What did you use before MODx?

Did anybody mention 2-soup cans and some string?
ya can’t beat a good hotlink!

I used Contribute (and still do). It’s rather slow and buggy and unstable, but it plays well with Dreamweaver, which I use for all my sites. In code view, mind you
MODx looks like a much better option, but I’m still very much a newbie and I find it hard to get properly started. I’m good at (x)html/css, but I don’t have much of a programming background.

Quote from: Maaike at Jun 28, 2006, 10:28 AM

I used Contribute (and still do). It’s rather slow and buggy and unstable, but it plays well with Dreamweaver, which I use for all my sites. In code view, mind you
MODx looks like a much better option, but I’m still very much a newbie and I find it hard to get properly started. I’m good at (x)html/css, but I don’t have much of a programming background.

Do you know that there’s a MODx Dreamweaver Extension floating at the forums, done by Jeff Whitfield (Bravado).

In production, I’ve used my own homegrown CMS, as well as (for smaller sites) TextPattern and Wordpress. In testing, I’ve used just about everything: Mambo/Joomla (tables as far as the eye can see), Drupal (weird ontology, but nice once you get over the learning curve), e107, Geeklog (I really like Geeklog as a community portal system), eZ Publish (what a nightmare to install), Sitellite, Xaraya. I’ve played around a little bit with a bunch of others: Earthli, Mad4Milk (which is pretty neat, though it looks like it’s stalled), Nucleus, Syntax, Typo3.

The problem for me with most CMSs I’ve tried is that they’re more concerned with being community portals than with being page servers; and most of the sites I’ve worked on are meant to be page servers and not community portals. MODx has been a really pleasant change for me from the Mambos of the world -- it outputs pages cleanly, allows for the world’s easiest templating, makes section management fairly straightforward, and all of you saints who develop the system just really seem to understand what should make a CMS tick. So I’m looking forward to learning more about MODx, and right now I’m planning on deploying it at some point in the next six months on my organization’s website.

What you’ll like about MODx is his flexiblity : not only templating, but data structure is very flexible with TVs. Expandability is great too
And it sure is a great tool to build corporate website... I had been using Textpattern before but it doesn’t have what it takes to do complex corportate website.

Welcome to the adventure !
I am pretty sure you’ll enjoy MODx, though the way things work might puzzle you a bit sometime

I’m another current Textpatterner (Hey David). I’ve used Spectra, MT, Dupal, Commonspot, Ez-publish and Textpattern. I think at the end of the day I’m still looking for something with the flexibility of Ez-publish but the speed of Textpattern. I’ve been keeping an eye on Modx since the OpenSource CMS interview and it definitely seems to be going in the right direction. The discussions in the TXP forum also gave me a very pleasant feeling for the community.

I’m hoping to finnally have the time to put it through it’s paces and get a better feel for it.

Quote from: hakjoon at Jul 17, 2006, 08:39 PM

I’m another current Textpatterner (Hey David).

Hey Patrick, I am glad to see you there

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I think at the end of the day I’m still looking for something with the flexibility of Ez-publish but the speed of Textpattern.

My thought exactly, when I came here
I have not been disappointed !

You might wanna check this discussion :
Textpattern and MODx : a comparison

Also using Textile with MODx : [Plugin] Textile Beta
There is also one who handles Textile Plus and last but not least, Texy :
[Plugin] Texy (interresting alternative)

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I’ve been keeping an eye on Modx since the OpenSource CMS interview and it definitely seems to be going in the right direction. The discussions in the TXP forum also gave me a very pleasant feeling for the community.I’m hoping to finnally have the time to put it through it’s paces and get a better feel for it.

I think we are moving in the right direction, not only have we made huge progress since I first posted @txp’s forum (MODx was 0.9.0 then), but the next release will bring a LOT more progress... you shall soon see

I am not even mentionning the concept between the 1.0 branch which are just amazing (the 1.0 branch is developped in parallel with the 0.9.x branch, rewritten from the ground up, no etomite legacy anymore)... the future looks bright !

Now is a good time to dive into MODx
I sure would be excited to have you on board here, knowing the great contribs you make @Textpattern’s

I played with textpatern (pretty good system), however I learned some asp and built a very crappy homegrown...

Well i’m a previous ( note the previous ) wordpress user, first I started with my own homegrown ( which was nice and even more simple than MODx -- %CONTENT% ) even though this was nice and I had a hacked together editor, it suffered from the fact that I didn’t have any plugin frame work so that meant that I would have to develop all my functionality ( not good ).

So then I went to Wordpress ( which a friend was using ), ....now I like wordpress, but when I have a project that forces me to hack the normal functinality of the package for my needs, ( www.firstbornyouth.com -- recent project ) in some way or the other. I feel uncomfortable. I also find that the template infastructure is a bit too tedious for me ( or maybe i’m should stop hacking the default theme for my needs and find a more efficient template -- tag wise that is ).

Up until recently I was actually thinking of developing my own front-end for wordpress to simplify the entire process of the templates and save me some time, and my proposed idea was actually close to MODx’s editing system. I even have a basic outline of the system.

But thankfully I have found MODx, It has every thing that I want ( so far ) and the simplity that I yearn for, I have a new project that I will be starting soon, so I’ll update you all on how this new project goes. ( I was actually dreading the wordpress installation/coding/tweaks -- which takes at least 2 days ).

Congrats on a job well done.

Regards,
Kenneth Parris
Blue Bird Interactive

I am using typo3 and will still use it (because of its flexibilty and power) but am looking for a slimmer solution for small and mid-sized websites.