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On the 5th of May we launched a bunch of new features at Minti.

Here is a list of some of the main changes…

• New homepage design.
• Popular advice makes its appearance on the homepage.
• Latest activity is expanded on the homepage.
• Need Votes is now in top navigation bar.
• You can now add links and images to your blog or friends forum posts. Example.
• Easier star voting on comments. See comments on this article.
• Far easier to upload an image as your avatar. See people’s images on the Minti homepage.
• Your avatar now appears at the top of your articles of advice. See at the top of this article as an example.
• Ability to write a personal note when inviting a friend.
• Initial phase of daily summary email completed. Members will soon be notified of advice they are watching etc.
• More sorting on advice page.
• Popular advice.
• Most recent advice.
• Advice needing votes.
• Most viewed advice.
• Visits are being tracked and displayed for profile views (example), blog post views (example), article views (example) etc.

We continue to innovate at Minti, please let us know what you think about the new changes and others you would like to see.

We have had some very nice feedback on our logo and particularly our tag-line “Powered by Parents” so it gives me great pleasure to annouce the launch of the Minti store (created with a great deal of help from Cafepress).

Here is the store website:  http://www.cafepress.com/minti 

There is a wide selection of fun items for all ages so please take a look at show your early support for Minti by telling more friends about our wonderful and growing community :)

If you are interested in finding out more about Minti, you will be pleased to hear that the 3 Co-Founders of Minti all have their own blogs.

Here they are…

• Clay Cook’s Minti blog
• Rachel Cook’s Minti blog
• Matthew Macfarlanes’ Minti blog

We have another upload planned in the next few days for Minti. This one bundles quite a lot of small improvements, and some of them are due to your feedback! :)

If you haven’t yet provided feedback on Minti, feel free to leave your feedback here by commenting on this blog or using the contact page.