We had a wonderful turnout at today’s free training seminar for designers; and by “wonderful” I mean we were at capacity and actually had to turn away visitors because our Adobe Connect account couldn’t accomodate everyone. I must say that it is so rewarding for me and everyone working on this project to see a turn out like this and it reaffirms that the Melody project really is poised to be a huge contender in the content management and blog publishing space.
We are currently in the process of assembling a video and screencast of today’s seminar, so if you missed it, you can always wait to see it again later on in the week when that process is complete. In the meantime, here are the slides from today’s presentation:
Update: the audio component (provided separately) is now available.
We encourage you to share the presentation with your friends and the designers you may know.
At the end of the presentation we also invited attendees to ask us questions. Here are a few of the questions they asked (with answers of course):
Will Melody have a custom fields solution?
The answer is a resounding yes. It is not likely that the solution will be fully integrated into the core product by the time we ship Melody 1.0, but it will be available as an optional plugin to help facilitate its testing and development.
Will Melody have a redesigned administrative console or user interface?
It is certainly the core team’s desire to revamp the user interface to clearly differentiate it from its cousin, and to make much needed enhancements to certain key aspects of its user interface, but whether or not such a drastic change is ready in time for a 1.0 release depends upon the community’s willingness to design, test and support such a change. It is our suspicion that a redesign is not likely for Melody 1.0, but then again the community has surprised us before, so we will see.
I’m so ticked at myself. I meant to listen in Wednesday but I’m in the depths of a website design and completely spaced it out.
Didn’t remember it till 11pm Wed night.
Thanks for posting the slides and audio.