MODX vs joomla cms

Good stuff - didn’t realise you could upload the zipped install files - doh! Have got my install working however and got around the 500 error by using the tip at http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,3091.0.html - commenting out the 2 offending lines of code.

Could do with a better explanation of building a blog from scratch Starbuck - the one here needs more...

Quote from: kickass at Mar 22, 2006, 04:31 PM

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.

Thanks! Yes, will be taking the site construction screen shot by screen shot covering every stage right up to fully functional custom templating. Topics covered will be a little bit of everything - especially all the bits that seem difficult, but really aren’t

Hi! Joomla is a grate CMS I use it for years but in my opinion it’s a little complicated you have to know php and a few joomla technicalities. MODx is incredible, it’s very lite and you have more control over the code and over the DESIGN.

With MODx you create your design, create your chunks and that’s all, it’s very easy to create as many templates as you want. It doesn’t happen with joomla. To create a template with joomla it’s not easy it takes a learning curve, even to add a new css stylesheet into the <head> you need to know php.

In my opinion MODx is very gentle and powerful, in fact I’m working in two projects right now, one I’m joomla and the other in MODx (my first MODx website) and I don’t want to use joomla anymore.