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This piece will build on the prior piece, this time we’ll take a look at how we can implement quick and dirty AJAX, using the very same class we went through in the prior tutorial.... Read More

For everything to work properly you have to:... Read More

Update: Paceville.com is now online.... Read More

The other day I wanted to try out jQuery Galleria, it didn’t work out of the box with jQuery 1.3.2. Galleria is using the old style @ syntax which doesn’t work anymore. You basically have to go through the whole plugin and replace lines like this:... Read More

After using the stuff in the prior tutorial on the site I’m working on at the moment I quickly realized that I needed to be able to use chunks as templates, just like Ditto, to handle repetitive stuff. It doesn’t make sense having duplicate HTML all over the place.... Read More

Although it’s fairly easy to create a multi-lingual site with chunks and template variables alone it’s hardly ideal, to say the least. For most pages there will be a lot of unused template variables, the manager area will start to look like a mess. ... Read More

Back in September I made some changes to the blog, all recommended by various “experts” (witch doctors), did it result in more Google-traffic? Hardly, this is a graph of what I’ve gotten from Google the past few months:... Read More

I’m currently setting up a Swedish site for a friend, this time I changed site language in the backend to Swedish and utf8. The database collation is set to utf8 too, and the charset line in the config file looks like this: $database_connection_charset = ‘utf8’;... Read More

This tutorial will demonstrate how a multilingual blog in MODx can be created. It is a combination of the prior tutorial and the multi lingual site tutorial at the MODx wiki. Both are required reading if you want to understand what is happening here.... Read More