One other question I have and I know that this will obviously become apparent when the software is released but will the back-end have Veerles logo in there?
As great a designer as Veerle is I am worried that if it is in there then any clients that have access to the back-end are not only going to see the ExpressionEngine logo (no offence meant here at all) but also Veerles logo (again no offence intended) and they might start asking questions like why did we come to you and not go to them instead?

Is Veerles logo just because the currently logged-in user has that set somewhere as their image?

Best wishes,

Mark

Thanks, Derek!

One question, if possible to answer at the current moment: I noticed the search in the sidebar of the new edit screen - would that perhaps allow searching “on the fly” for related older postings and adding a link to them in the new post easier then now? That would make a great addition for some applications.

.Markus

Mark Bowen - 08 March 2008 01:52 PM

Is Veerles logo just because the currently logged-in user has that set somewhere as their image?

Im only speculating but I would assume that is changeable per site.

Will the be native member templates be easily themeable as well.

Awaiting that answer with baited breath ;-)
And, will they be templatable?

Whoa thanks for posting those Derek - it’s looking very interesting!

@Mark - I know it’s early days yet but seeing the general direction I think a lot of my customers would like the new type interface, and that’s important. Knowing the way EE develop stuff hopefully your fears will be put to rest when you try it.

Mark Bowen - 08 March 2008 01:52 PM

Is Veerles logo just because the currently logged-in user has that set somewhere as their image?

Mark, the logo is for the company, or site/domain whatever - similar to how you can upload a logo for a company in Basecamp - her logo happens to be in there on the demo install.

Now let the speculation on “Build: 20080401” from the footer begin. And yeah, it’s Fool’s day. Maybe that’s for my own consumption.

Hi everyone,

First of all sorry to the admins for what probably seem like very silly questions coming from my corner. It’s probably because not being there and seeing the admin side of things working in real-time then I have different questions to those of others who were that at the time as we notice different things so I apologise for the questions as I know that there is a long way to go as of yet.

Hopefully as Derek says the admin panel will be very configurable and style-able as this will definitely be a major plus. No offence to Veerle as I really do like her work but in this instance it just wasn’t doing it for me but that is entirely a personal thing so I will shush up about that!

As to the logo is it not Derek who is logged-in at the moment?

As a couple of people have said previously the member templates would be a major boon if they can be styled as we see fit and really all we need for that to happen is more member tags so that we can do this. This will definitely be a fantastic addition if it happens.

Best wishes,

Mark

A couple more quickies:

Will there be any video to accompany the screens?
Was there any video shown in the presentation or a live demo?

Cheers

As a side note, I hope the CP will format well for those of us who bump the text size up a couple of notches.

It’s already March and Leopard came out last October. When were those screen shots taken?

I’m very pleased to see that the admin area has been revamped. Looking forward to more details being revealed.

Always one conspiracy theorist in the house

You know what they say ... your not really paranoid if someone really is after you

-Alan- - 08 March 2008 02:17 PM

It’s already March and Leopard came out last October. When were those screen shots taken?

Derek what host are you with. It seems as though your page with the screen-shots has gone down? Or have you taken the page access down or something?

Best wishes,

Mark

Hmm as soon as I posted they came back online again. Sorry about that. Must be all of us hitting the page so hard

Also not meaning to look completely stupid or anything but did you mean that the system has Leopard on or doesn’t and how could you tell anyway?

Best wishes,

Mark

@leevi,

I thought it was:

Just because you’re paranoid,doesn’t mean no one’s out to get you.

Well, here’s some details. Derek J is talking right now and I’m a real slow typer…

Accessories - New Tabs at the bottom of control panel (you select where each Accessory shows up) that can hold just about anything - including Monty Python videos (not kidding).

Looks like all flavors of Add Sitename extension are no longer necessary. In fact, it appears that Extensions as we know them are “dead” - as the CP seems to be running on MVC (module view controller) setup that will make modifying the CP very easy.

The Members module is now it’s own section with it’s own admin area - this may bode well for improvements there.

Dynamic filtering in the CP, jQuery tablesorting and subsorting by holding down “Shift”, AJAX paging in the CP - Preference editing inline for each template in the template groups.

Well this day was deemed special for illuminati.