SXSWi2008, Day 2: ExpressionEngine 2.0 Sneak Peek
Posted on March 8, 2008
Filed Under Conferences, Web Design, Web Management, sxswi | Tags cms, Conferences, expressionengine, sxsw, sxsw2008, sxswi, sxswi2008
Session by Ellis Lab, makers of ExpressionEngine, a CMS we’re using for our new Digital Branch.
Note to David - there’s an Ellis Labs party - t-shirts!
Goal - you should have control of the code and the design - design shouldn’t have to work around the CMS
They have paid support staff
They claim it’s becoming very popular for developers (of course they’d say that!)
Big News from the coder dude:
- 2.0 is powered by CodeIgniter - an open source PHP framework
- lots of coding libraries - jQuery, Javascript libraries
Control Panel redesign:
- more user-friendly - Create, Modify, View labels
- learning EE tab at bottom - place to put tutorial videos, etc
- site stats link/tab
Create New Entry page
- easy to move fields around
- dynamic sorting
- custom create new labels
- A “write mode” - just the body text area pops up, hiding all other fields - nice
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