Black Chancery and some other fonts are missing. We have identified the problem, but some work needs to be done before they can be re-added into the system. Stay tuned here! Sun Feb 25 07:50:15 EST 2007 Added Glitter! Thu Feb 15 08:26:15 EST 2007 Now when you create an image, we give you the code so that you can add it to your blog or web page. Tue Feb 6 07:06:57 EST 2007 New engines added!! So queue times are greatly reduced. Sat Feb 3 08:52:37 EST 2007 Nothing new :-) But I hope we'll have some more stuff soon. Sat Jul 24 07:10:55 EDT 2004 Updated Help for Hotmail. Wed Jul 9 18:55:47 EDT 2003 Fixed the bullets category. Thu Jun 26 08:13:04 EDT 2003 I believe I fixed the problem where some people would get the wrong image (woo hoo!). Tue Jun 24 10:05:03 EDT 2003 Added 28 new Bullets, improved navigation. Tue Jun 24 09:25:47 EDT 2003 Added 225 new Arrows, also slightly improved navigation. Mon Jun 23 00:39:38 EDT 2003 I launched FlamingText.co.uk Tue Jun 10 21:27:20 EDT 2003 Updated Help with updated font metric info (for the upcoming addition of new fonts!). Thu May 1 12:10:54 EDT 2003 Updated the Yahoo signature and help. Thu Feb 13 22:06:26 EST 2003 plain now has transparency. Fri Jan 3 10:22:41 EST 2003 Fixed some font preview issues. Sat Dec 28 10:04:02 EST 2002 Improved membership handling. Mon Dec 16 18:30:12 EST 2002 Trying a new flash ad at: www1 Mon Dec 16 18:25:55 EST 2002 Added a webmaster tool to encode and decode URL strings Wed Nov 20 13:36:49 EST 2002 Added some Totally Cool Flash Animations which you can use to link us (if you want!) Wed Nov 20 11:05:13 EST 2002 You are now required to log in to use some of the patterns. Mon Nov 11 16:37:34 EST 2002 Added some links under occassions. Like Christmas, Thanksgiving etc. Sun Nov 3 10:54:14 EST 2002 Fixed bug in fonts, where if you clicked on the font image, it didn't change the font properly. Sun Nov 3 03:36:54 EST 2002 Updated ezboard features. Sun Oct 27 05:33:51 EST 2002 Smokey, Alien Neon and Layer Cake are now members only. Tue Sep 17 13:28:18 EDT 2002 Added Smokey and Alien Neon Tue Sep 17 02:13:46 EDT 2002 Added Layer Cake Logo to the members area. Mon Sep 16 00:00:00 EDT 2002 Flaming Text Gimp 2.0 is now available. Tue Aug 20 13:26:04 EDT 2002 Some people will notice a speed-up! I optimized some of the cache control settings on the web server, so if you use flamingtext a lot, then on repeat visits, things will run a little quicker! Sun Aug 11 09:54:04 EDT 2002 Added 26 new images to fontart in GarageSale. Sun Aug 11 07:50:49 EDT 2002 Updated CowSay and FigLet. Sun Aug 11 03:59:11 EDT 2002 Fixed the Edit Image function. (sorry I didn't know it was broken!) Sat Aug 10 19:22:23 EDT 2002 Updated SiteDesign (web hosting and web page templates) Thu Aug 1 17:18:15 EDT 2002 - fixed bug in the some fonts, where the result image was wrong. The fonts where: AllJazz, Dinos, Eagle, Energize, and Fade 2 Back. Tue Jul 30 19:29:23 EDT 2002 - fixed the save for webtv (and aol?). Tue Jul 30 14:59:33 EDT 2002 - added some more machines. Fixed the email signatures. Thu Jun 6 22:32:34 EDT 2002 _ added Banner for making large banners across multiple pages (on printer) Thu Jun 6 01:44:45 EDT 2002 - added FIGlet for some ascii logos Thu Jun 6 01:44:45 EDT 2002 - added CowSay for a bit of fun! Fri May 24 03:12:27 EDT 2002 - hope you like the new optimizations. Images are now queued up to 10 times faster! In addition we are using our new version of the image generator (the gimp), so you should see better render times. We've added about 50 new patterns, and hundreds of new gradients. Many of these will be for "members only" in the near future, so enjoy them while you can (or better still, become a member)! Fri Apr 19 01:57:54 EDT 2002 - although things might seem quiet, there are big things coming :-) Fri Apr 19 01:57:54 EDT 2002 - added some awesome buttons from FreeButtons.com Tue Feb 26 05:00:18 EST 2002 - fixed file not found bug that happened sometimes with the color picker. Thu Feb 7 09:46:24 EST 2002 - added new Members area, with three new styles: gimp, lava and watercolor. Tue Feb 5 12:48:56 EST 2002 - Added some fixes for WebTV (thanks WebGizmos), and optimized Alien Glow. Fri Feb 1 06:48:16 EST 2002 - Added save image toolbar to images for IE. Thu Jan 31 17:36:40 EST 2002 - Fixed the mouse over buttons again. Sat Jan 26 00:14:03 EST 2002 - Fixed the mouse over buttons. Mon Jan 21 07:58:32 EST 2002 - Added the new style: LCD Panel. Mon Jan 21 07:58:32 EST 2002 - Party is now a style of it's own. Mon Jan 21 04:30:08 EST 2002 - Signifigantly improved the parameter handling. Fixed the broken styles including the arrow and button styles. Mon Jan 21 04:28:44 EST 2002 - Added more options to Drop Shadow. Tue Jan 15 02:27:46 EST 2002 - Added new style: Gradient Shadow. Tue Jan 15 02:15:55 EST 2002 - Enhanced and fixed for pattern preview. Optimized logo pages, they should load faster. Fri Jan 11 10:02:04 EST 2002 - Added gradient previews. Fri Jan 11 04:15:01 EST 2002 - Added 50 new gradients. Good for styles like Glossy, and some new styles that are coming. Added Outline (and renamed the old one to outline-banner). Also renamed Outline Shadow to Pattern Shadow. Sun Jan 6 21:23:36 EST 2002 - Added 120 new patterns. Great for styles like Pattern Shadow, and Beveled, but they are available for all styles that use patterns. Fri Jan 4 06:53:15 EST 2002 - Added cool new style Pattern Shadow. Mon Dec 31 00:38:22 EST 2001 - Fixed a bunch of things in Occasions. Sat Dec 8 07:41:46 EST 2001 - Updated alien glow and alien anim with more colour options. You can now make some hideous images! Thu Dec 6 08:23:49 EST 2001 - Updated job queueing scheme. Things are much faster now. We also have a brand new machine, currently just used for rendering images. Thu Nov 8 05:03:21 EST 2001 - Made some more fixes to the Photos section, but there still seems to be some problems. Mon Nov 5 23:49:38 EST 2001 - Added Burn-in to the front page as our Featured Style. Mon Nov 5 18:22:04 EST 2001 - fixed the Photos section. (must use www1) Thu Nov 1 04:06:26 EST 2001 - fixed some HTML with the Clipart/Names. Mon Oct 29 14:43:35 EST 2001 - fixed a problem with mouse-over buttons. Sun Oct 28 12:05:31 EST 2001 - added 118 new fonts from larabie, 6 from londons letters, and 1 from Stimuleye Fonts. Sat Oct 27 17:25:32 EDT 2001 - added 9 different flash buttons from GUIStuff! Sat Oct 27 02:33:04 EDT 2001 - added the awesome new Burn-In style. Wed Jul 25 08:22:07 EDT 2001 - updated the hotmail email feature and help for the new look. Fri Jul 20 14:20:32 EDT 2001 - added new ezboard feature. Create your image, then click the ezboard link. Tue Jul 3 13:56:21 EDT 2001 - added July 4th section. Mon Jul 2 09:58:00 EDT 2001 - added new Java section, but not too much there yet. Sat Jun 30 Added a new machine with extra bandwidth (basically unlimited!) We did this last week, we hope you like the extra speed! Wed May 29 Added about 10,000 names to Clipart/First Names. Thu Mar 22 Changed Interfaces to use cooler fonts and fixed a transparency problem with FreeBits interfaces. Wed Feb 21 Added the St. Patricks Occasions section. Sun Feb 18 Added a message board to the front page. Sun Feb 18 Added the Occasions section. Tue Feb 13 Added a section for valentines day. Sun Jan 28 Added a very nice interface from GuiStuff.com to our Interfaces. Wed Jan 12 Added a new section HTML. Wed Jan 10 Dave has done it again! Check out Interfaces where we build the interface for you. Very Cool! Mon Jan 1 New logo! Updated look for the home page. Hope you like it. Tue Dec 5 Updated the front page, including amazon shopping links, and WebMaster Resources section. Sun Nov 26 Added a section on Hotmail Help to help people add signatures to their hotmail email. Sat Nov 25 Free MousePad! Just make an image at FontSize=100, and create your own Mousepad on the results page! Fri Nov 17 Changed the featured style. Actually, we have been making more changes that it seems. We added a portal site recently (the dir links on the front page), rearranged the advertising a little and added a bunch of links to the Resources page. And we added a cool icon for IE users, fixed all the known problems (webtv in particular), featured a new site, removed all the animated ads (looks nicer), changed the way the newsletter works (easier now!), added more email help, just to name a few (and not mentioning the *awesome* new stuff that is coming soon!) :-) Thu Oct 26 Added 44 cool Desktop Wallpaper images from Desktop-Fx.com! Wed Oct 25 Added 600 new buttons from Stuff.uk.com! Wed Oct 25 Carved and Crystal are back. Tue Oct 24 Added "spooky" to the halloween area on the Front Page Wed Oct 18 Added some more buttons from GifArt to the buttons area. Fri Oct 13 Changed to a new featured blood drip font on the front page (looks best on a black background), and added cool mac buttons (288 more) in the buttons area. MORE... How did we make the heading for this page? The title at the top of this page was made with style Alien Glow, font=Bodidly fontSize=70, glowColour=(51,102,255) and glow=5.