It’s been a long time coming, but build 40 of delicious:designer is now online!

With this version, we’ve made some major improvements to the interface of the entire site, making everything far prettier and more functional.

Improvements include:

• The ability to delete a file.
• A far more interesting and informative home and features page.
• A cleaned up “Your Design” library, far more beautiful.
• The new search bar in the header can search through either everyone’s designs, or just your own.
• And a lot more under the hood…

So, what are you waiting for? Give it a spin!

It feels like it’s been so long since we’ve released, but it’s been a fantastic month with lots of new features to share with the world. So, without further ado:

delicious:designer, build 39, released August 2, 2007.

• Dramatic social features added
  • Share your designs by sending eCards
  • Invite your friends to collaborate on your designs
  • Post your designs to many different bookmark sites like Blogmarks, del.icio.us, Digg, Google Bookmarks, Ma.gnolia, My Web 2.0, Netscape and Technorati.
  • Search through everyone’s designs
• Add meta data (tags, titles and descriptions) to each of your designs far quicker with some crazy new AJAX wizardry.
• Lots of behind-the-scenes changes and refinements that make your experience far more delicious. Just pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

And have no fear, we have lots and lots of features to roll out with the next build. So, go! Check it out!

As of right now, build 38 of our favorite online design application is online! Build 38 further improves delicious:designer with these features:

• A “saving your art” progress bar, giving you much more valuable feedback, basically letting you know that Yes, your art has been saved.
• An artboard size tool allows you to change the pixel size of your finished file.
• Change your embed preferences to allow people to either create a new design off your embedded artwork, edit and overwrite the original design, or not allow them to edit it at all. These can be set across all your designs, or on an art-by-art basis.
• You can now browse through your artwork by tags.
• We’ve improved the bitmap rendering in order to reduce jaggies on rotated images.

And many other minor interface tweaks to make your world a little more delicious.

So, what are you waiting for? Start designing!

Build 37 of the most delicious:designer around will be released by Friday, and this version has some rather impressive new features we’re really excited about.

• By popular demand, you can now set the size of your embedded artwork.
• Add a title, description and searchable tags to your artwork.
• A cleaned-up interface uses reworked tool palettes to give you improved control while sacrificing far less screen real-estate. Trust us, you’ll notice it when you see it.
• Help tips within the designer give you valuable feedback and information about selected tools and objects.
• A new Tips and Tricks section of our website contains verbose tutorials about the designer.

Also, we’re using some of Mark James’ fabulous Silk icons for many elements, so it should be a bit easier on the eyes.

Build 36 of the delicious:designer is rather special — it is to include one of the most important (and most requested) missing tools — Arrange. As of Monday, June 4, Users will be able to arrange their selection up, down, to front, or to back. Build 36 will also include some miscellaneous improvements and fixes.

Of note for the near future: we are building in support for Cut, Copy, and Paste, so look for those tools soon!

Since our release earlier this week we have been hard at work updating and advancing the delicious:designer. Build 35 of the delicious:designer 2.0 beta, to be released on Thursday May 31, comes with a few highly requested fixes and additions. These include:

• Printing! Now you can print your artwork. For the beta, printing is limited to 8.5″ x 11″.
• The artboard properly sets the document size according to the document being opened.
• You can view your designs by clicking the “My delicious…” button on the bottom — a new window will open to your delicious account.
• Better control of the bottom button bar.
• Fixed a bug in the bezier editor regarding ellipses and rectangles.
• Updated the ordering of tools in the contextual pallet.
• Update to the rotate tool GUI.
• Many other minor fixes.

Here is a list of the soon–to–come features that are in the works

• Copy & Paste
• Layer ordering
• Auto-Save
• Improved bitmap import dialog
• Tool-level tooltips

In addition, the viewer has been updated with an initial version of our embed technology. In the toolbar that appears on the bottom of the image, when you roll the mouse over it, you will see an “Embed” button. Click on it and you will see a dialog allowing you to copy the embed code to your system clipboard. Now you can embed the image anywhere you like with maximum ease.