While this isn’t a true Web and Flow Design site, it is a creation of mine.

As many of you would know, in addition to my Web and Flow projects, I work for The Salvation Army in North Carolina developing websites and internal tools among many other things.  Follow months of frustration with our old CMS, I researched and found MODx – an incredible system that hadn’t had an official “1.0″ release yet – but appeared solid, was incredibly extensible, and seemed to have a growing and dedicated following.

Long story short, I began developing a new website for the North and South Carolina Division based on MODx (now at 1.0.2) and it has been an incredible experience.  With an organization the size of The Salvation Army, we have information scattered everywhere that we needed to pull into a comprehensive website.

Another issue was that many of our 50+ offices needed a web presence but did not have the staff or the means to build one.  MODx has allowed us to create individual but incorporated sites and, for those that don’t want to or cannot edit content themselves, to push “default” content to keep their sites fresh and relevant.

We’ve obviously accomplished a lot more but these are definitely the highlights.

Oh, and the incredible improvement in traffic, response time, and reliability doesn’t hurt either

MODx is an incredible system and powers many of my recent sites.

The guys over at MODx have featured this site in their February Newsletter (which is a great way to kick off the new blog here, btw).  You can read that feature here.

Check out the Salvation Army Carolinas website at http://www.salvationarmycarolinas.org.

We’re also well into the planning stages of “Phase 2″ of our project which includes the development of many more web tools built on MODx!  Updates will come soon!