Hello all! It has been quite a while since I’ve posted anything here. I’ve been spending most of my free time improving Shadowbox instead of writing new blog material.

Due to popular demand, the next version of Shadowbox will have much improved i18n support (among other improvements). However, unfortunately I’m only fluent in 1.5 languages (English and some Italian), so I need your help. If you would like Shadowbox translated into your native tongue, please translate the following object and post it here or send it to me.

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Just like almost every other blogger I know, I recently fell victim to the blog redesign bug. I apologize to those of you who have been waiting for new features to be incorporated into Shadowbox, but I just felt like I had to get this off of my mind first. Now that it’s done (with a few small bugs still hanging around in various browsers no doubt) I’ll be getting on with more serious projects.

One major change that I made with the site is in the commenting. Instead of using straight HTML, I switched to using John Gruber’s Markdown format. In fact, pretty much the whole site is based on Markdown now. The posts, comments, and even the comment preview function. By the way, I plan on making the comment preview plugin available on WordPress as soon as I get some time.

If you’re afraid of Markdown, don’t be. It is the most easy-to-use writing tool that I can think of. In fact, I bet you already know most of the rules.

I have a lot of good stuff in the works that I’ll be making publicly available very soon. In the meantime, feel free to let me know what you think of the redesign!