Although this blog is useful for visitors and easily updatable information, we already have access to blogger to test widgets. We have been considering creating an integrated Wordpress blog for the website which would contain the data from this blog and any updates. It also gives us a chance to test plug-in programming.
We won't be using Wordpress for the website itself - Wordpress may support the widgets, but it isn't compatible with the generators. It would add a significant overhead to maintaining the site, reduce our coding time and also use up more processing power which we are trying to save for the widgets.
The main problem we currently have is bandwidth and backlinks. If you are using these widgets - particularly the ones that don't have referral links - please add a button or link to our page from yours. We aren't integrating them with the widgets to give you a choice of positioning, but to continue offering the widgets we do need the backlinks.
Work for me this week is continuing to look at the embeddable store, focusing on improving performance and user-defined styles, as well as checking the accuracy of search results for books for publisher accounts.
Meanwhile, work on the java reader continues. The main concern is the speed of the Java Runtime plugin itself - which is slow. The other issue is that development could also produce a desktop reader version (full application) which could run epubs that a user has on their PC.
We are looking at whether it is possible to also open and display some of the other Smashwords formats in it (e.g. PDF and .RTF) but that's under discussion as there are already readers available for those formats.
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