National Portrait Gallery in modx

Hi all.

We have just launched a redeveloped version of the British National Portrait Gallery website in modx. www.npg.org.uk

The project was in development for some time and so is built on modx 9.6.1, which despite being a risky choice at the time as a pre version 1 release has proven itself to be a fantastic development environment. The clients like it too.

There will be a phase 2 at some point to add further features. I’d like to see if we can squeeze a bit more speed out and migrate to the latest modx codebase as well so we can take advantage of future improvements (version control would be a massive advantage).

Any comments gratefully received

Steve Norris
www.cogapp.com

I like it, how did you get the print friendly option to work?

Sorry forgot to say the site was really fast for me, and my work internet is not that fast, the search however was a little slower.

ss

Great site. I like the design a lot.

I was fast for me, only very large pages took some time, but that is understandable.

If you don’t mind some questions:
1) what did you use for the Events Calander? Is that EasyEvents?
2) how did you do the Advanced search?

thanks for the comments. now for some answers.

the print friendly option is javascript only so not entirely accessible. There is a print stylesheet loaded at all times and the JS simply switches its media attribute between ’print’ and ’all’. If you do a view source it’s all there.

The events calendar is all custom code built within modx but essentially all events are entered using the same template. A plugin checks some template variables when you save the event and assigns it to a document group based on whether it has it’s own page or not. The search then just takes request variables to construct SQL that searches the templatevariables_contentvalue table.

All the collections stuff, including the advanced search page is running off a separate database and codebase piped through the modx front end.

nice website, shows off the flexibility of modx. Nice high end client to showcase modx at its best.

Very nice...I like

cheers/k

Excellent work!

Looks great! It’s also very functional, with loads of content - how big is the site, from a MODx documents point of view? Is all the data stored in MODx documents, or are you querying external tables/db’s?

Hope you don’t mind me prying! Just curious

Very nice site, but I came across several links that aren’t working. These all appear to be links which are missing the port number. http://www.npg.org.uk/annieleibovitz/terms.htm for instance won’t work while http://www.npg.org.uk:8080/annieleibovitz/terms.htm does (both links appear on the competition page. The competition form itself doesn’t appear to work either presumably for the same reason.