Just wanted to fall down on my knees here and thank the powers that be for finding MODx. I’m actually making progress here!
I’ve tried just about every big CMS there is: Mambo, Joomla, Typo3, Drupal, WordPress, and a lot more. All of them have failed me because they require me to learn the ins and outs of the system, and that gets in the way of doing what I want to do with the CMS. Some have looked very pretty when I’ve finished with them. Some have looked like beings you have to lock into a dark dungeoun for the protection of the public. Drupal comes to mind. And Typo3. These mutants will be put out of their miseries shortly when I overwrite them with MODx.
Now, I don’t mind a bit of coding in php or HTML. That comes as a given when you want to do this, but I do not want to commit to a long course of study just in order to understand the system. That gets in the way of what it is that I want to do, and it is not to spend a year coding mere taxonomic systems, and looking in the often non-existent documentation to find out why my attempts become monstrous. I want a balance, and I sort of want a bit of
fairness from the system. I don’t know how to put it otherwize.
Anyway, all my attempts have always reached a point where I’ve dispaired about whether I’ll ever going to be able to do the task I want - that is write articles and publish them, and have it appear the way I want to do.
Now, however, though I don’t have anything to show because the work is being done on my local machine, I’m actually making a lot of progress. In mere days I will have done what I set out to do, and I can start to concentrate on my job - which is to write articles and publish them, and have it all look the way it is supposed to do.
And for that, thanks MODx dev team! You’ve got one supporter here. I’m poor, so I can’t give you cash, but I’m going to give you free adspace on my site. And I’m not talking about an obscure link deep in the site structure. My site
will be fairly big here in Sweden when I’m done.
MODX Staff
