Over the last two months, we've been announcing a number of new features or improvements to the Maneno platform. These have ranged from community management of comments, trackbacks, and media files, to custom CSS, to custom pages, to bandwidth options. We feel that we're at a very good point with the site where all the functions that need to be there for someone to manage, modify, and publish their articles are happily humming along. But, we're not going to stop there.

Over the next few months, we will be rolling out some new features as well as improving others. The editing system for HTML on articles is going to get an overhaul for instance. Also, blog management is going to be completely reworked to be more friendly and intuitive. This is especially important to note as we've been working with to incorporate all the new features we've been adding in and now that they're there, the system needs to be made easier for those who are new to blogging or just want an easy interface to work with.

Another item we're going to be integrating in to the standard blogs quite soon is a one column design. You can see this being used on the hosted blogs already, such as Wanjiku. It's another option that people will be able to switch between as well as customize with the custom CSS function.

All of this is aiming to create a platform that is simple to initially use, but then has more advanced features as people become more advanced users and need more powerful tools at their disposal. We've been really enjoying all the people who have been working with the system to date, as well as their feedback and we look forward to the others who are to come in the future!