Screencasts seem like a great way to go, but I have a feeling that once a major version of WordPress is released I’d be updating those all over again…

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To answer your question, right now the majority of my clientele is…well what it is, really. At the moment (since I’m on sabbatical) I’m doing subcontracting for just 2 well-established design firms. Before I went on sabbatical, I had real estate agents, one apartment complex (which is actually finally due to go live here in the next couple of months), a few online stores, a musician – you name it, I’ve done it I suppose But this is onereason I wanted to go n sabbatical – to get my direction and focus going. Since I actually do have a culinary degree, I gravitate more towards foodies and the food industry – but sadly, that’s the *only* type of client I’ve yet to get!

I think it’s very interesting how you are looking for other experts in the field to not necessarily work for you, but instead collaborate with. It shows me that you have a good sense of what you want to accomplish for your clients, but that (like everyone) we all sometimes need a little help getting there.

I was curious, what is the majority of your clientele? Ironically, the two websites I manage are both restaurants. =P

Keep up the writing. Just added the feed. Can’t wait to hear more from a fellow web/graphic designer on her sabbatical!

-RJ

You just have to find a security minded web host is all.

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I didn’t investigate too much on the PCI compliance as far as Magento is concerned, my understanding it, it’s not out-of-the-box but if you go with Enterprise Edition (near $9k a year) than it’s PCI compliance. It’s darn important to make your eCommerce store PCI Compliance if payment gateway is used, if you use payment option such as Google Checkout or Paypal then you are OK without it. A few Magento optimized web-hosts have started offering PCI compliant servers, I think this is a more cost effective approach for small businesses.

MODx is, and my experiences with MODx are very positive. The flexibility is amazing. Once you get the hang of it you can do pretty much everything, even as a beginner. Programmers will keep their freedom to play with their fancy PHP-code. The extendility and implementation of the MODx backend is a little stiff though.

I also got my copy of the MODx web development book. I found it really informative. It explains the capabilities of MODx really well, especially for us beginners.

Only one thing. The word ‘hence’ was so overused (especially in the first two chapters!). Ah well, whining me. Book is great.

However, I do disagree with your view on WordPress. (I’m not sure what “Flutter” and “Pods” are, so I won’t argue that point.) I’ve been developing sites with WordPress – pretty much soleley – for the last 4 years, I think? Since version 1.5.x. I haven’t done a non-WordPress site in the last 2 years. And only two of them are blogs – one of them is this one.

I’ve been developing for WordPress as a CMS for many many happy clients. So I do disagree that WP is not a CMS platform – if you know what you’re doing, it certainly is, and it’s not that difficult to pull off, either. I agree, though – you needto be able to actually apply some PHP coding knowledge to get some real customization going for it, but I can’t say that I view WordPress as just a blogging platform anymore.

But again, thanks for your input on ModX – as I mentioned before, I am definitely excited to dive in an see what I can do with it I still haven’t had the opportunity to dive in yet – not as much as I’d like anyway – but it’s climbing in my queue quickly. I’m itchin’ to give it a really good go!