Moonfruit Lounge

So this is Christmas (laaa, laaa, laaa, laaa), and what have we learned (laaa, laaa, laaa, laaa), another year older (laaa, laaa, laaa, laaa), etc. In fact speaking of another year older, as 2009 approaches we'll be entering our 10th year of moonfruiting, so not bad going for the old website builder.

Anyway, you don't want to hear about that, you're interested in Santa's Goodie bag, or should I say Google bag...

What's this? Another release? Well not quite, it's an update to our previous release and a small one at that. Although it does include a nice feature for domains and a bug fix.

The key feature of this release is the addition of the preferred site address. This means that if you have one or more domain names, you can select one of these as your main address and whenever anyone types in one of the other domain names then they will redirect automatically to your preferred address. This is a very powerful feature for those wishing to make the most of marketing their site and using one particular address. You can do this by logging in, going to Admin > Site Address and then selecting your preferred address from the drop down. Once you close the panel, your site will refresh and you will have to log in again, which you will only need to do once.

What we have also released is a fix to the Video-no-audio bug. So for those of you who had videos on your site and needed to refresh the page to hear the audio, this is now fixed. If you have multiple videos on the same page you may hear a short burst of sound which is another bug we are looking at but we felt that ensuring your videos played audio was more important.

And coming soon: Google Maps widget. A simple widget to start with that will allow you to set a location, zoom level and permit toggling of basic features. We are aiming to get this out next release along with a number of other features. So we will keep you posted.

Help, it's another monster release! It's just too big; we can't keep giving away so many new features. The poor development team, they really need a holiday. But it's good news for you and our website builder! So, keep reading...

It's release time again and this one is a biggy! Lots of things we've been waiting to get out for for a very long time, with something for everyone. Get ready for some excitement, quiet in the back row please, here it comes...

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

Ho ho ho. T'was the week before Christmas and all through the office not a developer was moving, not even those usually most active. Probably tired, but that's another story.

Anyway, it's Christmas present time! That's right, SiteMaker Claus has his goody bag stuffed full of little software updates for all the good boys and girls (and even those who haven't been so good). So here's the list in full...

Updated: We've released a fix for the forum bug with membership permissions and a few other minor things. Enjoy.

It's finally here, the new forum, multiple select and a host of other goodies. Enjoy the changes and let us know if you find anything peculiar!

This month we've been laying a few foundations for new things to come in the future and tiding up a lot of old code, but we've still found the time to get a few new things out. Check out the list below.

Our latest release is now out there. Check out the additions and bug fixes in the list below. For those of you looking for the comment widget, this has been delayed to the next release, but will be out in May with some other goodies...