Wow, I really like the design on your site! I look forward to seeing the final product.
If you can create a current issue in MODx then you can certainly keep an archive of them. There are a few ways that this could be done of course but just moving everything to a different folder should work fine.
From the looks of what you have on the page now I’d think that MODx would work great for what you are tring to do. MODx gives you ane enormous amount of flexibility and control over what your site looks like and that seems to be what you need.
Hi aNoble, thanks for the compliment, at this point the content is really just an introduction. I’m planning on having MUCH better layouts once I’ve finalised the format. I’m glad to hear that MODX will be capable of handling this complex project.
On a side note, if a page is moved will it’s assets (images, swf files etc) be moved along with it or should I setup an asset directory structure reflecting the issue number beforehand?
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The page really isn’t moved at all, just its parent’s ID is changed. That’s one of the beauties of MODx, that virtual tree structure is just that, virtual, so absolutely nothing else gets changed.
Are all images stored within a table or do they reside within the physical "assets" directory and referenced from there?
All images will be reside on assets/images folder. If you use FCKEditor, they have image browser, which you can decide where you’re going to put your images to. When you move document parent to another parent, basically the mages will still be in the same directory on where you set it to in the first place.
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All images are stored in the physical file system. Usually assets/images, or wherever you like. I put images specific to a given template in the assets/templates/TheTemplate/images folder, while images displayed as part of the content, or images common to all templates (such as a logo) go in assets/images. The Resources Browser that works with the Rich Text Editor for editing documents is configured to use the assets/images folder.
Same with .css, .js, .swf files (although you can use a document as a css file if you want to.)
This website is awesome congrats, I really like how the articles on the main page are animated and scroll one at a time. Can you let me know how you did that?
but am really excited by the potential it displays. I’m busy developing an online surfing magazine (www.swellguys.co.za) and am planning to make "back issues" i.e. previous issues available.
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