Unlock your creativity with MODX! This course guides you to build and manage your website without the constraints of traditional CMS like WordPress and Joomla.
This course teaches you to use MODX for building and managing a website with total creative freedom. You’ll learn everything from installation to making your site search engine friendly. All of this in just two and a half hours—how cool is that?
Achieve total creative freedom using MODX, and do away with the restraints of Wordpress, Drupal and Joomla.
Content Management Systems (CMS's) help you create and manage your website on-line. This course will guide you through using MODX to build and maintain your website with total creative freedom.
Why does MODX win out over other CMS's? Too often they get in the way. You want to add something but you have to add it as a "widget" or a "block". You want to change the layout of your site but you don't have access to the code. MODX changes all that, you have total control over the code.
You may be familiar with Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress, while these are good at what they do, they all have their limitations. MODX is different, you are unrestrained, you can design your website exactly how you want, to look like you want it to look and do what you want it to do.
This course introduces you to the basic concepts of the MODX content management system so you can get up and running with a website that is totally under your control in no time at all. You will learn:
how to download MODX
how to host MODX
how to create the required database
how to install MODX
what are the key concepts for using MODX
finding and using a free website theme
adapting a theme to your requirements
collecting data from your users
how to implement search engine optimisation best practices
how to set up Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools to help optimise your site
how to make your website social media friendly
The objectives are to:
Use MODX with power, ease, and flexibility
Build an attractive, functional, and responsive website step-by-step with MODX.
MODX is an open source CMS software project which means it has been developed by a community of programmers around the world and is given away for free.
The course is made up of step-by-step video lessons in which a responsive website is built using the MODX system and a free template.
A basic understanding of HTML and CSS is all that is required to discover the power of MODX.
You can learn all you need to know to start using MODX in just two and a half hours.
You should take this course if:
You have just completed one of the many HTML and CSS courses and want to check out the different CMS options open to you.
You use another content management system such as Joomla, Drupal or Wordpress and you want to compare it to MODX.
The instructor will be available to answer any questions you have during the course.
An understanding of the versatility, power and ease of use of MODX
The knowledge of how to build an attractive, functional, and responsive website step-by-step with MODX
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Mike has been building web applications, websites, and on-line training courses for over 15 years. For the last 5 years he has been a freelance web developer creating successful websites and web applications for his clients. Before that he created web applications and on-line learning resources for a diverse group of employers including private companies, web agencies, Universities and the...
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A superficial training course on MODx. For beginners, it's just what you need. Some things in the course are outdated and the information could be updated.
Good match for what I needed. Simple but powerful content, with suggestions for tools and plugins I can use.
teiweise allgemeine Informationen, die mit ModX weniger zu tun haben
I would like to see more on the server side setup to ensure the server has all the proper packages to support modx for those who do not use cpanel/whm or alternative but rather work with terminals directly.
Excellent course!
Probably really good if you're a brand new developer (as in, no html/css/other cms experience at all) as everything is explained thoroughly, but it's a little slow paced otherwise. Rather too much than too little explanation though I guess!
refers to lesson 8: templates
poor meandering course quality, actually unacceptable
also lecture 9: assets
why is he spending 1/2 hour talking about how to upload a file: I need to know directory structure of Modx
Dates are 2014
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Jonathan L.
The content is well explained and interestingly designed for beginners; however, overall, there is too little content for the price, and the descriptions are outdated with insufficient depth and detail.