Hi
I'm using Modx (currently 2.1.3) since one year for our corporate website and I'm very happy with it.
I designed a few websites before but that was way back in 2004 and I'm coming more from a webdesign background so I'm not very familiar with PHP, Javascript, SQL and all that stuff. But thanks to this great community and with the help of a friend, I'm able to create what I need.
Because this website was my first project with Modx, my element tree is a little bit chaotic. I had a very short time range to create the website so I did not pay attention about a proper naming convention. Because now I have some time and also more experience with ModX, I thought it would be a good Idea, to clean things up. But how?
1.) How do you organize your snippets and chunks. Do you have a naming convention, do you use kind of a prefix rule? Do you organize them within folders?
I'm very interested in your workflows. Especially for a beginner, I think it's hard to organize stuff in a proper manner from the begining.
2.) Show where and how many times a Snippet, Chunk, TV or Template is used
Dozens of times, I thought it would be very helpful, if I could see in an element, how many times and where it is used. Why? I give you an example: I have a few chunks that I created in a early stage of my website built process. Now they are just laying around but I'am not quite sure, if I still use them anywhere. I hope you see what I mean.
I completely understand, that when you organize your work well - and that should be the basic principle of every project - this feature would not be necessary. But to be honest, how many times, things get unorganized as time goes on, especially if you are more a (chaotic) creative person
I'm looking forward to your thought, ideas and workflow tips.
Thanks!
