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The Must Have MODx Revolution Extras

The MODx revolution is a power pack version of all sorts of latest features that the MODx development community has been waiting for. This blog will feature some of the must have extras you must add in the MODx revolution. There are quite a lot of add-ons, snippets, templates which you could add in your MODx revolution, but only a handful comes in which can prove very useful to get started. TinyMCE: The TinyMCE version 3.3.8 works with MODx revolution 2.0.0-RC2 or the later. MetaX: This snippet helps to keep sites optimized for the major search engines and saves a lot of time while creating templates by automatically doing all the meta work. Breadcrumbs: This is a snippet which creates a breadcrumb page trail navigation which allows various configuration options like insertion of custom characters between crumbs, limits the number of crumbs shown, hiding breadcrumbs on the home page and many more. getResources: This is a summarization snippet and general-purpose listing for MODx Revolu...

Why Websites should be Developed in Open Source

Let’s say you hire a web development company and they develop a site but disappear midway leaving you with a half baked web solution. You are left with a coded site but will some other web development company be ready to take over. If they do, they will quote you higher as they need to spend time to learn the new code and sometimes, these codes are crypted, so you need to pay them more to start the project all over again. Whew! Quite a lot of problems that you may have to face if this happens to you. If you want to escape the rough road described above, it is better to the develop the whole web development on an open source. An open source software has a source code that is not crypted and any developer can see how it is coded and use it easily, improve it and develop on it. An open source website can be improved many times through the hands of different developers. Many talented developers today are committed to making it better and better by time and it is always free to use, to upgr...