MODx CMS
Host Color is a Gold sponsor of MODx CMS (although I’ve seen we haven’t been updated yet). We’ve also set up a MODx Hosting service plan a few months ago to better serve the users of this still relatively new but trully great content management platform. And all this is not a cheap trick that aims to bring us more customers. We really love MODx and want more people to use it for their content rich websites.
The reason to create this page is to both introduce MODx CMS to those who haven’t heard anything about it and to persuade those who know something about it to start using MODx to build websites. Here are the main advantages of MODx CMS:
- W3 Standards Compliant CMS: Using MODx you don’t have to comply with unhandy to manage templating engines and layout rules. You can build XHTML 1.1 websites very easy. MODx development team says that it is a “Dream CMS for CSS designers”.
- Web 2.0 Ajax based CMS: MODx team says MODx CMS is “The first free PHP CMS to offer an API that fully supports Web 2.0 Ajax technology thanks to MooTools”. The CMS developers say we can expect to see this advantage to grow more and more into MODx manager over time.
- It is PHP Application Framework: I’ve heard many speeches from developers “Why not to use PHP?”, but none of them was sustainable. MODx come with a flexible API and an event model that allows you to override how the core behaves. PHP developers have immense flexibility and ability to create custom-build applications and to use a simple upgrade path.
- Browser Friendly CMS: MODx website products look the same in every browser. As MODx team says “Yes that means Safari!”. The websites build on MODx look alike with Internet Explorer versions 5.5 and above, Safari 1.3 and above, and all Firefox versions released since 1.0.
- Easy to use Installer: The CMS has graphic installer, which means that anyone with little experience can to deploy MODx and to with its a “step-by-stop” web installer.
- Refined Rich Text Editors: – The Rich TExt Editor panels in MODx are optional plug-ins. TinyMCE (TinyMCE web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor) ships out of the box. Another good news for MODx users is that they can easy add text editors to CMS with FCKeditor. It is available as an optional download and Textile, Markdown and widgEditors on their way.
- Easy to work with with aliases and menu indexes: This means MODx is build to help you to create Search Engine friendly aliases that are automatically created from the page titles. The CMS checks for alias conflicts before saving a web page. MODx also allows you to change the order of web pages with with drag and drop indexing.
- Great CSS Menu Builder: “Menus made from ULs are ready to go out of the box. Whether you want something simple as a bulleted list for a sidebar or as complex as Big John’s deluxe menus complete with CSS “hover zones”, MODx has you covered”, this is waht MODx developers say about their CSS Menu Builder.
- Convinient Meta Tag and Keyword Management: The CMS development team says that we can consider MODx as #1 free SEO optimized CMS. Well, we can not say this on ourselves, not because it is not true, but because the “Number 1″ spot is a too windy, and there are long line of centenders. But MODx definitely helps anyone to build SEO friendly web pages and allows the site owners to adjust all meta content per per page. As you probably know it is very important to have meta information relevant to the page content. MODx makes this easy.
Those are only part of a long list of advantages MODx has. The recognition of the MODx developers’ work came when the CMS won a 2007 Packt Award for the Most Promising Open Source Content Management System. We can not says “It is the best”, but we are surer it ranks among “Top 3 Free Open Source CMS”. We have tested it and already built a few web sites that are mcuh appreciated from their users.
We know MODx and we can help you to build and maintain high quality website with this CMS. Please visit our MODx Hosting Plan and contact us if you have any questions about this CMS.
