure it out". It has changed everything for me. I was at a www.refreshcentralarkansas.org meeting last night trying to convert the masses.