I will disclaim loudly that this is my first attempt at a MODx site... I’ve looked around a lot, read a lot, and here goes.
One thing that isn’t clear to me is whether it’s just as easy (and effective) for me to create a page on my own and then replace the various elements with the MODx stuff, or whether there is a huge benefit to using a template with MODx somewhere in the name (MODx ported, ready, etc).
I know nuttin’ about php (and sure hope that doesn’t sink this ship), am pretty good at following instructions and asking questions, and not bad at all in putting together valid html/css pages.
Thanks for any thoughts on this!
higgy
One of the key points in MODx is tat you can easily adapt any template for MODx use. Once you have a valid html/css page designed you can substitute the menu for a wayfinder call and use the custom tpl features to get it just the way you want. That is why there are few MODx templates, basically any html document can be made into a template.
With MODx snippets you do not need any PHP skills to get some very cool features. Of course another key benefit of MODx is it’s extendibility, so with some PHP skills you can take it to new levels. But it is not required and plenty of great sites are built with out of the box snippets.
I would recommend that if you have not yet done so to install the demo site and see how it is built. This will give you a good view into how things are done. Then learn each of the key snippets as needed. You will most likely sue Wayfinder, Ditto and AjaxSearch in most of your projects so those would be the ones to focus on.
Thank you, both - all good news.
I assume that a fluid-width page won’t cause any problems along the way?
