MODx Evangelism: How Do We Get The Word Out And Convince Clients?

I don’t know...

How many of us MODx users use Dreamweaver? Not that many I bet. How many professional designers use Dreamweaver? Same deal.

I tried to like DW several times, but I still feel its a big hunk of bloated software that is difficult to use. The best advice I got way back was to stop trying to learn all the menus in DW and learn to write XHTML and CSS from scratch - this was great advice. I have not touched DW since, even though I legally own the latest version...

That is the beauty of MODx and snippets; rarely is it necessary to do more than small, simple snippets of PHP. And if more complicated code is needed, it’s easy enough to make a snippet with nothing more than

to include your PHP code from Dreamweaver or wherever.

Personally, I don’t trust any code, HTML or PHP or anything else that’s generated. What you get is what the code generator’s programmers think you should do, not necessarily what you really want to do.

Quote from: Photowebmax at Dec 05, 2009, 07:21 PM

I don’t know...

How many of us MODx users use Dreamweaver? Not that many I bet. How many professional designers use Dreamweaver? Same deal.

Disagree. I’d say it’s easily the most used development tool. If you explore all it has to offer it offers quite a lot to code heads but also does the WYSIWYG thing for those in that camp. We still use it for most of our coding of xhtml, css, php, and JavaScript and run into constantly when introducing developers and clients to MODx.

Hi Folks

I also would like to see MODx wider spread. It’s been a long journey for me before I found MODx and I am glad I did. I do not use any other CMS any longer.

I’ve checked a lot of them (Drupal, Typo3, Joomla, PHPWCMS, EE, WP, Silverstripe and several others) under certain aspects!

• Usability for the Enduser (Clients) - there is no better System than MODx
• 100% valid output - when I started to use MODx there where hardly no other system one had such a good control over the Output than MODx
• ease of use for me as a web designer (not developer) templating and so on - for me there is not better system so far
• The Community - the way one is being told that he is stupid in other forums is sometimes annoying. In the MODx Forum the help you get is quick and allways friendly - no tech geeks that have to proof themselves how great they are. Support is fast and good.

There are a lot of pluses for MODx - Wayfinder Ditto, PHX and a lot of others that, make this CMS extremely flexible.

YES MODx ROCKS

In the past a couple of times I was even able to replace typo3 setups with MODx because of its ease of use for the end user and there are a couple more to come.

One of the arguments I tend to use for MODx is a metaphor with cars. Just because a certain brand of cars you see all over, it is not necessary the best car, that is used so often. The same goes for CMS’s. Just because typo3, Joomla and the like are so widely used it doesn’t necessary mean they are perfect. It has to do with their time on the market first, before anything else.

I use to give potential clients links to sites produced with certain CMS’s to compare, that very often does the trick for MODx.

People who uses MODx do take care for Validity and Accessibility, this transports a certain message.

But I agree, we would need to spread the word about MODx better and wider. I am prepared to share my part to this.

bye for now
Beat

no tech geeks that have to proof themselves how great they are

We already know that

Its not only about "Evangelism". I have done my share of promoting MODx on various famous blogs.

However, I myself am not convinced [now] that MODx is right for me. After the initial excitement and learning the basics, I find that I have reached a ceiling where I need to be an expert in PHP to proceed further.

Whereas in Drupal I can build complex websites with just a little knowledge of PHP. There is an abundance of tutorials, examples, case studies, modules, etc. [Though sometimes chaotic.]

If I was an expert in PHP, MODx definitely would be my first choice [for complex websites]. Until then Drupal is my first choice.

MODx certainly has the best people in these forums. You cannot find such camaraderie in the Drupal forums.