Moonfruit Lounge

Our scheduled down time was completed successfully at 11:20 AM BST (GMT+1) following 50 minutes of programmed maintenance work (downtime commenced at 10:30 AM BST). All systems are fully functional.

We thank you for your patience.

We were worried that if we released bug fixes yesterday, no one would believe us (being April Fool's day). So we held off a day, did some more testing and felt happier getting them out today. Some of you may think we play computer games for 3 weeks and then have a mad rush of development over the last week to get work completed. If only! We've actually been busy fixing some bugs, while work continues on some big ticket items.

Today we released these changes to correct some annoying bugs and added a useful guide for those interested in Search Engines:

Apparently, spring arrived last week, but with the Arctic weather that hit the UK over the weekend you'd be forgiven for thinking we'd returned to mid-winter. But this week does mark the arrival of our 2nd release for the year with some goodies and some bug fixes. We continue to finish and refine two larger projects - domain name registrations and a new File Manager - and these will be launched very soon. But rather than keep you waiting we wanted to give you a few new features to play with while we polish the other features and we wait for the real spring to arrive.

So what's on offer this month? You'll find details below:

New Features

• 'Viewport' added to make editing and managing files easier
• Improvements to W3C compliance and some tidy up
• HTML version of page now opens in new window
• Making Title tags more prominent in the HTML
• 'Show Homes' page and links added to moonfruit.com
• Addition of 10 new templates
• New SEO guide added to the moonfruit.com portal
• Improvements to multiple selection with changes to using the Control or Shift keys
• Ctrl key required for 'logout' from widgets when editing

Bug fixes

• Making the File Manager more context sensitive when adding images, audio and video
• Resetting the Video widget will now hide the video provider label

It's the first release of the year! Hurray! And hopefully a good one too. We've got a few big changes to site navigation, some edit improvements and some bug fixes/enhancements. Details below.

New changes due out in Feb will make navigating around your site more intuitive and allow your customers to bookmark specific pages. For more details read on.

The wait is over. We took on board the number of requests for these two tools and decided you'd waited long enough. All users can now publish sitemaps, as well as Verify their websites.

For details on how to check for the sitemap and how to add Google Verify, read on...

If you thought we'd let Joe's Taxis gather dust in West London you were wrong. Far from being abandoned to the internet ether we've kept tabs on how the 'mythical' west London taxi business was doing six months down the line, after being set up by Joe. As far as rankings go, the two domain names are doing very nicely thank you.

For an update on how Joe's London Taxis and West London Taxis have changed in their rankings with the major search engines, read on.

Do the MP3s on your site sounding like Chip and Dale (the chipmunks) are doing covers of your favourite songs? The reason is down to how you initially encoded your songs. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen.

Files encoded using 'standard' MP3 format at CONSTANT bit rate will normally play without issue, provided the sample rate is a multiple of 44.1kHz - other 'interpolating' sample rates cause Flash Player to speed up the playback.

So, how do you fix this problem? You have two choices...

IMPORTANT Update 21 Dec 07: Especially if your page lengths remain constant throughout your site in IE7: Please just go to Adobe and download the latest Flash player and this should fix get the chipmunks out of your site and give you variable page lengths back. If you downloaded the beta version (in article below) you will find a fix with instructions in comment #2 beneath this post.

We often have customers ask us why emails that are sent from forms on their site take so long to arrive or why they just don't arrive at all? Slow or lost emails isn't a common event but the cause of this problem usually is. For more details read on...

As already highlighted in our Message of the Day to all users (all site leaders will see this when logging in), our services have been taken down briefly for essential maintenance. This will be a brief period of downtime and should take no longer than 10-15 min.

The site is back up and running (9:45). If you continue to see a maintenance page then your browser will have stored a copy of that page and you will need to clear your cache (or Temporary Internet Files). Please use the Help in your web browser to find out how to clear your cache or temporary Internet files.

We thank you for your patience and understanding.