"Baby Steps" Round One...

Phew!

Its slow going getting used to MODx!

I am attempting to convert a small static auto club site to MODx. I created two pages, the Home page and a Calendar page. I created a template that includes the layout, main navigation, banner, right column, footer and an intro paragraph to the left (main content) column. I created a [*content*] area and am able to add fresh content into that area using the File Manager. I also finally figured out how to link pages to each other by inserting [~id~] instead of my regular a:href links. My two pages render well and the CSS is working. So far so good...

Three Questions:

* I am running MODx using MAMP on my Mac but when I try to upload images using the editor the images will not load. I can navigate to them fine but nothing happens when I hit the Upload button.

* I am slowly getting into adding some dynamic snippets. I added the WebLogin snippet into my set right hand column in the main template. The text (User, Password, Rember Me etc) for the WebLogin is way too big. How can I style this? I see the code for this snippet is all table based?

* Also, how do you best handle the logins for users? How do you display the appropriate Login snippet so that when a new user opens the page he is presented with a "SIGN UP" panel, but when an existing user opens the page he is presented with a "LOG IN" panel and once the user is logged in he is presented with a "LOG OUT" panel?

I guess thats it for now.

Thanks in advance!

Max

* I am running MODx using MAMP on my Mac but when I try to upload images using the editor the images will not load. I can navigate to them fine but nothing happens when I hit the Upload button.

Mine works the same, I guess it has to do with the file system. I always just drag-n-drop the files when working locally so I never noticed this before.

* I am slowly getting into adding some dynamic snippets. I added the WebLogin snippet into my set right hand column in the main template. The text (User, Password, Rember Me etc) for the WebLogin is way too big. How can I style this? I see the code for this snippet is all table based?

Use the &tpl parameter and create your own template, there is a nice modern one available in the demo site chunks named FormSignup that could be a good starting point.

* Also, how do you best handle the logins for users? How do you display the appropriate Login snippet so that when a new user opens the page he is presented with a "SIGN UP" panel, but when an existing user opens the page he is presented with a "LOG IN" panel and once the user is logged in he is presented with a "LOG OUT" panel?

Not sure about this one. Before logging in there is no way to know if it is a registered user or not (you could create a cookie and check that). I would have the login form with a link to the signup page "if not registered".

Thanks!

That’s good info.