quick update

I haven't written a blog entry in a while, so here is a quick update. September saw another good increase in traffic with a few nice articles written about zinepal:

• Springwise: a nice article about zinepal.com
• Wired: the Italian edition of Wired writes about zinepal ... Google Translate does a decent job with this article
• Bloggingtips.com: use zinepal to rebadge your blog content

It's always great to see zinepal in the news and it keeps me motivated to work on it. Along with the articles came quite a few e-mails asking about my future plans for the site. I haven't worked on it too much over summer, but here is a list of features that have been requested frequently and that I hope to add soon:

• zinepal.com API so you can integrate the PDF and eBook creation functionality with other web sites
• one column layout and custom paper sizes
• cover pages and table of contents

Recently I also finished a small update that fixes a few bugs in the PDF generator that caused zine creation to fail. Hopefully that is the last of them and the generator should be more reliable going forward. I've also made it possible to add links to advertising images and updated the PDF generator to use a higher resolution for images.

Finally, the site has seen a pretty big increase in traffic and I had to upgrade the hosting plan. To offset some of the costs of running the site I'm planning to introduce zinepal.com pro accounts soon. More on that in another blog post later this week.