ModX CMS - a designer's CMS


ModX is an fully flexible content management system specifically targeted at growing businesses. ModX has advanced features including multi-user security not available in Mambo CMS.

FireStarter are active participants in the modX development project: Richard Quinn is a member of the documentation team; and FireStarter has contributed modules to the project including the Advert Server module.

Features of ModX CMS

Edit pages directly from website

With ModX you can easily create new pages:

  • Create as many pages as you need
  • A different look for different sections - using page templates
  • Page automatically appear in the menus
  • Use the the page settings to set the title, page heading, and URL of each page without any coding
  • Get found with search engine friendly URLs

Word-like editor

ModX CMS has a powerful Word-like editor

  • Includes standard formatting tools such as bold, italics, indenting
  • Use dropdown heading styles to apply standard headings
  • Powerful table editor functions
  • Add and upload images directly in the editor
  • Add weblinks, and webpage popups

Content areas

Create unlimited content areas on a page

  • Easily create "Feature boxes" to draw customers to promotion content
  • Easily create side-images
  • Easily create "Testimonial" boxes
  • Create a easy-to-edit home page without using in-editor tables
  • Create multiple secure area (eg client area, partner area)

Search engine effective

Easily target your site for search engines, without writing any code

  • Set page titles, page headings, menu titles, URLS all in the ModX CMS interface
  • Set ALT tags when you add images
  • Use heading styles to add importance to text
  • Clean table-free code assists
  • Add on modules for creating Google maps available
ModX is a content management system built from the ground up for search engine optimisation and web marketing.

Secure areas

Powerful password area features.

  • Create as many secure groups as you want (eg sales team, clients, management)
  • Add security to a webpage with a single tickbox
  • Only specific groups with access rights to a webpage can access
  • Users can only see the webpages which they have access to. Reduce clutter in your Extranet; for example Sydney users only see Sydney specific policies

Multi-role staged publishing

ModX CMS lets you create multiple roles for users.

  • Create users groups with different rights (eg content editors, sales team editors)
  • Allow teams to have edit rights only in their section of the site (eg. sales manager can updated products areas, tech support can manage FAQs)
  • Lockdown important functions such as changing templates to administrators only
  • Only specific groups with access rights to a webpage can access
  • Allow users to create but not publish pages.  Appoint editors for different pages, to approve publishing
  • Set webpages to be published (and unbublished) on specifc days

Core modules

ModX CMS has several core modules that provide key functionality out-of-the-box.

  • Listing module - create news items or articles that are instantly summarised, and listed in reverese date order, with Read more link to full items.
  • Search - full text search of all pages in your website.

Administration

Easy to administor.

  • Easily create and add new users
  • Add-on module for self-registration of members
  • Backup your website database with one-click

Designer's paradise

Last but not least, the primary reason we use ModX CMS is that its a designer's paradise.

  • Easy to implement varied designs
  • System outputs very clean html/css - no tables... Easy for designers! Fantastic for search engines. 
  • Complies with govt. access requirements.
  • Dropdown menus are CSS driven; all links are searchable by Google.
  • Multiple menus for different ways to find information
  • Built in seach functions

If you would like a feature list or a demonstration of ModX CMS please email us