What did you use before MODx?

Quote from: vrdriver at Sep 06, 2011, 08:55 AM

What ever happened to the old forums? are they still active?

They have been completely imported into the new forums, so yes, they're still active!

I used to work as a developer on a nice commercial CMS/Ecommerce system called Odyssey/C8: http://www.chaptereight.com

I've tried quite a few open source and commercial CMS systems - MODX is the only one that has rivalled Odyssey in terms of development extensibility and "out of the box" usability.

I've recently started working freelance (still on my first job), so Modx is a God send.

It keeps developers happy, and the CMS is so intuitive that you could literally let your Gran loose on it and come back to find a WayFinder menu and neatly organised site content scheduled for publishing next Monday!



I also know of UK web agencies that use Modx most/all of the time now.
Companies are abandoning the development of their own in-house CMS in favour of MODX.

This is a very good sign - the commercial sector in the UK is quickly cottoning on to a much needed, flexible CMS that they can base their custom AND vanilla websites on.

From what I can see, donations should be flooding into Modx from agencies and freelancers...



It only takes a short leap of imagination to see Modx pulling some people away from Magento for ecommerce.

Dear TheNewManifesto - would you have time for a call sometime? Would love to pick your brains on the Agencies you know that are using MODX in the UK. Would be great to build up our base there.

Let me know!

James Bohan-Pitt
VP Business Development
MODX

Quote from: aNoble at Nov 07, 2005, 10:00 AM

Out of curiosity (and possible for documentation reasons) I'd like to know what some of our users were using before they switched to MODx. Or if you're planning your switch to MODx, let us know what you're using now.

Well, MODx is my first site. My cousin suggest to use MODx she said it's cool to be in here and she's right.
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Quote from: thenewmanifesto at Oct 14, 2011, 12:35 PM

I used to work as a developer on a nice commercial CMS/Ecommerce system called Odyssey/C8: http://www.chaptereight.com

I've tried quite a few open source and commercial CMS systems - MODX is the only one that has rivalled Odyssey in terms of development extensibility and "out of the box" usability.

I've recently started working freelance (still on my first job), so Modx is a God send.

It keeps developers happy, and the CMS is so intuitive that you could literally let your Gran loose on it and come back to find a WayFinder menu and neatly organised site content scheduled for publishing next Monday!

I also know of UK web agencies that use Modx most/all of the time now.
Companies are abandoning the development of their own in-house CMS in favour of MODX.

This is a very good sign - the commercial sector in the UK is quickly cottoning on to a much needed, flexible CMS that they can base their custom AND vanilla websites on.

This is interesting, I'd say it's time for some sort of MODx event in the UK. Most of the people I know are using Wordpress for their CMS-style sites - sometimes it's a better tool, but personally I prefer MODx for the flexibility it allows on the design side. It would be interesting to hear what's driving people to MODx when they use it, what they still think is missing, and also to introduce more people to MODx.

i did use Joomla on all of my other websites, but i am still considering ModX CMS because it looks to nice! escort amsterdam [ed. note: berenddegroot last edited this post 14 years, 7 months ago.]

Before I started working with Modx (pretty new still), I had only done wordpress or other simpler sites. I am excited to see all that it can do!

Most of the people I know are using Wordpress for their CMS-style sites - sometimes it's a better tool, but personally I prefer MODx for the flexibility it allows on the design side.

I can't stand using Wordpress as a CMS. I know a lot of people do successfully, and fair play to them, but a recent site I've had to do in Wordpress felt very hacky throughout. Admittedly I'm not an expert with Wordpress but I prefer to use it only for blogs which is its primary (or original) purpose anyway.

Before MODx I would have used a popular framework so at least there's documentation and some sort of support out there. Oh and Drupal as well.

Wordpress and Joomla!

A few sites with each. Was tossing up using Drupal, Expression Engine or MODX. MODX got picked because of the apparent versatility and seemed to be very cutting edge in the CMS relm. Drupal sounded like a steep learning curve and that it might be a pain in the butt to do a lot of things. Expression Engine sounded very similar to MODX in application and there seemed to be trade offs as far as one doing something a little better than the other, but EE costs money for each deployment AND every add-on you use also costs money!

Wordpress has come a long way and folks are using it for all kinds of things. To me though it started as a blog type CMS and if you just want to throw up a quick and simple blog it does that well. Beyond that it's a real pain in the butt. Plus I never liked the admin area.

Joomla! was OK but seemed like you had 15 add-ons that did the same thing and non of them really did it well. Spent all my time hunting down a decent add-on or trying to customize it to work for me.

I thought I knew MODX well after implementing it a couple times. Little did I know the more I come to find out the more things I discover can be done with it. Glad to be using it and I am very very happy I finally shelled out a few bux and got BobRay's guide. Highly recommended especially to newcomers and experienced novices like me!

Wordpress and Joomla!

A few sites with each. Was tossing up using Drupal, Expression Engine or MODX. MODX got picked because of the apparent versatility and seemed to be very cutting edge in the CMS relm. Drupal sounded like a steep learning curve and that it might be a pain in the butt to do a lot of things. Expression Engine sounded very similar to MODX in application and there seemed to be trade offs as far as one doing something a little better than the other, but EE costs money for each deployment AND every add-on you use also costs money!

Wordpress has come a long way and folks are using it for all kinds of things. To me though it started as a blog type CMS and if you just want to throw up a quick and simple blog it does that well. Beyond that it's a real pain in the butt. Plus I never liked the admin area.

Joomla! was OK but seemed like you had 15 add-ons that did the same thing and non of them really did it well. Spent all my time hunting down a decent add-on or trying to customize it to work for me.

I thought I knew MODX well after implementing it a couple times. Little did I know the more I come to find out the more things I discover can be done with it. Glad to be using it and I am very very happy I finally shelled out a few bux and got BobRay's guide. Highly recommended especially to newcomers and experienced novices like me!