After a few days of late night collaboration with co-founder Ryan Thrash and the rest of the
MODx team, we unveiled the new
MODx CMS Support web site, featuring documentation, features, a roadmap of the future, community forums, and even a bug tracker. It has been well received so far and as we continue to implement additional content and features, it promises to be not only a great support site for a wonderful content management system, but an excellent case study of the power and simplicity of MODx itself.
For the look and feel we utilized a WordPress theme called Green Merinee by Ian Main (an entry from Alex King’s WP theme contest), converting it to a MODx template in a matter of minutes. We set-up the site structure, some snippets for navigation, and a few more templates to aid in the entry of MODx user and developer API documentation, then set the documentation team loose. A contact snippet, a search snippet, some searching, selection, and a quick wrapper around a bug tracker (we chose FlySpray for it’s simplicity and well authored markup), some nice images from iStockPhoto.com, and a few CSS additions and tweaks later, we have a ourselves a respectable support site.
Come by and visit.