4th Gear Consulting

Helping an Executive Coach Make the Most of His Business

Not long after I first heard about MODX and had an opportunity to build a couple of practice sites with it, Randy at 4th Gear Consulting contacted me and asked about buliding a site.  It was a great opportunity to explore what MODX could really do.

A few weeks go, Randy contact me again.  This time he had a design for a new site but asked me to help him build it on top of MODX, complete with a new blog, and loads of other great front-feautres to help with his executive coaching business.

The new 4thGearConsulting.com is built on MODX Revolution and makes use of several great technologies including some custom jQuery and PHP that ties in with the MODX API.  There are some HTML5 animations on the home page and throughout the site that pull from testimonies that can be entered by Randy or his team.  

Pretty unique about this install was the migration of a legacy Wordpress blog to MODX.  Using some of the foresight provided by DevTrench (Click Here for the Wordpress to MODX series).  It was definitely a challenge and while it wasn't a perfect 1:1 migration (we didn't get tags to migrate, and some of the Wordpress Proprietary stuff didn't work), but definitely something that I would do again.  The core of MODX (xpdo) makes dealing with these different datatypes incredibly easy (where incredibly easy is a relative statement :).

Check out Randy's site at http://www.4thgearconsulting.com.