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New release - 18th Dec 2008 - pick n mix stand hire

pick n mix stand hire — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:45:29 +0000

I'm using a certain ecom package at the min elsewhere its very expensive and very difficult to customize layout etc... but they convieniently have a design team on stand by for the sum of £30 per hour!!! cant wait for this please hurry moonfruit!

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Walt

Walt — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:55:32 +0000

There has in fact been plenty of peeps out of us. But just not in this article. We certainly have been busy replying in later articles, as well as the forum over the last 12 months.

We are working on it, still. More on the delays can be read elsewhere.

If you want to integrate some eCommerce tools we suggest you try our HTML Snippet widget which came out early 2009 and saw an upgrade later last year.

This will allow use of a variety of HTML snippets which you can add to your site including Google Checkout, Paypal Buttons (HTML versions), and Amazon AStore.

We provided this widget to enable customers to get eCommerce in place while we were working on our own version.

Hope that helps.

Walt

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - canvas paintings

canvas paintings — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:39:58 +0000

Sounds like there's not a peep out of moonfruit on this release, I'm begining to wonder...

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Craig

Craig — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:30:51 +0000

Hi,

Is there any news on when this will be released?

Thanks

Craig

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Craig

Craig — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:21:20 +0100

Hi,

We recently bought this package to build a webshop for ourselves, I saw this and thought I'd have to be a member to get into the ecommerce tools so paid for the Max package.

How do I view/get to the 'Sitemaker Shop Manager' part of my site?

Thanks

Craig

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - john436

john436 — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:03:25 +0000

Hi...I'm desparate for the new ecommerce release and have been stalling clients...what's the word...a week?....a month? 2months? third quarter??????

please advise

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Halo

Halo — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:07:14 +0000

Hi Walt,

How about a widget for that grants access to a (free promo) download but only via an email submission. Example - a view to using the emails for a follow up promo newsletter, etc.

This would be a great promo tool.

Best wishes.

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Q

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:00:19 +0000

Hi Guys
2 questions:
1) Will it soon be possible to ask website users for an email address prior to allowing them to download say, a free report, from our site? To encourage data collection of prospects which can be usd for email marketing campaigns.... After entering the email adress (possibly using existing forms), we would need functionality to redirect them to a 'dowload' page from the form/request page, conditional upon their having entered the required data. But at the moment we cannot redirect from the existing forms....
Makes sense?
2) Re the flash page length limitation... we love moonfruit but have a pressing need to sell a digital download via a very long 'sales letter' page/site..you know, the ones with all different font sizes and colours, and a PS and a PPS.... e.g. http://www.guide2ebooks.com/ ....Who do you recommend for building the website?
(of course we wil continue using moonfruit for all other sites :)
Thanks for your time.
Q

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - hq

hq — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:40:57 +0000

You should consider the little elves here in Xi'an for your outsourcing antics. A fully booked up army of engineers just waiting to please. And the price is right too! Forget about software as a service (saas) and start thinking about Software in Xian (SIX)

Thanks for all your great efforts guys

Cheers

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Walt

Walt — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:36:11 +0000

Hi Pijjama,

At present our software isn't customisable. As a Site Leader you can add text and title text boxes in a variety of languages, but the widgets them selves are only available in English from Moonfruit.com and French on Moonfruit.fr.

Changing the widget language would require translating the entire product and this is a mammoth undertaking even for one language, like French. It is unlikely, at present, that we would be able to offer anything as flexible as what you appear to need. But as the product develops, who knows. A few years ago we wouldn't have thought we'd be offering SiteMaker Software in French!

But thanks for your comments. It's food for thought.

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Pijjama

Pijjama — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:51:40 +0000

Hi Joe,
I Have a question.
Considering, site maker has a user from all around the world and people using it in different language.
Will be able to built mentioned widgets as customizable so people can customize headers according to their language. For exampele Can we able to customize "username" header in to our own language etc.

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Walt

Walt — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:51:44 +0000

Hi Toronto Home Theatre,

All details are included in the email. In summary, we have been running version 3 and 4 concurrently for as long as we possibly could but now the very old SiteMaker 3 legacy code is affecting how we take SiteMaker forward.

Just follow the instructions in the email and take note of the dates. This still gives you time to play around with the look and feel of any upgraded sites before committing those changes. Once the cut off date is reached you won't have any choice but to use the Version 4 tools to edit your site. That said you will have infinitely more options available to you and plenty more features.

Regards - Walt

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - toronto home theater

toronto home theater — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:56:20 +0000

Ok... I've been out on a long lunch I guess... I have a bunch of sites and read about version 3 and 4 etc... upgrading and having to re-do everything ? Where do I read about this and find out what my position is?

thanks

Jeff

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Walt

Walt — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:08:36 +0000

Hi Halo,

We don't have any intention to brand the shop. It will be like our other widgets in that they will simply do what they are intended to do without any branding.

Regards,

Walt

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - avinitlarge

avinitlarge — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 05:51:19 +0000

Wooooooooooooooooooohoooooooooo!!!!! Ohh i cant wait for this, its going to be amazing with the non branded membership! I already recommend moonfruit to everyone, and now i will have another reason to recommend it even more! awesome!!!!! :)

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Halo

Halo — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:31:04 +0000

Hi Walt,

Thank you for all the insight, look forward to seeing the new features roll out and the development progression.

Hi Joe,

Will the SiteMakerStore be Non-Branded, or at least the option of making it such, etc.

Thank you,

Darrel.

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Rick

Rick — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:55:26 +0000

Very useful - thanks!
http://www.dietwebreport.com

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Joe

Joe — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:27:51 +0000

Hi John,

The shop will work like most other stores, in that a customer can complete an order without signing up, or they can sign up if they want to have an account for future purchases.

The membership changes we are doing will allow 'site only' membership, which means users don't to have a 'sitemaker' user account. So in this sense, yes there will be non-branded sign-ups allowed.

I hope that helps,

Joe

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - John

John — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:00:36 +0000

Hi,

From what I understand a "shopper" (using the new "MF Shop") will have to sign up to purchase a item through us . If most transactions go through PayPal, do all users have to have a MF account? I know for certain that some people don't like signing up to a account purchasing something, esp if its a small item. Can we have the option of just collecting their personal details instead of making them sign up?

Also will there be branding on the Shop or User Sign ups?

Thanks
John

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Walt

Walt — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:31:35 +0000

Wow, you leave the Lounge alone for 5 minutes and everyone is posting ;-)

I'll try to answer, as best I can your queries.

Darrel, as far as Digital Downloads is concerned it's on our radar. We have to put the infrastructure in place first with membership and then the Shop. We'll get the shop out with a number of useful features and then see what can be added. So we'll take on board your request for a control centre, although no promises on that score. But digital downloads is something we do want to provide.

To figure out the daily bandwidth just take the current figure (monthly) and divide by 30 so Max which is 60GB/m would be 2GB per day (24 hours).

Hi Drew, well we aren't considering any price increases. All these release and future development is factored into current development life cycles. We are committed to keeping prices low, and yet still offering new features and tools on a regular basis.

Peter, the Calendar and News/Blog were never on offer in the Library as they were always offered as a page type. If you go to the pages menu, add a new page, you'll find Calendar and News/Blog pages in the choices.

Paul, it's hard to be specific, although we hope to have the shop out early Q2. We would love to give an exact date as in the scope of our development we may find more features we want to include for just a little more work. Or that one particular key feature takes a little longer than expected. We would rather not give a specific date and disappoint everyone. As we get closer to the time we will be able to give a more accurate estimate but at this stage it isn't feasible. I hope that makes sense.

Thanks

Walt