I would love to win this book!

MODx Web Developement book

MODx Web Developement is just the book I have been looking for. I am a volunteer for a local ski patrol and I have offered to build the website. Unfortunately I don't know what I am doing (as you can see by this site). I gave up trying to figure out different CMS systems and coded the site by hand. You can see the site at wpsp.org. See more in the About Section. It takes a long time to write the pages by hand. If I won this book and with the help of the Coding Pad tutorials I am sure I could master MODx and be on my way to coding nervana. Please vote for me.

Here is the book description from the PackT Publishing website:

MODx is a content management system and PHP web application framework rolled into one. With the ease of a CMS and the extensibility of a framework, MODx allows you to develop professional-looking, intricate websites with its easy-to-use interface and flexible architecture. MODx provides reusable code called snippets most of which are so generic that, without any modification, they can serve multiple functionalities. The generic nature of the snippets makes it possible to get the perfect customization that is so hard in other content management systems.

This book will get web developers up-and-running with MODx. With step-by-step examples and illustrative screenshots, you will be guided through installation, configuration, and customization. By the end of the book, you will have created a powerful, dynamic website by using the individual elements of MODx, without the need for programming know-how.

Starting with a walk-through of installing MODx, you will quickly learn how to develop your site without having to use any programming language. Logical, step-by-step instructions will show you how to create your own unique site by adding and editing documents using the inbuilt TinyMCE editor. Change the look and feel of your site by creating your own templates using HTML, CSS, and widgets. By following the example of a blog site, you will learn how to extend your templates to allow rich user interactions through comments, posts, and forms. The book teaches a few core snippets such as Ditto and Wayfinder in detail. These powerful and flexible snippets will enable you to add multiple functionalities to your site. The book will also introduce you to many more snippets which will help you build some of the commonly required web functionalities such as forums and image galleries. Manage your users with authentication and authorization and make your site user-friendly with user groups, forums, and the use of PHx notations to embed logic in templates.

Through following this easy-to-use, step-by-step guide, by the end of the book you will have a fully functional, feature-rich MODx site with professional-looking, dynamic web pages that are totally customizable.

Here is the table of contents of the book "MODx Web Developement"

Table of Contents

MODx CMS is cool!

The team behind MODx strives to contantly add to and refine the documentation to help you get up to speed with MODx: