UltraEdit.com realigned with MODx

We had been using Dragonfly as our CMS for years. The CMS, as popular as it was, used a rigid table-based layout and provided very little control over supplemental content.

I warmed our execs up to the idea of MODx. At first they didn’t really see how another open-source PHP-based CMS would offer any advantage over what we were using, but after a few meetings they reluctantly agreed to let me proceed with the migration. Even though I was thrilled with MODx from the start, I really had no idea how incredible the CMS was as far as giving us control of our layout and supplemental page content. Our VP, the salesman, is stoked over the targeted-marketing the CMS now provides through the TVs I’ve set up.

My only regret is that I don’t know enough about PHP/MySQL or AJAX to probably get the most out of the CMS, but what we’ve done so far with my limited knowledge is leaps and bounds beyond what Dragonfly offered. I did learn a lot through all of this though, through small modifications to snippets like eForm, AjaxSearch, Ditto, and others.

I still have some kinks to work out on the site (please don’t run it through a validator! ), but our user response so far has been very positive. The navigation is much easier and information is much more easily accessed. The site degrades very well. We serve tens of thousands of international visitors every day, and I’m very proud to be using MODx as the framework for our site!

Thanks, MODx developers! I never posted much, if at all, on the forum while I was putting the site together; I found most of the answers to my questions through searching the forums, the MODx Wiki, or plain trial-and-error. I am still amazed at the intuitiveness, power, flexibility, and control provided by MODx. I do not understand why this isn’t the most popular CMS in the world - from all the others I looked at on opensourcecms.com, MODx was in my eyes far superior.

Anyway, enough with rambling - head on over to our new MODx-managed site and check it out: http://www.ultraedit.com

Thanks,

Ben

congrats. very nice site.
I’ve been using UE for a while now and love it. I guess great editors make great choices

Really nice site, I’ll give the free trial a go as well.

I’ve used UltraEdit in the past and absolutely found it indispensable; I spend most of my time in Eclipse now, but IMHO, it’s an honor to have a web site for such a great product on the list of sites deployed with MODx. Kudos for the great job on the new site, and thanks for all the kind words (which we will of course be commandeering for our testimonials).

Wow, great site, love it!

Very nice site. I’m especially impressed by the speed. It’s loading really fast.

Since we see a fair amount of questions here in the forums about MODx performance ("how many pages", query-/parsing time, efficiency in general), can you tell us a bit about the setup? What kind of traffic do you guys get on average, what server setup do you use?

Also, did you do those Apache redirects now? I remember we emailed a few times last autumn; you were afraid to lose Google page-rankings after the switch etc.

Thats a great site for a very interesting product. Well done.

*print, pins to wall in office*

Great testimonial. Very nicely designed site. Glad you and your executives are enjoying it!

*jots down contact information*

UltraEdit is a great editor and the site looks fantastic.

Thanks for letting us know.

Bob

Very nice site.

Small typo:

Plish translation - Janusz Grzybek