No, not my steak!
, but really what do I put as the subject for what I am about to post? and again, hope this is the right place for this...
I have installed modx on the remote server with just a few doubts and problems, all steming from lack of experience.
Within four days I was able to port a static xhtml/pure css static site (well it was .php, but for cheesy little things I didn’t want to worry myself about, you know the call from a client: "hey my copyright date doesn’t work, I may be hungover but today is january 1st 2010!"
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I have to send my sincere gratitude to the devs of this incredible CMS! It was practically painless, and the learning curve was as close to nil as you could get!
I have checked safari, ff, ie 8, and both ie 6 and 7 via virtual box, as well as opera and Konqueror....
really perfect! all the css is exactly as it was on the static site, including my menus!! YEAH for wayfinder.
all the forms for login and email took the css via copying the original chunk into a custom chunk and then adding the proper classes there...
I learned that I can get all the elements which relied upon javascript to work by creating individual chucks with these, adding the html code directly to the content of each page via the editor than placing those chunks in their appropriate areas above or below the code as it would appear normally in a static site. (I figured this one out all by my lonesome
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the install was almost as painless except for a fiasco created by my own misunderstanding of the environment...I had scroogled to see when to use .htaccess and php.ini and some mentioned cgi environments required php.ini all the way through...that was an experience with as many directories modx has.
but lets just say I came across modx strictly by accident, I have been looking for a cms for awhile and of course I ran across the usual, joomla! drupal, wordpress, I’ve even tried Joomla! (the worst) and drupal but I just could get it right, my designs alwasy came out like somekind of Chernobyl mutant fish.
it wasn’t until I was researching a supposedly "easy" CMS for designers (one which I will NOT mention, and costs quite a few bucks for a commercial deployment) I reached an obscure blog site of a fan of aforementioned CMS, and began to read this individual go on and on about how paid proprietary software is inherently more secure than open source, (I guess this person has never heard of Linux or BSD before and how these communities audit heavily code). When I reached the end of the blog post, I was furious, I use windows for adobe (emulators don’t cut it), but linux for everything else, including MAYA, I didn’t want anything to do with the proprietary "easy" CMS, and scanned the responses to see if anyone called the blogger out on his point of view, well none did...except one, and that person said one word: "MODX"
that’s it, I am hooked, I am not going anywhere else, this HAS to be the norm for future content management systems because I tell you, from a designers point of view, this is shangri-la!!
my thanks go out to the modx dev team, you guys are truly righteous! and thanks to that awesome wayfinder guide by Kongondo!! And to everyone here who took a moment or two to enlighten a dolt.
Really, I can NOT thank you guys enough and wish you get everything you deserve for empowering people.
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