Okay, before I get flamed, I did look (cause its there and in your face to see) and found the documents and such for MODx. However, I wanted to ask if there are any downloadable versions of the documentation available. I hate having to read stuff on a web browser and rather have a printed document to follow and Id prefer, if possible, to avoid Print > next page > print > next page, you get the idea.
At any rate. Im currently using Joomla, have played around with Etomite and tried Drupal. Ive stuck with Joomla for about two years now. I started using it within weeks of it splitting from Mambo and changing to Joomla in fact. I like Joomla, but heaven forbid if you want to be something more than a portal of some kind. It seems all the extensions and such are geared toward things I would never use or never heard of. There are some good ones to be sure, but it seems their focus on the type of website is different than what I want. I use eCommerce, email lists, photo gallery and a little bit of blogging and forums. The integrated eCommerce solution for Joomla (Virtuemart) just falls way short. The rest are patch works at best.
I want to give MODx a try. Ive tried and built a test site with Etomite before, but never deployed it. From what Ive read just the short amount Ive browsed the site, its looking pretty impressive. With Joomla, if you add extensions and plugins you run the risk, heck pretty much guarantee, ruining any W3C validation. The core validates just fine, but toss in a customized template that you work hard to get to validate and your still good. Throw in an extension and you just toss that all out the window unless you like to get into searching through the code to find out what the cause is which I have taken the time to do on many of the extensions I use.
So, if there is any documentation I can just download, like a pdf or something, and read it and get an idea of how things work I would greatly appreciated. Joomla is wearing on me with its lack of self-identity I guess. My websites lean more to being static but I want to make them more dynamic and still retain the ease of editing and so forth. With Joomla, you get through the learning curve, deploy your site and you kinda leave it alone so as not to break anything or ruin the validation.
Oooo, Ooooo, thats awesome. Thank you very much.
MODX Staff
