Comments on: MODx – the best open-source CMS available?

By: Godaddy coupon codes

Godaddy coupon codes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:56:18 +0000

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I am using modx to make my new site so we will see how it goes

By: Effiong Okwong

Effiong Okwong — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:29:32 +0000

Hi Matthew,
Just like you, MODx has become my preferred CMS, and I really enjoy working with it.
However, my MODx skills are not quite perfect, and I need some help on some issues.
For instance, I have been trying to use the eForm snippet to process forms on the site and I just can’t seem to get it right.
How do I use eForm to process my contact forms?
Please any input would be really appreciated.

By: Jay Gilmore (smashingred)

Jay Gilmore (smashingred) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:51:03 +0000

Hi Matthew,

Thanks for the great MODx post.

Your points highlight the some of the very same reasons I have adopted it (and am now part of the Marketing Team).

I feel very strongly as someone who works with small business that I have to be sure that I can turn the site over to someone who doesn’t have any technical skill and have them easily learn how to use it within an hour or 2.

I offer free support to any client whom is managing their own site and rarely have a call for help.

That is good business.

I’m happy you are happy and if there is anything you’d like to see don’t be afraid to share it in the forums.

Sincerely and all the best,

Jay

By: Phill

Phill — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:35:56 +0000

I’m inclined to agree with you, Matthew. I use MODx for the Fordham website (on your recommendation, I believe) and it’s been great. It’s accommodated everything we wanted to do with the site effortlessly – just write a bit more PHP in a snippet, and you’re away!

I probably haven’t tried as many CMSs as you, but the ones I did try seemed pretty complicated. I tried Drupal – I’ve heard good things about it – but it has an incredibly steep learning curve, even for someone like me (and I’ve been doing websites for years).

I think MODx’s strength is in creating reasonably static websites with lots of pages. I think Drupal and Mambo and the like would probably be better at creating more “blog” / “news” style sites where each section had regularly updated bits. But if you just want to get a site up there with pages that don’t change every week, MODx is great.