How and why did MODx start?
The MODx project started out of frustration after a multi-year search for an open source CMF (Content Management Framework). We needed a solution that would allow us to quickly build clean XHTML/CSS sites and web applications (i.e., a sensible, robust and extendable API without extended learning curves), and that also worked as a great marketing-site CMS. While MODx began as an add-on hack of Etomite, the founders ultimately found themselves having to choose between forking the project or abandoning over a thousand hours of work. They chose dinnerware.
