What did you use before MODx?

I’ve used:

• e107 for nearly 4 years on 6 sites.
• osCommerce once.
• Wordpress once.
• Typo3 "almost" once.
• MODx on 5 sites in the last year.

I’m so glad I invested the time to learn MODx!

Well, thank you for sharing !

What did you find in MODx that you missed in other CMS ?

Hello, I’m new here

I’m still learning ModX and don’t feel confident enough to use it for client websites.
Until that moment I use Joomla. I’ve crerated many many Joomla based sites and templates.

I’m thrilled about ModX, especially about the user rights management and the full CSS templates and SEO possibilties.
Will let you know when my playgarden becomes a live site

Regards,
Rene

Welcome

Once you’ve wrapped your head around the MODx logic, I think you’ll find it’s quite powerful and will open doors Joomla would have made very hard to cross

You’ll also notice your time-to-delivery is way shorter and customizability will improve a LOT...

Quote from: davidm at Jan 21, 2008, 09:03 AM

Welcome

Thankyou!

Quote from: davidm at Jan 21, 2008, 09:03 AM

Once you’ve wrapped your head around the MODx logic, I think you’ll find it’s quite powerful and will open doors Joomla would have made very hard to cross
You’ll also notice your time-to-delivery is way shorter and customizability will improve a LOT...

I hope so! For Joomla there’s quite a lot functionality available. It’s a nice challenge to find snippets and chunks with the same functionality.
But with an active community this shouldn’t be to hard

Quote from: webguy at Jan 21, 2008, 09:08 AM

I hope so! For Joomla there’s quite a lot functionality available. It’s a nice challenge to find snippets and chunks with the same functionality.

But with an active community this shouldn’t be to hard

I don’t think it will (be hard)
As you say, this forum never sleeps

Most of my website design and programming has been with Dreamweaver, perl and php in the "old days".
In the last few years, I’ve just used vi to code my xhtml & css.
I played around with Plone, Nucleus, Mambo, Joomla and Drupal, and Wordpress.
I currently use Drupal and am experimenting/learning with MODx.

Jim

Well, this sure will prove interresting to see how you compare Drupal and MODx, since I regard Drupal to be the only real MODx competitor !

Quote from: davidm at Jan 25, 2008, 09:34 AM

Well, this sure will prove interresting to see how you compare Drupal and MODx, since I regard Drupal to be the only real MODx competitor !

Unfortunately, sometimes, some clients insist on using a .NET/C# based solution, even for their websites (though our success rate at getting them to use LAMP with MODx isn’t too bad.) I recently found this open source .NET/C# CMS that looks kind of like a nice solution for those projects you have to use that programming model for, Umbraco. It seems to have a similar philosophy in regards to compliance, SEO, and templates but I’ve been unable to get a look at it as yet as you need to be running Windows 2003 Server (there is an XP tutorial but I couldn’t get it to work.)

I’ve been looking around for a very customizable CMS/CMF before I ended up with MODx.

It’s when I tasted Joomla/Mambo with some older websites that needed upgrading, that I decided to choose an open source cms instead of custom building dynamic sites, only if it would _NOT_ look and act like mambo/joomla. After extensive searching/testing via opensourcecms.com I really liked the way MODx handled everything...

So I just went for it it and decided to immediately combine learning MODx with building a new site. More sites are on the way, all built with MODx... After a couple of months I still learn more neat tricks with MODx every day!

Doing some work on automatic TV<-->snippet parsing (dropdowns as well as conditional statements) now...
Next thing I want to explore is the possibility of making css dynamic. Beautyful framework! Endless posibilies! And oh-my, what will the new MODx bring us? After reading some (blog)posts about the next version, I can hardly wait to get my hands on it!!

Will be posting the sites one of these days on the approiate testimonial forum!