MODx is an open source Content Management System. The CMS works as a PHP Application Framework that helps users publish/maintain their websites easily. What’s great about MODs is that it empowers developers and advanced users to give as much control as desired to whomever they desire for day-to-day website content maintenance chores.

A few examples of built-by-MODx websites are www.rebirth-festival.nl and www.sumtotalonline.com.

As mentioned in their official website, MODx began in late 2004 out of the desire to have an expendable content management system on which to build standards compliant websites that perform exceptionally well in search engines (Yes indeed it is! When compare with Joomla and Drupal, MODx offer better SEO value).

MODx at Bluehost

Not all hosting companies provide easy installation for MODx as the CMS is not included in Fantastico’s script list. However that’s not the case for Bluehost. One of the best thing I like Bluehost is that they support both SimpleScripts and Fantastico. This offer wider selections for users like me who wish to try out new web applications.

To install MODx, simply sign into your cPanel control panel, go to SimpleScripts, and select MODx from the SimpleScripts index page. It should lead you to a page as above. Click ‘Install Now’ and input a few basic inputs, the whole setup process should be done within minutes.

What’s a CMS?

There are lots of different definition for the CMS however in our case, a CMS simple means a computer application used to create, edit, manage, and publish web content in a consistently organized fashion. Generally CMS are very user friendly thus people who’re not familiar with web programming to publish and maintaining web content easily.

What are the CMS you can get at Bluehost?

At Bluehost, there are a long list of free CMS. These CMS are ready to be installed within a few clicks with the help of Fantastico and Simple Scripts.

For instant, here’s the list you’ll get from Fantastico in Bluehost.

• Drupal
• Geeklog
• Joomla
• Mambo Open Source
• PHP-Nuke
• phpWebSite
• phpWCMS
• Post-Nuke
• Siteframe
• WordPress
• Xoops

Bluehost hosting also support other cms content management, for example moodle or pligg social bookmark script, and more.

My personal preferences on Content Management System (CMS)?

I used to work long hours on Dreamweaver and Zend to create my websites before I tried WordPress. Not that I didn’t know about all the CMS available free online nor they are not good; but I am being really picky with the CMS features.

Well then again, WordPress came into the picture and everything’s just changed.

People who knew me well should know that I’m a big fans of WordPress. WordPress is often known as a blog scripts rather than a CMS. However this is a very wrong perception because WordPress nowadays had revolved into something more than just a blog scripts. In fact, the reason I picked WordPress as my favourites is because that the folks in WP had made the scripts more powerful ever than any CMS in the market. WordPress websites are extremely user-friendly, easy to SEO, convenient to be maintained, stable, and there are tons of free addons (plugin).