This week's update includes three new styles:

• Back to Basics is a clean, general-purpose style with a modern touch.
• Business Casual is what it sounds like: a business-ready style that's not overly formal.
• Candy Striper is a more playful style to balance the other two.  Its name is a pun on its cotton candy-like colors and the stripe motif in its header.

Enjoy!

Today we're unveiling a new feature that we've been working on for quite a while: user-created add-ons.  These add-ons use the OpenSocial API, an emerging standard for socially-enabled gadgets supported by folks like Google, MySpace, and Yahoo!

What does this mean for you?

If you're a site builder, you'll ultimately have a much larger library of add-ons to use with your site.  You'll be able to choose both from the add-ons we develop and from the add-ons shared with the Webon community by developers.  In addition, these user-created add-ons can take advantage of user profiles, friends lists, and other social features.

If you're a developer, you can now extend your site's functionality by creating custom add-ons.  What's more, you can easily share your creations, giving them a larger audience than they otherwise would have.  And because our add-ons use the OpenSocial API, you don't need to learn a proprietary language to create them.

This is all part of our goal of making Webon a user-extensible platform, not one that's defined solely by us.  If you'd like to try your hand at creating an add-on, check out this early peek at our Add-On Editor.  After you've saved an add-on, it'll be available the next time you edit a site; just select "my add-ons" from the pulldown menu in the Add-Ons window.

Please note: we don't yet support the entire OpenSocial API (version 0.8 to be precise), and we're still working on developer documentation.  But we wanted to let you start playing around with the editor so that you could give us feedback.

Enjoy!

As some of you have already noticed, we've rolled out some new styles over the past week:

• Black Lace has a dark background with gold highlights and a very classy feel to the typography.
• Charcoal is a clean style with a black background and gray and red accent colors.
• Vino is saturated with purple.  If you like deep, vivid colors, this is the style for you.

We've also seen some good user-submitted styles such as Rojo recently.  Check them out!

At the end of last week, we released a major update to the Style Editor.  It's intended for builders who want to edit the CSS for their sites, but in the future we'll roll out another update that will let you change the basic elements of a style, such as color and background, without knowing any CSS.

The new Style Editor now includes:

• code highlighting for the Source View
• a revamped Properties View (formerly Visual View) that makes it easy to jump between selectors and upload images
• a significant performance boost over the old editor

We hope you like the changes.  If you've never worked with the Style Editor before, you can find it by opening the Styles window and clicking the Customize link for your site's style.

Let us know what you think, and remember to hit the Share button for any styles you create that you think other builders might appreciate. 

Earlier this week, we released two new styles, Americana and Taped Down, which you can find by clicking on Styles in the site editor.  (Taped Down can be found under the "user-submitted" category, but strummer6048 designed it on our behalf.)

We plan to roll out new styles pretty regularly for the foreseeable future.  Enjoy!