first post of the New Year

There are some nice updates to zinepal.com this week! First, zines now always use a two-column layout by default. This creates easier to read and more professional looking zines. It works very well for text or text with some smaller images. There is still some work to be done to properly resize large images or handle overflowing text, but overall it now works very well for all common cases.

The other change is that the full zine formatting options are no available for ad-hoc zines, in addition to recurring zines. For example, this means you can now add a custom logo to your ad-hoc zines! Overall this is a very good change since it allows casual or new users to utilize all of the zinepal.com features.

The next task is to further improve the two-column zine layout and make some tweaks to the zinepal.com site layout. Stay tuned!

Also: here is a short video of me pitching zinepal.com at the Mobile Monday Vancouver event in November 2008.