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Alright... I'm on the verge of getting an E-X license, but kinda want to get an understanding what to expect & budget for going forward. Will be hiring a designer familiar with the CMS to get things initially setup and get the basic look & functionality I want, but not fully clear on how things will stand going forward from that...

From what people have posted here it can be a bitch to customize, I'm wondering how much of a bitch. Can you do basic changes with an overall working knowledge of PHP/CSS or does it really require an expertise specifically in E-X and/or Smarty?

For example say my designer has already built the pages as requested, but somewhere down the road I want to make some changes to a few page layouts and maybe some of the members area page hierarchies. Nothing major for a self-built site or even common CMS like WP or Drupal. But from what I'm hearing Elevated-X can be really tough to work with in that regard, again maybe the people saying that don't have much experience tweaking any CMSs or modifying PHP code.

Since I'm just a small fry one-man operation, by no means do I have a fulltime designer and it would be great to be able to change things on my own rather than bring in a 3rd party every single time. Curious what y'alls experiences are, either from a paysite owner or designer/developer's perspective...

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