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Re: Guest Post: How To Use MODX For CSS On-The-Fly

YJ Tso — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:26:05 -0000

Sure, if you like Find & Replace that much ;) Personally I'd much rather use the MODX Manager and TVs. Also, MODX is more than a Developer tool, it's a Customer Service tool. My client wanted to play around with the colors, and with no knowledge of HTML nor CSS, I couldn't very well let him loose on the stylesheets! MODX's user-friendly Manager interface allows clients to get involved, feel happy & empowered without jeopardizing the site.

Re: Guest Post: How To Use MODX For CSS On-The-Fly

YJ Tso — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 16:09:39 -0000

Nice! I love this...With MODX there's always more than one way of doing things :)

Re: Google+: Social Media Upstart 'Worse Than a Ghost Town'

YJ Tso — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:16:31 -0000

All you have to do is circle a few people you don't know (cause you can) and you'll get lots of interesting content to share, with whomever you choose (cause you can) and that in turn drives engagement. It's a better platform » don't settle for less just because it's easier ;)

Re: A Showcase of 30 Quirky, Hand-Drawn Logos

YJ Tso — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:07:13 -0000

Hand-drawn designs bring artistry, texture, and manual craftsmanship back to the web. Thanks for this roundup!

P.S. There's a knitting shop that has a neat hand-drawn logo: http://threebagsfull.ca

Re: How-To: Realistic HDR Photography with Photoshop Custom Tone-Map | Sepia River Marketing

YJ Tso — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:31:49 -0000

Sorry David, that isn't clear in the article. I had inserted a black background to illustrate what the masked layers look like on their own. I had to remove it, but someone following along may not have created one at all, so that instruction would be moot.

Re: #MODX and PHP Max Upload Size | Sepia River Marketing

YJ Tso — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:56:59 -0000

Thanks Mark! I moved this post over from Posterous to this MODX-based blog, and I still have some housekeeping to do, like re-formatting all the "code" sections. I did originally have them in separate lines, but thanks for reminding me because we wouldn't want to be dispersing bad code in a tutorial :P

Oh, and one more thing: if you want a server that runs MODX with its default PHP setup, let me know. Patrick at skytoaster.com has setup a VPS for me that runs MODX out-of-the-box. Or if you just want an account for your site, contact me :)

Re: Tutorial: #MODX and FileLister for Automatic Photo Publishing | Sepia River Marketing

YJ Tso — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:37:08 -0000

Glad you found it helpful!

Re: Top 4 Free CSS Generators Online | Sepia River Marketing

YJ Tso — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:39:09 -0000

Yea I've read about the border-image property but haven't had a chance to try it. Maybe I'll make a point of it now - thanks for posting!

Re: #MODX and PHP Max Upload Size | Sepia River Marketing

YJ Tso — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:19:15 -0000

Glad it helped!! :)

Re: MODX Revolution 2.2 and schema.org | Sepia River Marketing

YJ Tso — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:47:51 -0000

Thanks Mark! I think I tried using the *id link syntax (you can't show it in comments here because the MODX site is trying to parse it LOL) for canonical and it didn't work for some reason - it was outputting the relative URL..???

Re: MODX Revolution 2.2 - Dashboard Widgets | Sepia River Marketing

YJ Tso — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:56:09 -0000

Thanks Mark! I didn't know about all those useful, pre-made widgets!!

Re: MODX Revolution 2.2 and schema.org | Sepia River Marketing

YJ Tso — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:58:43 -0000

Like this:

? &scheme=`full`

I didn't know about that property...?? Is that in the docs?

Re: MODX Revolution 2.2 and schema.org | Sepia River Marketing

YJ Tso — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:55:28 -0000

Found the page in the Docs: http://rtfm.modx.com/displa...

Updated the post. Thanks for the info!!! Happy Holidays Mark :)

Re: MODX Revolution 2.2 and schema.org | Sepia River Marketing

YJ Tso — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 22:30:46 -0000

Thanks for this! As another option, Mark and I have been talking about the MODX link tag property "scheme". This could accomplish the same thing and eliminates the need for a conditional output filter:

< link rel="canonical" href="[[~[[*id]]? &scheme=`full`]]" />

Re: Another Reason To Love #MODX! | Sepia River Marketing

YJ Tso — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:35:30 -0000

Awesome! I think the lesson here is still: "Ask, and MODX will listen." In this case, MODX is you Mark! How do you like them apples? ;)

Re: Sepia River Marketing Blog - MODX Club, MODX Showcase

YJ Tso — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:11:25 -0000

Update: not going to package this because the new Articles Blog Engine for MODX is out!! It makes blogging in MODX super easy and fun - no extensive setup required. You can read more about it here: http://sepiariver.ca/blog/m...

Re: MODX Revolution 2.2 and schema.org | Sepia River Marketing

YJ Tso — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:42:09 -0000

This is super helpful, Mark! Thanks!! Off to check it out right now :P

Re: MODX Revolution 2.2 and Articles Blog Engine | Sepia River MODX & Marketing Blog

YJ Tso — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:13:32 -0000

Awesome! Come back and let us know how it goes :)

Re: How-To: Realistic HDR Photography with Photoshop Custom Tone-Map | Sepia River Marketing

YJ Tso — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:40:12 -0000

Glad you like it!! Thanks for the feedback :)

Re: How-to: Use MODX getResources and getPage for galleries...or anything you want! | Sepia River Marketing

YJ Tso — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:26:53 -0000

Thanks Matt! Nice catch. There was another bit of code that wasn't displaying and I've fixed them both :)

Re: #MODX Output Filters - If & PHx Conditional Statements Tutorial | Sepia River Marketing

YJ Tso — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:23:56 -0000

Good point, Anselm. If you use a lot of them they can definitely impact performance. Do you think the "If" snippet is "faster"?

Re: #MODX Output Filters - If & PHx Conditional Statements Tutorial | Sepia River Marketing

YJ Tso — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:27:28 -0000

Makes sense :) I wonder if there's a way to cache the results of output modifiers? They are so very easy to use I'd find it hard to give them up for most basic situations.

Re: #MODX Output Filters - If & PHx Conditional Statements Tutorial | Sepia River Marketing

YJ Tso — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:18:56 -0000

You're welcome :) I'm glad it helped. With output filters (and when necessary the "If" snippet) I generally just use one page template, one CSS template, one "item" template for listed items such as images in sliders, and if the site has a blog then 2 blog templates. Sometimes the homepage is different enough to warrant it's own template, and eCommerce sites will have a product page and checkout template.

That's 8 templates for a fully-featured eCommerce site with blog!

It's a far cry less than some sites I've seen where pretty much every section of the site has its own template. It's not necessarily a bad way to use a cms like MODX, which makes templating easy, but I find maintaining such a site a bit more of a pain.

Re: #MODX Output Filters - If & PHx Conditional Statements Tutorial | Sepia River Marketing

YJ Tso — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:21:41 -0000

Thanks Mark!!

Re: Tutorial: #MODX and FileLister for Automatic Photo Publishing | Sepia River Marketing

YJ Tso — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:35:23 -0000

As far as I know, you should be able to use it with getPage. You'd call it just like you do when you use getPage with getResources, except you'd use FileLister as the snippet name. In fact I think I've done it before, I just can't remember where. If I can dig up the example I'll post it here, or if you make it work please update us ;)