One new thing that we forgot to announce (wow, our mistake!) along with the other new features was actually something pretty big.

Multiply has new themes!

Not only did we add a handful of user-created themes, made by wonderful users from the wonderful CustomizedThemes group, to our stable of official themes, but we even added a few of our own originals.

Here are a few of the new themes:

Japanese Minimalist	MOD
Bacchus	Bloody Romance

To apply one of these (or any other official theme), just click Customize My Site on your homepage, followed by Choose a Theme.

Have you already been using any of the new themes? Which among them is your favorite?

While the upcoming features we've recently shown you are definitely still coming soon (and of course, now even sooner than ever!), we have a couple more changes we'd like to show you.

The first is a change to the layout of the tabs that you'll find across the top of any page on Multiply. The current "My Multiply" message board page becomes Inbox, and the "My Network" page will be broken up into dedicated Contacts and Groups pages to make things a little clearer.

Secondly, we'll be introducing a new default theme for accounts on Multiply. New users will automatically get the new theme, though naturally, you don't have to be a new user to use it. Anyone can choose it, just like any other theme!

Finally, we thought it would be a good idea to announce these upcoming changes ahead of time, to let users who extensively customize their Multiply site know that these changes have the potential to affect their customizations. We've been testing various customized themes with the new version of the site to try and ensure that all of the changes go over as smoothly as possible, but there's always a possibility that something minor may slip through.

So if something looks a little odd with your customized site once the changes go live, don't panic! We'll be keeping an eye on the appropriate customization groups to catch any major issues that users report.

Not long ago, we introduced our new HTML check feature, and Multiply users everywhere pretty much all rejoiced at once. They partied and danced in the streets, celebrating their newfound freedom from those eentsy-weentsy little HTML mistakes that could potentially cause page layout headaches, and on the whole, generally ruin one's day.

With this in mind, we wanted to let you know that there's currently an issue with the way this feature works in Internet Explorer browsers. If you had any invalid (or not-quite-perfect) HTML in one of your layout boxes before we introduced this feature, you may be having some trouble editing your site using IE, now.

So what's a Multiply user to do, short of contacting customer service for help?

There are two options:

1. Have patience. We're working on a fix for this issue. We'll let you know when it's ready.
   


2. Don't have patience? There's also an easy, do-it-yourself solution available to you now. If you have the Firefox browser on your computer, simply open up the site in Firefox, edit the appropriate layout box, and save it. The HTML will be auto-corrected, making editing possible once again in any browser!

Yep, it's as simple as that.

Update: We've come up with a fix for this issue. The next time you click the "Customize Site" link to edit your homepage, you'll see a brief "Repairing HTML" message. Please allow this operation to complete; it should only take a few seconds. This will automatically fix any broken HTML that would otherwise prevent you from being able to edit your page.

Thanks for your patience, and enjoy!