Hello,
I've been using Modx for over two years now. I think
Modx is amazing.
I looked long and hard for a CMS that fitted my needs. I tried everything: drupal, wordpress, joomla, silverstripe, concrete5, ... Most of these systems are lacking severely on the templating department and that's where Modx -for me (as a designer and frontend dev)- is the hero.
Creative freedom as is so beautifully put on the modx website. I have to admit that I tried modx before and threw it in the bin because it was hard to wrap my head around it as a newbie in the great world of content management systems. But after trying all those other systems and cursing throughout every experience with them I decided to bite the bullet and climb my way over the steep learning curve that Modx had (at least this is my opinion).
If it wasn't for my perseverance and my will to learn Modx because of its great templating system, I would have picked another CMS i'm afraid. The documentation was scarce and confusing at the time. There was Evolution and Revolution and sometimes I used the old chunk notation instead of the new one and it was a mess. Then I found a website that really made the difference for me and that was
http://designfromwithin.com/ owned by Menno Pietersen, known by most of you as a real ambassador for modx. He had all these videos where he explained how to use modx. It showed me stuff I didn't realize modx could do and really convinced me how powerful modx is without having to search the internet and read 10 pages about something called a snippet.
What I'm trying to say is that video tutorials are the way to go for me to get people interested in Modx. And not only to get them interested but to learn modx within a reasonable timeframe. Why not create a centralized Modx Video Tutorial website? Where modx experts post videos and courses ( just like envato and nettuts premium). You would have a basic course to get to know Modx and then there would be a paid membership (for example $15/month) to see the videos of the experts. I would love to pay $15/month to see Mark Hamstra on how to create an extra. If 500 users subscribe then you would have a monthly revenue of $7500 that can be used to pay the experts for their time invested in the tutorials. But more importantly, people like me who are searching for a CMS would have a place to go to learn about Modx, see experts in action and get them beyond certain obstacles when developing a website with Modx.
I really think that this is where Modx is lacking. You have to want to learn modx to fall in love with it. But some people don't have time or are too lazy to do the research required to get to know our beloved CMS. Give them a platform where they can visually see how to use it and explain the manager and what not and we'll have them on our side in no time.
Just my two cent.
Greetings
Yannick Lombart
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