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Cool shops on Moonfruit using the HTML widget

By Joe on Tuesday, December 8 2009, 13:37 – SiteMaker features

• Amazon
• Ecommerce
• HTML
• Website builder

Of course this won’t stop us working on our own e-commerce upgrade which is due out mid next year, but it certainly gives you something to get on with.

The Strictly Swimming home page with large shop link

So how have they done this?

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Monday, November 30 2009

New Toolbar updates as requested by you 😉

By Joe on Monday, November 30 2009, 11:54 – Release notes

Following the article we published a few weeks back informing everyone that the New Toolbar would become the only Toolbar available from 1 Feb 2010. We got a lot of very good feedback from you along with suggestion about some tweaks that we could provide to make it even better. So we did them.

This was mainly around being able to hide/minimise different parts of the New Toolbar interface (e.g. sidebar/top icons) so that you had more room to play with while editing your site. So we’ve added the ability to do both of those things, which means you can now choose exactly how you want to set up the New Toolbar to so it can be viewed just the way you want it to.

So, just a quick reminder, this is what the New Toolbar looks like.

By Joe on Wednesday, November 25 2009, 09:10 – SiteMaker features

Following the successful roll out of the New Toolbar for all new customers late in October, and the positive feedback from customers using it, we are now planning to phase out the old ‘basic’ and ‘advanced’ Toolbars from 1st Feb 2010.

We wanted to give you long enough to play with the New Toolbar (if you haven’t already) as well as provide further feedback to us about what could make it better for you before this switch-over date. We have already received valuable feedback during the beta phase from you that helped us shape changes for the current release. We want to make sure we give further opportunity before the final version becomes the only version.

RESOLVED: Service Outage 24 November 22:09 GMT

By Walt on Tuesday, November 24 2009, 22:14 – Service status DETAIL: We are currently experiencing another a problem with our internet connectivity. RESPONSE: We are working with our provider to restore services as soon as possible. UPDATED 22:24: Our network provider has confirmed the problem and are working to restore service. UPDATED 22:52: Services appear to have been restored. UPDATED 11:03 30 Nov: Incident report from Telstra Added FOLLOW UP: We have received the following incident report from our upstream provider:-

#flymeto Creative website competition Winner and Top 10

By Joe on Friday, November 6 2009, 17:47 – General chat

Oooo this was a toughy. There was a flurry of entries on Friday from people who’ve clearly spent some time working on their #flymeto websites for the chance to win the last set of tickets to their dream destination. It’s been a pretty tough decision going through them all and working out who the winner is. In fact too tough. So we’ve decided to give prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places…

Winner!! – 1st prize of a $3500 holiday to Tokyo Japan from the UK!!
@SimonCwaller: Hi chaps, here is my entry for the #flymeto competition. I hope you enjoy it!

http://flymetotokyo.moonfruit.com

1st runner up – 2nd prize that we made up because it was too hard to pick. These guys will get $2000 towards their trip, which will hopefully nearly get them there 😉
@netscribe http://twitpic.com/ohp0v – @moontweet #flymeto where the cherry blossoms bloom.

http://tokyobound.moonfruit.com

2nd runner up – winner of a shiny new ipod touch
@tom_hayward: @moontweet #flymeto my updated NYC Site for the contest 🙂 thanks

http://newyorkfeeling.moonfruit.com

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Monday, November 2 2009

Moonfruit goes global – your site served from 14 locations around the world

By Joe on Monday, November 2 2009, 10:57 – Release notes

• CDN
• Website builder

Moonfruit.com and every site hosted by us are now served from 14 locations around the world.

To celebrate the launch of this new service we are offering five (5) pairs of return tickets from wherever you are in the world to any of the 14 locations that Moonfruit sites are now served from. And we’ll offset the carbon footprint of your flight so you can still look all your green friends in the eyes – or will that be green eyed friends 😉 – with a clear conscience.

To find out more read on…

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Wednesday, October 28 2009

Scheduled Mail Service Maintenance 00:00 – 06:00 GMT 28, 29 and 30 Oct 2009

By Walt on Wednesday, October 28 2009, 17:53 – Service status

• email
• mail
• maintenance

REASON: Network distribution maintenance

PLANNED DURATION: 3 days (limited to a few hours each morning)

NOTES: Our domain partner Gandi will be performing major upgrades to their network distribution infrastructure during the nights of 28 to 30 October. During this time email services will experience a number of intermittent disruptions in connectivity beginning at 12:00am (GMT) with maintenance activities finishing by 6:00am (GMT) each day. We will endeavour to minimise impact to services where possible, but given the scale of the upgrades being performed, most services will encounter at least some disruption. No mail will be lost but access may be restricted and delivery of mail delayed.

We apologise in advance for any inconvenience this work may cause.

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Monday, October 26 2009

New Release – 27 October 2009 – Finalised New Toolbar

By Joe on Monday, October 26 2009, 17:48 – Release notes

Thank you to all of those who provided us with feedback over the past few weeks while the Toolbar has been running in Beta. This has been very helpful to us in ironing out some of those strange little bugs. We’re very pleased to announce that the new (and improved) Toolbar is now live! Here’s a quick grab of what the final version looks like.

New Moonfruit Toolbar

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Our partnership with MOO and free MOO card giveaway!

By Wendy on Thursday, October 15 2009, 17:53 – General chat

We’ve partnered with MOO, who love to print! You can use your own images, logos and content to customise your own business cards and personal products. Much like Moonfruit, MOO provides easy to use edit tools to customise your business cards and they also love good design.

We came across MOO when we needed to print our own business cards and we loved them so much we thought your might like to use them too for your projects and business ventures. We know many of you have fabulous images, designs and logos which you already use for your Moonfruit sites. MOO also think their customers might like to build Moonfruit sites to promote their projects, businesses and communities.

So to kick off the partnership we’ve been promoting some unique offers to our customers.

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RESOLVED: Service Distruption 15:30 – 16:20 BST (GMT +1) 15 Oct 2009

By Walt on Thursday, October 15 2009, 15:39 – Service status

DETAIL: We are currently experiencing some unexpected problems with our service delivery.

RESPONSE: We are investigating this and expect to have this resolved promptly.

DURATION: We will provide an update on the cause and resolution once completed.

UPDATE: 16:20 BST (GMT +1) 15 Oct 2009

We were performing a routine maintenance operation to expand disk space. This normally requires no downtime, however the operation hung causing a cascading problem which required us to restart the entire service.

Because the restart was unscheduled we took great care to minimise risk. This means that restarting our entire service takes time.

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Tuesday, September 29 2009 New release – 29 September 2009 – New interface, HTML widget, site copy and more…

By Joe on Tuesday, September 29 2009, 10:00 – Release notes

• HTML
• Moonfruit
• Release
• Website builder

Yeah, it’s release time again! Believe it or not we get just as excited as you do at these times. The months of hard work all come together and we get to push new things out to the Moonfruit-osphere. And this one is a biggy too.

So first things first, the new interface. For those of you who didn’t see our sneak preview, this is what it looks like.

General edit functions (click to enlarge image).

We’re seeing the largest overhaul to the edit environment in the last 5 years as we drag SiteMaker kicking and screaming into the present and pave the way for the future. The long awaited HTML widget is now out of beta, works in all browsers (ooooohh), and opens up libraries of additional content. And you can now copy an entire site too…

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Tuesday, September 22 2009

Sneak Preview: Radical Overhaul of Moonfruit Sitemaker Edit Environment

By Wendy on Tuesday, September 22 2009, 11:24 – SiteMaker features

POSTPONED: Scheduled Downtime 06:00 – 08:00 BST (GMT +1) 25th Sep 2009

By Walt on Tuesday, September 22 2009, 11:20 – Service status

REASON: Data cleansing and archiving

PLANNED DURATION: 2 hours

NOTES: To improve the efficiency of our database, we plan to archive legacy data. This operation needs to be done off-line, that is all websites must be taken off-line for this period. Customers will be shown a page advising them that their site is unavailable and will be back up shortly.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

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Wednesday, September 16 2009 Moonfruit twitter campaign wrap up – creative responses under reported

By Joe on Wednesday, September 16 2009, 11:02 – Moonfruit in the news

Before we launch into a new season of exciting product releases (really watch this space for a radical overhaul!) and new fun and games. We thought we’d reflect on what a crazy summer it’s been. The Twitter campaign we ran in early July sparked a huge amount of interest across the globe with over 200 blogs and articles written in everything from the Wall Street Journal, FT and Forbes magazine in the traditional press through to Techcrunch and Mashable leading the way online.

It has also been interesting to see the varied responses from different parts of the world. For example the US press were much more positive about the campaign, while the UK press focused more on the controversy and ethics of the campaign.

But what was interesting was that few articles really picked up on all the creative entries and enormous amount of time, love, humor and fun participants generated during the campaign. This was obvious in a conference we spoke at last week about marketing on Twitter where many of the experts and delegates told us there were totally unaware of the creative part of the campaign and felt it had been under reported.

For us this was the most exciting and rewarding part of the campaign, where we got to really engage with the Twitterverse and see your playfulness and good humour come out in bizarre and wonderful interpretations of our brand. With over 500,000 tweets, 3000+ images, 500+ videos, and many songs, poems and even crochets birds created by you during these 7 days, this really made the campaign what it was.

We are grateful to all participants, new subscriptions increased by 20% during the summer so we must be doing something you like! We will continue to ensure we keep innovating, provide good service and add a little humour and creativity to everything we do.

So for all of those that missed it, we thought we’d summarise these wonderful contributions one more time. This is by no means exhaustive, but gives a good taste of what was done.

CREATIVE COMPETITION PICTURES

Just a few (hundred) of the many awesome pictures you guys sent in, THANKYOU!

www.flickr.com/photos/40593155@N08/sets/72157621912820609

OUR FAVOURITE 30 CREATIVE WEBSITES

www.flickr.com/photos/40593155@N08/sets/72157621596748144

YOUTUBE VIDEOS

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=moonfruit

So there you have it. We’re still beavering away on new product features and a radical overhual of the Moonfruit tools, to be released next month. And maybe, just maybe we may call on you again with some Twitter based madness…

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