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We've been working hard over the past few weeks here at customize to put together our own wiki-powered help pages. Launching today, we have a main help section accessible under the help tab, as well as individual help sections for each application (e.g. XP Themes, Wallpapers etc). We want our help sections to be the definitive resource for all aspects of customization, to help new and experienced users alike, so we're calling on everyone to pool together their knowledge and help us to buil...

After years of planning, and months of development and testing, we have now officially opened the doors to the EVOlution of Customize.org! For those of you who have just arrived, check out some of our new features: Submissions, Voting, Browsing, UploadingGroups, Profiles, Blogs, MessagesOr just browse by: popular, colors, tags, featured, bundles... Screenshots can now be labelled so you can find out exactly how people have created their desktops (click the image below and then hover ove...

If you copy/paste the URL of a submission into a blog post, it will now made into a large thumbnail (as opposed to the smaller ones in the groups)... http://beta.customize.org/wallpapers/4868
1 This could be useful if you want to make a list of e.g. your favorite subs! We're gonna be expanding the blog formatting further in the coming weeks. Post here if you have any ideas for what you'd like to do with blogs...

Here's a quick overview of some of our new features: Groups - the old forum is now the general discussion group: http://beta.customize.org/groups/general Groups can be created for art groups, platforms, software or anything you think would be of interest. Topics now feature "live discussion" which is our attempt at merging IRC with traditional forums (you'll notice this when someone else is typing a reply to a topic you're looking at!). Profiles - You can now add other members to your...

Welcome Custo Members! We're not open to everyone yet, so please help us iron out the last few remaining bugs by letting us know your feedback here: http://beta.customize.org/groups/custo And be sure to check out the new features posts in the news section for a quick overview of all the new stuff!

This is my blog post about working on EVO, but really its just to make sure blogs are working :)