As you know, we get up to all sorts of design stuff at Studio Republic – graphics, branding, marketing collateral and websites. Our websites need to be clever like a fox, strong like a bull and responsive like a spitting cobra.

1. ​Studio Republic and MODX – a match made
in web heaven

2. As you know, we get up to all sorts of design stuff at Studio
Republic – graphics, branding, marketing collateral and
websites. Our websites need to be clever like a fox, strong
like a bull and responsive like a spitting cobra.

3. For such an important job we need a mighty Content
Management System to provide the means of creating,
publishing, organising and storing content, because (did we
mention several times already?) content is king.

4. We’ve looked around at many CMS options, kicked the
tyres on a few different systems, and dabbled in various
online forums at 2am looking for learned opinions. And for
us, MODX is the winning solution, hands down. With new
features released at the start of 2014, we think it’s worth
shining a spotlight on it for a few minutes.

5. It works on virtually any web server and it walks a brilliantly
comfortable line between being intuitive and powerful – it’s
user-friendly even for beginners but capable of impressive
functionality and design.

6. Its open source framework provides a well stocked toolbox
for geeks and complete creative freedom for designers.
While many systems impose restrictions on layout MODX
does none of this; you literally start with a blank page so
there are no limits to your creativity. It suits our needs – and
our clients’ needs – whether we’re creating a simple
brochure site or a complex, dynamic site loaded with
interactive features and apps.

7. It allows you to optimise each page for search engines, with
configurable custom URLs and limitless options for adding
tags for SEO, which means the site works effectively as a
marketing tool rather than simply looking gorgeous. Security
is built into the core with varying membership privileges,
protected by passwords for different areas.

8. Everyone has a website these days and increasingly
ordinary people are becoming more familiar with
maintaining and even building them using off-the-shelf easy
website builders.

9. Those are fine if your website needs are modest and you
don’t mind that your chosen template will also have been
used by numerous others. But a truly impressive website
needs to be unique and made with wisdom and an
understanding of what’s possible. A rich but user-friendly
CMS like MODX provides the ideal tools to make that magic
happen.

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