How about a MODx gallery?

When I first started evaluating CMS/site frameworks, one of the things that I really enjoyed was a site gallery. I missed that here, but fortunately that didn’t keep me from seeing what a jewel MODx is.

For instance, with some CMS’s, you can tell from their gallery that the CMS is going to lock you into one layout, orientation, or convention. Others may show a greater diversity in site structures and layouts and therefore more promise to the inexperienced developer. Some may show a complete disregard for CSS and XHTML standards, using tables and hacks, while others (like MODx) leave that up to the designer, which will always yield some fantastic results.

I think that more advanced web developers can look strictly at descriptions and documentation and understand what the CMS is capable of and what its limitations are, but for the beginner web developers transitioning to intermediate, I think a site gallery goes a long way in showing its potential. It also helps us "visual" learners.

Perhaps a locked forum that only moderators can access, with each new post being a site in the gallery? That seems like it would be easy to maintain, current users could subscribe, and you link to it from the site’s main content. I understand we have a "You and Your Sites" forum, but that seems to be geared more towards the current-user crowd than the overwhelmed n00b surfing the web for a CMS.

Good points. A visual medium is always stimulating.

This forum woks a galery for me, there is some great work displayed here.

Here is a modx site gallery, don’t know who runs it but i seems to have grown a little since I last saw it: http://www.modx.it/

Thanks for the link; that’s a great gallery.

*shrouds himself with mystery*

Hmmm...a site gallery you say...

There may be plans to do site features and other such things on the MODx site soon. Keep watching!

I agree. A case study type thing would be cool. this was the problem and the solution was X (or should I say modX). I agree that pretty pictures are only superficial, to really see what can be accomplished you need to see HOW it was done.

Lets just say we’re onto the case study/featured MODx deployments and more.

There is much coming in 2008 (not the least of which is 097) to showcase MODx and to really turn heads and inspire users and developers to push their implementations.

Quote from: smashingred at Feb 28, 2008, 02:18 PM

Lets just say we’re onto the case study/featured MODx deployments and more.

There is much coming in 2008 (not the least of which is 097) to showcase MODx and to really turn heads and inspire users and developers to push their implementations.

OK, now you’ve done it! I was curious, then i was interested...but now I am anxious. Things just keep getting better every day

Quote from: ganeshXL at Feb 28, 2008, 01:31 PM

Thing is, pretty pictures won’t tell you much in terms of the functionality underneath. With MODx, you can create EVERYTHING you can visually do with HTML/CSS/JS. Take ANY layout out there: You can transform that into a working MODx site. Heck, people here have even used MODx to power their full-Flash sites!

I can understand that perspective, but I’ve also seen some CMS galleries where you CAN tell much in terms of the functionality underneath. In other words, you can tell that you’re going to be locked in to a rigid table-based layout where navigation is always here, content is always there, etc.

I think it’s worth having a gallery just so shoppers can see that you’re NOT locked into anything with MODx. Plus it would be fun to browse.

That’s the main reason I have the Mondrian template as my loripsum.co.uk homepage template. It’s actually pretty useless, but it’s a good demo of what can be done.