What did you use before MODx?

I went on a PHP-Nuke - > e107 -> MODx route. I’m still a developer of plugins and modifications for the e107 CMS, since that’s where a lot of money is still to be earned, but I see MODx as having the best community out there - something unmatched by any other CMS I’ve come across. I’m just worried that with age and growth in popularity, this CMS’s community might snowball out of the control of its core team.

It’s a sad risk to face, but something I’ve seen happen gradually to e107. Consequently, I would urge the great developers and team to keep clear sights on what you want MODx to become, which directions it will take in the future, and to expand your core team if possible to keep in proportion to the number of users this fantastic CMS gains.

I hope MODx earns the popularity it deserves now!
-Smoothie

I’ve not actually "switched" to MODx yet, but am still learning it and playing with it.

Previously I’ve used phpwebsite http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/ which I am certainly not in love with, but it’s the first CMS that I used to build a database driven website for a client of mine. It works, but it sure is rough around the edges.

I’ve also been playing with websitebaker http://www.websitebaker.org which seems pretty nice to me. Really easy to get going with it and the community and support is good.

Along the way I’ve also enjoyed playing with CMSmadesimple http://cmsmadesimple.org/ which is pretty easy to get going with as well.

I’ve also used TextPattern which I think is, for me anyway, one CMS that I may end up using more often than not.

MODx is still giving me some conceptual problems that I’m dealing with. The terminology of snippets and such makes my eyes get cloudy. I’m not a programmer of any sort and previously have used mostly static HTML and CSS produced in BBEdit.

I’m not so sure I’ll ever settle on just one CMS. As another poster noted, I’d probably be inclined to use a CMS that best suits the project. I must say that SEF URL’s are a big issue with me and I desire to use them whenever possible.

Anyway, I like MODx and hope to get over my inadequacies with it. I love seeing the incredibl sites that have been developed using MODx.

Michael

I’ve been using modX for just over a week and am waiting for the hammer to drop, meaning, I have it installed on 3 sites for testing and so far no major problems have happened which almost seems a little too good to last - but fingers crossed

Previously I’d used Mambo installations and Limbocms. I’m also on the development team of ’a’ rival cms and have been leading the core rewrite to xhtml tableless for css layouts and semantic markup! I’ve put that on hold after having discovered modX - because there’s no point reinventing the wheel.

That being said, modX isn’t really "out-there" as a mentionable cms the public has very little knowledge of it, I certainly stumbled across it quite by accident.

Lucky find! . . . so far so good

Quote from: Starbuck at Mar 16, 2006, 12:31 PM

I’m also on the development team of ’a’ rival cms and have been leading the core rewrite to xhtml tableless for css layouts and semantic markup!

A very Joomla-like profile

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I’ve put that on hold after having discovered modX - because there’s no point reinventing the wheel.

Yeah well, to me that’s one major reason not to use "older" systems : it’s pretty hard to clean up and redesign an application. Prior to using MODx I had been eager to see Mambo take advantage of XMambo team members joining the team to help do some cleaning (correct me if I am wrong there). After that, I’ve kept a skeptic eye on Joomla, and things seem to be moving but not fast enough to hope for a modern template system as flexible as the one we got (though patTemplate seemed to be a progress).

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Lucky find! . . . so far so good

Well, glad to have someone like you interrested in MODx

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That being said, modX isn’t really "out-there" as a mentionable cms the public has very little knowledge of it, I certainly stumbled across it quite by accident.

Well, not yet, but we are and we will be working on it !

So far I have made quite some noise on the french side (MODx is the hot thing right now) and on Textpattern’s forum, but I think we’ll reach a wider audience in the future... like you, I found MODx on the late. (which is pretty telling, since I am doing heavy scanning of new opensource projects, but MODx wasn’t on SourceForge, Freshmeat or Opensourcecms... that’s why).

I found MODx when it got a demo on opensourcecms.com, back in october 2005.

But enough ramblings, welcome on board !!!

I’m all for multi-nationalization, but the non-english results in search give me a ’first’ impression that language might be a hurdle. Has that ever been mentioned by other newbies? The forum seems rather fractured there may be important posts, important "issues" but in French . . . which is great if you can read it (I’m able to make out some of the words to get the general feel for what’s being talked about) what have others said ?

Quote from: Starbuck at Mar 16, 2006, 01:36 PM

I’m all for multi-nationalization, but the non-english results in search give me a ’first’ impression that language might be a hurdle. Has that ever been mentioned by other newbies? The forum seems rather fractured there may be important posts, important "issues" but in French . . . which is great if you can read it (I’m able to make out some of the words to get the general feel for what’s being talked about) what have others said ?

First, it was decided to keep all international communities under one single "home" here on modxcms.com. We should have the IgnoreBoards SMF mod installed to avoid cluttering the forums readability for english users.

As for the french community, it’s nowhere near as dense as the english one of course. Most interresting post are "bridged" by people like me who speak both languages. No good stuff gets lost (so far). I have an eye on this... What I meant was that in the french CMS "market" MODx is the hot thing right now, but it’s easier to get such positionning since the french community revolving around CMS is a lot smaller.

But it’s true in time it could be harder to "bridge" important post or issue. I guess that’s the case for many communities...

Unfortunately, ignore boards is currently incompatible with Googlebot and Spiders, which was in from the beginning and installed by hand.

Hmm you forgot to mention Drupal that’s imho better than Mambo/Joomla.
I will stick to modx if i can solve my sef/seo problem

Quote from: CoolGoose at Mar 18, 2006, 07:04 AM

Hmm you forgot to mention Drupal that’s imho better than Mambo/Joomla. I will stick to modx if i can solve my sef/seo problem

I think Drupal was mentionned in this thread, or at least I mentionned it... it’s a very powerful tool, to me among the top 5 opensource CMS : it’s flexible, standard compliant and feature rich but the admin does not cut it for me and I am not especially fond of phpTemplate or XTemplate. But it’s a matter of feeling and taste there...

I rather liked Xoops, but it just wasn’t going to make the multilanguage site I needed over a year ago, while Etomite with MODx did it easily. (site has since been upgraded to MODx, but is still using the original Etomite template) http://www.bmptrans.ch