Is ModX good for what I intend to do ?

I wish to create a website with a structure that is a bit complicated.
My website would be structured as presented bellow:

A central part (an index to call it so) , that will be much like a blog , containing a link and summary of any recent added article about any type of* widget* I would write about.
The website would have between 5 and 10 sub-domains ,each sub-domain representing a widget manufacturer .
I want these pages to also be structured like a blog with "article pages" .
Finally , I want these articles to contain information about a certain product/item/widget etc. and be like a website of it’s own.

So , looking from the top page (domain.com) each sub-domain would actually be a filter to what news are being displayed , and each article for a sub-domain would do the same (be a news filter) , just at another level.

I’ll try to make a basic schema (I’m not very good at this) :



So, as I create a "low level" article , it should propagate itself through all of it’s parents (by adding a summary and link to their page) .

Doable or not ? (I want a hierarchical structure , not a tag-based one ).

PS: sorry for the bad english and pour explanations .Also any suggestions that would make my life easier would be welcomed . Oh... and by having the same summaries multiple times on different pages , would the search engines trigger a "duplicate content" alarm ? For if that is possible , I would need another schema for my website .

Thank you!

I’m not exactly following... and I suspect many others are not either. You introduced "low level article" towards the end further confusing me... does that go on the left side or right side of your diagram.

Are you going to require multiple real domains (e.g., WidgetVille.com, WidgetsRUs.com and WIdgetrama.com)? If so, then this is not currently doable and will not be doable in the next release (095).

Well , the "low level" articles that I mentioned , would be ones furthest to the left in my diagram.
About the domain, I will use one real domain and create several sub-domains on it.

The structure of my website would be somewhat alike of a news site . ( On the front page it should display all the stories, on a certain sub-domain it would display only stories from a category , on a sub-domain’s category it would display only stories belonging to that category,etc ).

I just found one site that is structured as I would want mine to be .Check http://about.com to see what I’m talking about.

Shouldn’t be a problem; use the document tree structure to lay out your "subdomain" structure, and use Ditto calls on the folder pages as appropriate.

Thanks! I will try Ditto with modx 0.9.5 beta 3 these days and see how it goes .