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MODx Revolution for Complete Beginners Part 9 – Using FormIt to Create a Contact Form

March 8th, 2011 · 78 Comments · MODx, Tutorials

Welcome to part 9 of the MODx Revolution for Complete Beginners series.  In this installment we’re going to look at how to create a simple contact form on our website using the FormIt snippet.  As we work through this series of tutorials we’re building a resource site for learning MODx Revolution.  We’re using the 7 [...]

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MODx Revolution for Complete Beginners Part 8 – Using Wayfinder to Create Menus

February 21st, 2011 · 47 Comments · MODx, Tutorials

Welcome to part 8 of the MODx Revolution for Complete Beginners series.  As we work through these tuts we’re building a resource site for learning MODx Revolution.  We’re using the 7 in 1 Business Success Site Template from Themeforest, although you can follow along with any template that you choose.  In the last installment we introduced [...]

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MODx Revolution for Complete Beginners Part 7 – Working with Snippets

February 8th, 2011 · 10 Comments · MODx, Tutorials

Welcome to part 7 of the MODx Revolution for Complete Beginners series.  In the last installment we learned about template variables and how we can use them to create custom editable fields on our site pages.  As we work through these tuts we’re building a resource site for learning MODx Revolution.  We’re using the 7 [...]

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MODx Revolution for Complete Beginners Part 6 – Working with Template Variables

February 7th, 2011 · 53 Comments · MODx, Tutorials

Welcome to Part 6 of the MODx Revolution for Complete Beginners series.  In the last installment, we explored the concept of chunks. We created a number of chunks and learned how to use them to organize our template. We also mentioned a few other uses of chunks and learned their tag syntax and how to [...]

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MODx Revolution for Complete Beginners Part 5 – Working with Chunks

January 30th, 2011 · 10 Comments · MODx, Tutorials

Welcome to Part 5 of the MODx Revolution for Complete Beginners series.  In the last installment, we started looking at how to work with templates in MODx Revolution.  We begun with a static HTML/CSS template and ported it into our MODx Revolution install, changed the paths to the assets, and started learning the MODx Revolution [...]

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