Widget Update

Those of you who have published blog or web site widgets may have noticed some subtle changes to your widgets as of this evening.  We have updated our widget styles to make them customizable.  Gone are the rounded edges (boo hoo), but in their place, you can now specify a custom color for your widget's background, border, and link color (woo hoo).  

Or, you can leave your background and border color transparent, so you don't even have a border/background (choose the "Blank Slate" style on the "Edit Widget" page).

Not much more to say about this for now, but just wanted to drop a line here for those who visit after noticing that there's something different about that Bonanzle blog widget of theirs.  Widgets are going to be a key part of another initiative we'll be rolling out in the not-too-distant future, so we wanted to get them in tip top shape for those of you with the black backgrounds, or the color schemes that generally don't look pretty against green and brown.

(Geek speek minute:  why no rounded edges?  With the current state of CSS, there is no way in the current web to allow for rounded edges unless one knows in advance the color of either the background or foreground, so they can render said colors into a background image, which is used to round the edges.  With CSS3, rounded edges will be a supported style option.  Ah, but that we were born too early!)

 I've pasted my totally tubular widget at right to give one example of a new color scheme available.