On Sep 12, 2007, at 7:57 AM, Vlad Alexander (XStandard) wrote:
This article may be useful:
http://juicystudio.com/article/choosing-an-accessible-cms.php
Hmm, I wonder why they didn't include Modx. The survey was done in
May, maybe Modx (v 0.9.5) wasn't quite ready yet! The v.9.6 has
improved a lot and we are promised something even sweeter in the next
release.
That said, if you pay attention and practice web standards, it will
be a fooled to not pay attention to certain things from certain
people in the web standards groups. The same goes with Modx CMS, if
you are looking for a scalable, accessible and web standards
compliant CMS that offers many flexible and powerful features through
plugins and snippets, it will be a fool that you don't even spend a
few minutes to take a look simply because you already have a favorite
ones.
Dive into Modx and make a template (or convert one of your static CSS/
XHTML layout) isn't difficult at all. Modx is very user-friendly for
web designer however the learning curve is a bit higher (but not more
than WP, Joomla, Textpattern, EE, Plone of the sort in my opinion (I
have tested them all)) if one PHP knowledge's is a bit weak (someone
like me). Currently Modx lacks a good documentation and the admin
interface have room to improved (again! we are promised that they
will be changed in the next release); Many tips and tutorials are
hidden in the Forum that need a bit of digging and dedication.
Modx doesn't control/limit what you want as far as code and
functionality concerned; it gives you what you want to have, the way
you wanted it.
Personally I don't think there is a fully accessible WYSIWYG Editor
existed that delivers pure clean code. TINY MCE is the default plugin
for Modx which I find difficult to use and a memory eater; I prefer
something like textile from Textpattern; someone was making Markdown
integration I think. It has a QuickEdit front-end content editor
which I like very much.
Ditto, Jot and Reflect snippets make Modx a wonderful Blog CMS (if
you only want a blog). Ditto aggregates articles (aka documents)
(this snippet can do a lot more tasks); Jot takes care of comments
and Reflect handles the archives. There is a plugin called PHx
(Placeholders Xtended), enable, can add the capability of output
modifiers using placeholders, template variables (A very powerful
feature of Modx - you no longer limited to Content area) and settings
tags. Jot + PHx, you get: moderate, edit, delete comments at front-
end. As for the ping and trackback features that bloggers concern
about, there is a Trackback snippet, and a Japanese developer wrote a
SendPing module :
[quote]:
What does this plugin do?
This plugin is supposed to send pings to various (editable) websites
using the XML-RCP library and ping protocol. The goal of this is to
update these services that there has been added new content to your
website, which will make sure these services crawl your website. This
feature is mainly interesting for those who use MODx to blog, but the
usage of pings is growing all the time as it's an comfortable way to
instantly get updated data for search engines.
In addition to this it'll also notify Google that your site has new
content and your sitemap.xml should be spidered again (exact filename
also configurable).
Also, according to ZeRo's email this currently supports multi
domains, which could be useful for the heavy users.
What doesn't it do?
It wont make you coffee nor breakfast, sadly, in addition to that it
doesn't automatically notify these services as of now; you'll have to
run the module manually, ZeRo has planned a plugin to handle this
with his next version.
Trackback allows blogger to send/receive pings to other blogs whereas
SendPing will notify blog search engines/social networking sites
[/quote]
Many interesting and powerful snippets/plugins/modules that can
enhance features, functions and make your live sweeter, can be found
in 'forum > In Development'.
Lastly, I almost hate to mention my site as it hasn't completed yet -
it's powered by Modx using just a few snippets/plugin with a nothing-
to-show-blog. This is not a good example to demonstrate how flexible
and scalable and accessible Modx can give you, but I hope it's a good
example of 'artisan's work' (borrowed Partrick's word) made by Modx.
In the blog individual article page, I even managed to score WCAG AAA.
http://tinyurl.com/3deh87
tee
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