I’ve just read Julian Wraith’s new blog post showcasing the visual highlights of Tridion 2011.

Whilst Tridion 2009 had a visually enhanced content manager interface (GUI), this was merely a new lick of CSS to give the GUI a visual refresh over Tridion 5.X versions.

However the SDL Tridon 2011 GUI has been completely re-built from scratch (using Microsoft .NET, older versions we’re ASP based) and has a new design layout featuring a Microsoft Office style ‘ribbon’ containing older contextual menu functions.

Even better not only does Tridion 2011 now run on all browsers and platforms (previously it was Windows IE only!) it also seems to function on IPads and IPhones.

I’m looking forward to having a play with 2011 and seeing what other new enhancements are present.

If you’re interested in seeing the new GUI in action have a watch of this Youtube video that has been uploaded.

Thanks to Rainmaker2k and of course Julian for putting this information out there.