I can't resist showing some kind of teaser - following in the footsteps of Jason & Shaun, we're in the middle of building out our shiny new (MODx Revolution powered) blog to showcase some of the more technical & intimate details of what goes on here.

We're planning to start by blogging about building the blog itself - as well as the basics, it's going to have a couple of 'experimental' cool features and we've given ourselves an excuse to build 3PC's, custom TV input types and custom TV output types.

Looking forward to launching it after we've skinned it =)

 ^ Wireframes for the blog - to be passed onto our designers.

^ Backend in development...

The first thing that struck me was how many *good* packages are already available for MODx in a short space of time since we started building sites in Revolution (most coming out of Shaun McCormick's underground lab). You can build a blog very very easily now using a few core snippets and even through drag and drop from the elements tree.

Adding special touches isn't hard either - I installed Shaun's Gallery package and was amazed when I turned on the gallerific plugin, dragged the Gallery element into a document and it just worked - even without adding my own css.