My Opera News

Hi, I've got good news. We are launching a major My Opera upgrade in less than a month. We have been working on this for quite some time now and we are exited about it.

There's many new features and improvements in the code, but the most noticeable change is of course the design. I tried a number of different designs before I got it right. The design process even included using water colors for painting and then scanning it.

The first screenshot shows the My Opera home page with news, featured users and featured photos. (note: the screenshot is taken from our internal test server and is using test content, so some things such as the news headers and news images do not match)

The second screenshot is from a new section called "people". It has almost the same content as the users about page but with standard community design. The people section will make it easier for you to find and browse user profiles. We have some cool plans for this section in the future, but the first version will be quite simple.

Another big change is that the account pages has the standard community design. This means that when you edit your profile, send messages, etc you will stay in the community design.

We have also added more blog sidebar customization features. You will be able to turn on/off things and there's new features such as "latest blog comments".

There's a lot of other small changes and we'll post more about it later.