David Molliere is a freelance webdesigner living in Paris. He runs his personal site david-molliere.net.

Currently he is heading the marketing effort for MODx, an open source CMS and php application framework.

David likes to cook and is quite an amateur wine buff (not only French wine!). His main hobby is digital photography, which tags along well with a taste for travelling and long weekends. He is a big reader of thrillers, a ravenous watcher of US TV shows, and goes to the movies at least twice a week.

Q. Hi David, are you an extensive shopper :)?

LOL :)

Well it depends what I am shopping for. Don’t ever get me close to a high-tech store or a wine shop or I might end up on a shopping spree, burning my credit card to shreds ;) That’s how I recently got myself a 17” MacBook Pro or a 1998 Saint Estèphe, not a reasonnable thing to buy but hey, how could I resist?

Q. You are the main marketing director of MODx. That does imply you are responsible to popularize MODx CMS. Correct?

Director might be too strong a word :P , especially if you consider that there is no rigid structure at MODx. Things are not based on status, but rather on involvement and skills.

Ryan Thrash (founder) is the one who offered me to join the team and help the marketing effort in November 2005. I had created some buzz to make MODx quite a popular CMS in France. I wrote an article about MODx for a famous french webzine about opensource software, which is among the top referrers of modxcms.com. Also, I posted a review of MODx at Webmaster-Hub, which got quite some attention. Of course, it’s easier to stand out in the French world than in the English speaking community where the competition is fierce, but it was enough to convince Ryan that I would be an asset for MODx marketing.

One very nice thing for me is

David Molliere is a freelance webdesigner living in Paris. He runs his personal site david-molliere.net.

Currently he is heading the marketing effort for MODx, an open source CMS and php application framework.

David likes to cook and is quite an amateur wine buff (not only French wine!). His main hobby is digital photography, which tags along well with a taste for travelling and long weekends. He is a big reader of thrillers, a ravenous watcher of US TV shows, and goes to the movies at least twice a week.

Q. David, you are member of the MODx team and have been around TXP too, translating, building the French board and part of the official online documentation called Textbook back in 2004. How important is it for you to belong to a well working OS community?

My first involvement with open source communities

I can’t exactly remember when, but probably sometime in June I was roaming through the sites my feedreader picked up over at CSSmania and I came across this site called PodShop. It was a clean site with solid and playful icons. It was heavy on the mac feel which tickled some special places for me, and finally I got into the bits about the creation of this site and spotted a couple of things that drew my interest. The first was that PodShop’s blog was handled with Textpattern, and the second was that the owner of PodShop, Christopher Anderson was also the developer and designer, and he reads all the same stuff I do. “Alright”, I said, “This guy needs an interview”. And so, here it is…

Q. Chris, first lets talk about your site: Podshop.com is a strong example of a warm and friendly css site that defies the boxy look that CSS was once known for. The site uses a great deal of imagery, icons, and rounded corners that all make the site warm, friendly, and even playful. What moved you in this direction for an ipod product site over …

TXP member Neil Atwood lives in Australia, is an anglican pastor and has four sons. He blogs about christianity and tech stuff on westserve.org. Neil loves roasting coffee. ministrygrounds.net is his site for all things coffee related.
TXP Mag did talk with Neil about real and online communities.

Q. International reseaches imply more and more people attend online communities while real life communities loose members. What do you think is so

An interview with TXP forum moderator Matthew Smith aka ma_smith.

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Q. Hi Tom, since when are you in the design/webdev business?

Tom: My first experience with web publishing was a little over a year ago for a school project. Since then….

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Links

• Exaudi
• Nardo

Last month Kursor had the chance to ask some questions to Dean about weblogs, Open Source and Textpattern.
Thanks to Kusor and Dean, who gave permission to publish the short interview here on TXP Mag.

K: A good day, you decided day to start Textism, why a weblog?, merely fashion?

Dean: Honestly I didn’t have too much of an idea of what a

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Denny was so kind to talk about blogging and webdesign in Russia to TXP Magazine.

*The Interview*

Do many people blog in Russia?

Yeah! There are many. For example, my friends Yury Pospelov

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