Website Development

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A good website is easy to navigate from one page to the next and an easy to navigate website will make the following clear to the user:

• Which page he is currently viewing, i.e. where he currently "is" in your website
• What pages he can view

Furthermore, you want to be able to save time and effort in coding your website while also ensuring that your site can be easily modified and updated.This is an ideal situation in which to use PHP server side scripting to dynamically generate the links.

In this post I present code that will generate links grouped under different sub-headings. It will apply a special style to the navigation bar entry for the page that the user is currently viewing.

I have been exploring a new open source content management system called MODx. Its designed to be extremely flexible. It is aimed at developers who like to their hands dirty. Its admin interface is based on AJAX so that even though it looks as good as joomla its actually a lot faster.

While other CMSs provide limited support for modification  MODx embraces cutomisation. You can specify your own CSS, insert your own HTML code and your own PHP and javascript snippets. You can then insert MODx tags in the appropriate places to add content to the HTML files.

I tried it out at opensource CMS and I think it is probably the most flexible CMS I have tried yet. Because it is so developer oriented the learning curve can be a bit steep. And of course, you must really have a need for such low level control of your website. MODx also does not seem to support any sort of remote posting API such as blogger.

From a purely development point of view I think this CMS stands out from the crowd.