The Coding Pad

In the final part of this series, we’ll solve the little problem we ran into in the last screencast, and then proceed to finish off this part of our templating project. I hope that you’ve enjoyed this series and that you’ve learned something about working with MODx templates that will be useful to your [...]

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In part 4, the focus of our work is on snippets, and we get our website navigation working using the Wayfinder snippet. We also start working with the Ditto snippet to pull in client testimonials. This is the longest screencast of the series at around 30 minutes. I was hoping to finish in [...]

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In part 3 of this series, we’re continue porting our template into MODx, and the focus here is working with chunks to organize and structure our template and make it more manageable.

Useful Links
MODx Beginner Tutorials -  Working with Chunks

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In part 2 of this series, we start pulling the XHTML/CSS template into the MODx website and using MODx placeholders to dynamically pull in information and settings into our site. I just want to quickly mention that the reason I had to address the issue with jQuery and QuickEdit is because I upgraded this site [...]

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In this first part of a series of five screencasts, we are going to go through the process of porting an XHTML/CSS template into a MODx website.  I recorded these screencasts while working on an actual live project so there’s a bit of fumbling and issues that come up that I try to think and [...]

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