It has been a long time coming. Thank you to everybody for your patience and wonderful feedback, it has been greatly appreciated. We have completely rebuilt the Lilypie platform, and in the process added loads of new features, some to make the site easier to use and some to make it easier for me to add new tickers and new images. This is very exciting for me, and I have lots of new tickers planned for the coming months.

Some of the new features include much higher image quality for the tickers, and the ability to choose background colours for your tickers so that the tickers work on light and dark backgrounds. We have also added how-to notes displayed below the preview image when you create a ticker, and re-organised the Help section to make it easier to quickly find the answers you need.

Please be aware that although the tickers from the old site will keep working, you will no longer be able to edit tickers created on the old site. If you have a 'My Lilypie' account you will still be able to view, delete or get the code for your old tickers by logging in to your My Lilypie account and clicking on the Show Lilypie classic tickers link near the top right.

I hope you enjoy the new look Lilypie, and if you have any further suggestions or queries please do contact me.

Thanks so much to everybody that took the time to provide feedback on the site. It was greatly appreciated, and so much overwhelmingly positive feedback certainly helps to keep me inspired. Here is what we decided; once the new site goes up:

• All previously created tickers will keep working. (This was always going to be the case).
• People with My Lilypie accounts will still be able to view, delete and get the code for tickers created on the old site.
• People with tickers created on the old site will no longer be able to edit the tickers created on the old site.

Of course, for tickers created on the new site people with 'My Lilypie' accounts will be able to edit and create tickers just as before.

For those who haven't seen it, if you want to get an idea of what the new Lilypie site will look like, we have created another site using the new platform called PitaPata. It has pet tickers for cats, dogs and horses.

We are almost ready to cross-over to the new site. I have finished re-doing all the backgrounds for the new platform, and about a quarter of the sliders are done. Most of the code for the site is done.

We have been debating whether to have a transition period where you can still edit tickers created with the current version of the site, after the new site is up. It would be much simpler and much quicker to just close the old site, the old tickers will keep working, and you will still be able to get the code for your old tickers, you just won't be able to edit them any more.

I'm pretty keen to get the new site up ASAP, but I'm happy to get feedback about what people would prefer.

How important do you think it is to be able to continue to edit tickers created on the old site?

You can let me know what you think through the contact page.

Initially, only the English language version of Lilypie will change, the other languages will remain as they are.

For those who haven't seen it, if you want to get an idea of what the new Lilypie site will look like, we have created another site using the new platform here called PitaPata. It has pet tickers for cats, dogs and horses.