Weird, it only emailed me about Ken's response!
Believe me, I am excited too. I think our Programmers are excited (or pressured?) as well because they keep slightly under-estimating their time frame. "Oh that? Yep, it will be done tomorrow!" Not.
That is why I had to stop posting semi-dates as why embarrass myself more than necessary? If you knew how many 'done' dates I have known about...
Right now, once the navigation portion of Design Center is added in, I would like to share it with the forum to get feedback. At that point, I would hope beta testing would start soon after that. (Well, our QA team has beta tested a bunch... but client beta testing...)
So, very soon. It's riiighhhttt there. So close. The major stuff is done, it does need a lot of polishing up (to be user friendly to navigatate, etc.) but it's very close.
Very soon.
As for ranking better, it will be interesting to see what happens. I think our URLs (besides the mess of page duplication) are fine... but with the new URL structure it will be interesting to see what happens. I always like performing tests like that.