Hello, I am happy to be getting on-board with ModX. After years of using ’home grown’ solutions for content management I have been looking for a CMS structure that could adapt to whatever project and I feel confident that this is it.
I first heard of ModX about 6 months ago on the sitepoint forums and since then I have been ’kicking the tires’ with a local installation on my spare time. However for the last two weeks I have been doing serious evaluations since I have a few projects where I would like to count on the structure of a CMS. I must say that at first impression I thought that ModX may not be the ideal solution and went back to checking out other options. But all the others were just too limited or just odd to work with so I returned. This time I read most of the documentation (I am a slow reader so it takes time) and went through the ModX for beginners tutorial in the wiki and studied the companion apps, mostly dito and WF, and just went through as many forum posts as possible and found out that ModX will handle my current needs and more.
What really helped my out was this section in the forum. By seeing what others have accomplished I found out that what I am doing has already been done a few times. Specifically the university sites since that is one of my current projects.
I am still getting to speed and will get better once I get my hands on it. My main trouble point is learning how to think in ModX terms and to know when a snippet (or module or plugin or TV...still suffering with the terminology but will get it) will do what I want and when to do it yourself.
The most challenging part of the university project I am working on will be the user permissions/roles for the faculty and staff. But as I said I am confident that it can be done so I will worry about that when the time comes.
Anyway, don’t want to get too wordy here. Just say hello and get back to work.
Personal stuff: I am a US ex-pat but work out of Brazil, my background is originally in LAMP but for the last year or so I have been dedicated to CSS and business issues, but am getting back into the trenches. My participation here will grow as I get ModX smarts.
Welcome to our community and looking forward hearing about your adventures with MODx.
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