Work underway

This week should be busy. First, thank you very much for the feedback, we're working on things on the back end. We've switched much of the string manipulation to UTF8, which reduces or solves the heiroglyphic problem some czech and german users were encountering. The engine has received a small improvement, which should make it slightly faster.

Projects this week include a few improvements to the Embeddable store:
Text and Image links to open it in a new window for use by users on Wordpress, Squidoo and other sites that don't allow iframes. The store itself will get a new version, including fixed width, to enable this.
Other planned additions include a generator to work with the store, allowing selection of third party retailers (e.g. if you are never on Amazon, the link won't show). Selectable colours and a stylesheet is something we are being cautious on - users may get a pre-set choice of 5 stylesheets, instead of free selection due to security implications.

There is a major widget development going on, but in case it doesn't work I don't want to raise hopes by going into detail.

Other things underway include a planned book banner generator with static and some animated banners. Useful for people with access to Paint, limited designs skills or no animation software. Unfortunately we are limited to Gif Animations and (again due to security concerns - and our bandwidth!) we can't currently serve animated images dynamically. Users would need to save them locally and upload - OK for Project Wonderful but not so good for websites. We're looking for a solution.

And aside from these there are the general tweaks, improvements and refinements that have been requested.