OK. . .  some video from this afternoon.

** Update: Visit the Official ExpressionEngine 2.0 Preview **

The original videos shot with my laptop-cam at SXSW are not nearly as fun, good, or informative as the what we have for you on the preview site, so they have been taken down.

You guys don’t want to hear the rest of this stuff. It’s interesting, but not groundbreaking or mindblowing, so I’ll sign off here and get ready to go hang a the Moonshine Grill.

Kurt Deutscher - 08 March 2008 11:07 PM

OK. . .  some video from this afternoon.

** Update: Visit the Official ExpressionEngine 2.0 Preview **

The original videos shot with my laptop-cam at SXSW are not nearly as fun, good, or informative as the what we have for you on the preview site, so they have been taken down.

Downloading now!!

Best wishes,

Mark

Very excited about the CI integration, just started our first project using CI, looking forward to getting to know it more.

textdriven - 08 March 2008 10:26 PM

There something about the big fonts, colors, icons and gradients that make it very unappealing to me, I prefer refined, subtle, clear and professional.

My opinion echoes yours. This gui is 5 years too late - big type, rounded corners, gradients, watermarked backgrounds… burp.

Just my opinion. As long as the markup is responsibly div’d, id’d and classed I’ll have nothing to complain about.

Has anything been said about stand alone edit functionality? and entries/pages with hierarchy..?

Sorry to bother but what is CI?

iain - 08 March 2008 11:48 PM

textdriven - 08 March 2008 10:26 PM

There something about the big fonts, colors, icons and gradients that make it very unappealing to me, I prefer refined, subtle, clear and professional.

My opinion echoes yours. This gui is 5 years too late - big type, rounded corners, gradients, watermarked backgrounds.

Phew and I thought it was just me being awkward earlier on

Hopefully we should be able to ‘skin’ the back-end very easily though as I do believe this will be very important.

Best wishes,

Mark

tuittu - 08 March 2008 11:55 PM

Sorry to bother but what is CI?

Code Igniter, which is EllisLab’s own PHP framework.

The Devs might like hearing this:

I’ve not heard of Expression Engine before but a quick check of the internet during the SXSW Rawks panel I realised it was a session worth investigating. Expression Engine is a well priced CMS which seems to be both powerful and desincentric. What they presented literally blew me away. Of all the features on display the sheer innovation in the interface was the thing which impressed me the most. Shit was shown that I didn’t even think was possible. From the reaction from the more technically minded, it would seem the CMS itself is very good behind the scenes being fast, scalable and customisable. It’s something TAK! will definately look at for certain projects.

I ran across this via a Google blog search.

I must apologise on behalf of the person that wrote that above. Just read the page that is on and they are apparently a group from the Midlands here in the UK which is where I am from. Many apologies for the expletive, even though I didn’t say it and probably never would hopefully!!

Just so you know we’re not all like that from here

Nice to see that someone who was there and hadn’t really heard of EE before liked what they saw though.

Best wishes,

Mark

Finally found this thread! I have just posted notes from the Open Panel with EllisLab.

http://davidrussell.org/2008/03/08/expressionengine-open-panel-at-sxsw/

Also, I’m sorry about the lack of quality on the photos earlier. More than anything, I was just trying to get information out to all of you as quickly as possible. There were others snapping and I think I rolled by a post from Derek with the real deal screenshots.

If I ever meet you david, I’m buying you a beer.

Great effort.

David, I’ll buy you a beer today if I figure out who you are!

I’d love to hear something about the gallery. was there any trace of it in the demo?

@Bobh: I haven’t heard anything about Gallery specifically, but I wasn’t there - only checking the web way too many times. Changes to file management/upload are in the works, though.

@David, interesting writeup - many thanks for all you did today. There were dozens at least following your twitter this morning. You’re the man of the hour.

@Ryan: Sorry, did not mean to eschew credit where credit is due, oh great SineNamer. Color me ignorant. Thanks go to you too.

I’ll go ahead and agree with the growing consensus on the styling of the CP. Verlee is a great designer, but here I would prefer something quieter, more like 31Three. For me, the more minimalism the better in this kind of application. (WordPress tiger admin comes to mind.) Images, who needs images? The layout/structure though looks like it’s going in a much improved direction, and that’s the important part for now. The rest, we can theme.

Hey, thanks to everyone who posted info & screenshots etc, made for good Sunday morning reading down here in sunny Sydney

Congrats to the EL team on getting everything together, sounds like you’ve been all working super hard!

For fellow forum people, on the WYSIWYG question, with jQuery support I don’t think it would be hard to drop in a lightweight wysiwyg editor like jWYSIWYG (look at the code example!), & I can understand the EL position of wanting to keep data clean by default.

I note weblogs are (currently at least) now “collections” too

New CP looks good, I think focusing effort here will really help people feel more comfortable with EE, espcially if it’s more customizable from a designer/developer point of view. I thought MT had made some good steps here and looks like you guys are heading in a similar direction so that’s cool.

On having EE run off CI, I think this will have pretty amazing implications down the track - all the CI community effort benefiting EE and vice versa will be pretty huge. The benefits of this move may not be immediately apparent for most people, but still. Adding stuff like OpenID & other user management, low level integration, different templating options etc etc etc, will all be a lot easier I imagine. Basically a lot of stuff people have requested will become a lot easier for developers to add, and there will be a lot more community-developed stuff for niche cases where official development doesn’t make sense for whatever reason. That’s my random speculation anyway

When the EL team are back and have recovered from all the stress, travel and partying etc (heh) I would love to see a blog post from one of the team elaborating a bit more on what they think the EE/CI integration will mean for EE in the longer-term, I think that might help people understand more of the potential benefits too

Cheers all!

Is there going to be a substantial change in the pricing?

Will the Multiple Site Manager still be necessary to run multiple sites?

Is EE 2.0 built on the current version of CodeIgniter, or a new version?

mdesign - 08 March 2008 09:45 PM

1.6.x to 2.0 is “definitely an upgrade and not a transition”.

I like this! EE 2.0 sounds awesome, but all I have been thinking about is EVERYTHING breaking in the transition over to it. Definitely a relief to know that it’s considered and upgrade.

This is not a live blog entry but I have posted a lengthy response to this new information on my blog as well.  Check it out here if you like.