When you look at websites, you think “it looks stunning”, “I love this!”, “this is actually really easy to use, I’ll bookmark this” or maybe you criticise.
That’s what I thought way back when in 2006. I hadn’t actually had my own website prior to this point, the only websites I saw were for the places I worked or volunteered for. Being in the media industry, and studying media at College, I thought it was high time I got myself onto the web.
With that, I cracked open my laptop, and set to work on Dreamweaver. As lovely as that was, it was a pain having to check every five minutes to see if the website code you had written corresponded to what you wanted the website to look like. I couldn’t design my own website in the end, not with Dreamweaver. So, I got on one of those template sites, downloaded my favourite, and just edited the photos and text with my images.
That was great at the time, but then I discovered Moonfruit! If only I had discovered this excellent service before!
I was quick to set up a free website, just to see how everything worked, and within a couple of weeks, I had my own .moonfruit.com website, it was one of those “I love this!” websites, visitors could visit and check out my work, and editing it was really easy, with the “what you see is what you get” focus on the editing. Pure brilliance.
Then, towards the end of 2008, I thought about setting up my own business, which of course needed its own website, and it was straight back to Moonfruit I went. Christmas Eve, I registered my domain and got started editing my website within minutes. I love all of the features and added extras, including the social features, audio players, and of course the “what you see is what you get” look.
I no longer needed to keep refreshing the site every five minutes to see if it looked how I wanted it, because I knew that wherever I was putting things on the page, that’s how they would appear to users.
As my business is expanding, so is my website, and I make use of all the available features, including the Membership feature which I’m using as a Client Login section, so my clients can catch up on information related to their order. To do this manually, for me anyway, would have taken forever!
It’s fair to say, I’ve had one or two problems, well, they’ve not really been problems, just enquiries, and I have had a brilliant response from the Moonfruit team every time I’ve emailed, they’re true to their word when they say they’ll be back in touch asap, and they’re friendly too!
I’ve made a lot of decisions in my life, and deciding to have Moonfruit as the host of my website was a brilliant one. Fantastic service, brilliant website tools, and lots of Moonfruit loveliness.
Here’s a thanks to Moonfruit, keep up the brilliant work, and I shall be recommending you to family and friends!
Ian Pinnell - http://www.pinnellproductions.co.uk/
I’ve learned a lot of important things in my 37 years on this planet.
I've been a personal trainer by trade for over 6 years now, and for my industry its vital that you have a good website to get business. In my 6 years I had a website that was made and managed by my brother. Which, in the beginning, was good as it was cheap and you had someone you could trust to manage it for you. The problem was that his work increased so that any time I wanted something done to the site it took a few weeks for it to be done, which I wasn't happy with. Around the time that I was looking for a new person to manage my site I was made redundant from the gym I was managing due to the financial climate so I decided from there to become self employed and do everything myself. One issue now was that I could not afford a web designer and my brothers work resulted in him going abroad so that was out the question too.
This week, I've been working on setting up the new 
It’s been a pretty busy week here at Moonfruit HQ. I went to the popular Geek n Rolla event run by TechCrunch Europe on Tuesday, which went ahead despite the chaos caused by the volcano, Eyjafjallajokull. It was held in the glamorous Park Plaza hotel in Waterloo and despite the air disruption, had a fantastic turnout.
The rest of my week has been spent researching new and fun ways to interact with the community. Don’t forget, if you have any ideas, I would love to hear them. Please email me with your thoughts, ideas and general feedback to social@moonfruit.com – We also have some great new features coming up in the following months, so stay tuned to the Moonfruit Lounge for the latest info!
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