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

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

I just went through the MODx blogging tutorial for real, with the intent of actually creating the exact same blog functionality myself. I ran into some problems with friendly/pretty URLs and this is a description of how I solved them.... Read More

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Yesterday I discovered that the flash banner wouldn’t load on www.asiandivingvacation.com, I suppose the crossdomain xml didn’t work like I expected it to.... Read More

If you are new to MODx you might want to check out the newbie MODx tutorial before you continue.

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I’ve begun creating a site for a friend of mine who will sell diving, Asian Diving Vacation (please don’t bitch about the way it looks at this point, it’s a work in progress, the only reason I’m linking to it at this point is because there is also a lot of bitching about demos going on, so here you go demo freaks) . I’m using MODx because it simply rocks for the purpose, we don’t need any strange modules that would require something from the giant repositories of Drupal or Joomla.... Read More