[Tutorial] MODx and YAML - from zero to finished site

Here is a tutorial I found in the wild for building a site using MODx with YAML (why I don’t know but some folks may find it helpful)

MODx and YAML - from zero to finished site

Excerpt:

Why MODx? Because it just rocks if you have some markup skills.

In this tutorial we will start with an empty MODx and the default YAML 2 column left layout. In fact I just dropped all of YAML in a folder called mytemplate inside the MODx assets/templates folder.

One annoying thing is that per default MODx needs you to store the template in the database, editing HTML in a text area in the browser is not really cool. I’m sure this behavior can be overridden by some kind of snippet but I’m a noob so I just went with the default process...