Wow 2011 is in full swing for us here at Node-0!

There is one big announcement I'd like to make today, and that is the introduction of the new education system
for Joomla! called J! Edify.

Please see the video below for a preview of how J! Edify will behave:




The goal of this system is to replace the built-in help system of Joomla! (the built-in help system will still
function the way it always has, nothing will be disabled) with a contextually aware system. This means the
system will be aware of the context you are in on a given screen in the back and administrator of Joomla!\
Having this awareness will allow the system to give you the most relevant help information possible. This
translates into less reading material for you the user of the backend administrator  and a much easier learning
curve in Joomla!


There are some more features in store for J! Edify  which we will reveal as we get closer and closer to the
release date which is slated for the third week of January.

Even more exciting than the education system we are developing, is the Nexus component suite.

Nexus is a complete re-imagining of the way an ideal CMS should function, the goal is not mere "capability"
or even "ease of use", the goal is to make logging into the site to do content oriented work "fun", so "fun" that
laypeople will want to come back and update their sites all the time.

Instead of requiring a user to alternate between many disparate managers for X and managers for Y; Nexus
replaces the entire paradigm which one coherent view. In place of having to run around the back end of Joomla!
visiting many managers in order to perform tasks such as adding an article to the front page or creating a menu
item which links to a gallery , common functions which are performed hundreds of times a day on websites all
over the Internet. Functions which should not require any more than the semantically essential amount of
information given to the system in order for it to organize and present content. Currently of the three major
content management systems on the web, (WordPress, Drupal and Joomla!) only WordPress currently succeeds in
making content creation and presentation accessible (this does not mean "possible", this means "easy" ) for a
layperson.