MODX vs joomla cms

Quote from: kickass at Mar 18, 2006, 09:51 AM

Now, ModX-- On the downside- (...) On the UP side- (...) Hope that helps.

Waow, this one will end up in the testimonies collector !
Great input indeed, man you make my day that’s great MODx advertisement

About singing on top of roofs, I definitely can use the help, that’s great !!!

Thx again for the great feedback

Quote from: Starbuck at Mar 18, 2006, 01:19 PM

It’s that ease-of-use which has been designers and standards compliant coders biggest problem. modX solved that problem, what more could you want ?

@Starbuck: I was referring to a robust set of add-on components that were easy to use and configure by the technically-challenged end-user. These will start appearing more as we make the developer API more robust and make customizing the manager easier. As a developer, I look for semantically correct API classes and methods when I want to create new components, in the same way that an XHTML/CSS designer might expect to have semantically correct elements and style selectors to work with. A lot of the quality PHP developers out there will look for the same, and that is what I want to attract. So that’s what more I want for MODx.


Quote from: Starbuck at Mar 18, 2006, 01:19 PM

The problem with promoting modX kickass - is that it sounds too good to be true, how fu#ked up is that!

All you need is csszengarden powered by modX - that’s the key!

Ha, now that would be the bomb! A one page MODx site with infinite themes to select from. Maybe they’d let us mirror the themes out our own site, and we could blow their minds by adding dynamic CSS options, some customizable content areas to allow themes to define additional markup in the same way the extra div’s provide placeholders for additional images used in the design.

Where’s our marketing guys!? [EDIT: darnit, type their name and they appear! Davidm beat me to the post!]

Well, I’ve been PLANNING on porting all my free WordPress Themes over to ModX, I just need a few days off to do it . . . and unlucky (or lucky, can’t figure out which) for me I’m so damned busy with paying work I haven’t gotten to it. I also wanted to do a great proprietary only for ModX template.

If someone were to put up the site and create the themeswitcher it might be the incentive I need to get cracking on this. Who needs sleep?

Quote from: kickass at Mar 18, 2006, 01:48 PM

If someone were to put up the site and create the themeswitcher it might be the incentive I need to get cracking on this. Who needs sleep?

New templates and port would be great !

About creating a theme switcher... it already exists, Susan coded it : http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,1079.0.html
;D

Quote from: OpenGeek at Mar 18, 2006, 01:39 PM

Where’s our marketing guys!? [EDIT: darnit, type their name and they appear! Davidm beat me to the post!]

Well, never far of the forums... though usually the week-end evenings are not in front of my computer (it’s 9 pm there... will be leaving and getting back to real life now )

LOL! And I betcha someone else comes up with the webspace and modx installation. Well, hell, I might just create a new geekgirl fashion look-- racoon eyes from lack of sleep!

Sorry, I started that look already, more than 15 years ago. It’s getting harder to maintain it, though.

I was originally running the template switcher on my site and had a couple dozen templates working, but it just got to be too much of a pain in the neck dealing with the IE bugs for all of them. Once it wasn’t any fun any more I gave up on it.

I still have it working for some of the demos on my partner’s site, http://www.alandaniel.co.uk. He loves that scrolling banner (he saw it on the Apple site); I despise it.

what Modx needs is a newbie play room with balloons, css toys, web clowns, crayons, etc charts on the walls modx for dummies, snippets the birds and the bees, and other plain language tutorials. Modx could be a great teaching/learning environment as well. The only reason people use cms like joomla, etc is because it inspires lazy sit and eat twinkies and just click.

YES! This is exactly what it needs!

For the record, I’m installing soon and intend to make notes every step of the way so I can maybe help make the docs more friendly for the clueless. And since I’m installing the SMF and its integration Mod as well, hopefully it’ll be helpful. I’m sure you guys will hear me cursing and screaming (in three languages) while I’m getting everything to work. It’s called "business as usual."

Quote from: bugsmi0 at Mar 22, 2006, 02:21 PM

what Modx needs is a newbie play room with balloons, css toys, web clowns, crayons, etc charts on the walls modx for dummies, snippets the birds and the bees, and other plain language tutorials. Modx could be a great teaching/learning environment as well. The only reason people use cms like joomla, etc is because it inspires lazy sit and eat twinkies and just click.

*lol*

We’ve created modxhost.com - entirely from scratch using modX, and documented every step of the sites creation to where it is right now. The end result will be a well documented and pictorialized tutorial for newbies to follow, including the installation of custom css templates - the modX speciality!

I hadn’t thought of joomla like that before, to be perfectly honest some of the sites I’ve seen powered by joomla look like they were made by twinkies

We’ve created modxhost.com - entirely from scratch using modX, and documented every step of the sites creation to where it is right now

Very cool Starbuck! You are going to continue this, I presume? Wish I had this the first time I struggled along with installation and setup.