Moonfruit Lounge - Sneak Preview: Radical Overhaul of Moonfruit Sitemaker Edit Environment - Comments

Sneak Preview: Radical Overhaul of Moonfruit Sitemaker Edit Environment - Tim

Tim — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:48:55 +0000

Hi Moonfruit
I am very impressed by the new Sitemaker Edit Environment, well done.

As a photographer I am very interested in the image tool palette. Have you any further updates or new widgets in the pipeline for us snappers.What would be rather good is if you could position where the pop-up appeared other than in the middle of the picture grid. I have worked out a way around this but it is rather tedious and takes a bit longer to load.

Many Thanks Tim

Sneak Preview: Radical Overhaul of Moonfruit Sitemaker Edit Environment - Ben

Ben — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:12:04 +0000

Maybe you could re direct me to the support as I cant find it, and its been over a week and no reply

Thanks

Sneak Preview: Radical Overhaul of Moonfruit Sitemaker Edit Environment - cody

cody — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:41:50 +0000

how do i change back to the old one this one is to weird and gets in the way.

Sneak Preview: Radical Overhaul of Moonfruit Sitemaker Edit Environment - Ben

Ben — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:47:16 +0000

Hello, I do like the new UI however I have stumbled across a little problem,
When ever I try to Press Upload or Files or Save nothing happens, I have all the updated software. I tryed using Upload File in the Editor Arrow but it clicks (OnClick Image works, but seems like the command is blank) nothing else happens it doesnt even focus on task. Previously the Help button didnt work, but it does now.

Since these issues are recurring I have to say the old Interface is much better, and seems like you had more options.

Thanks

Sneak Preview: Radical Overhaul of Moonfruit Sitemaker Edit Environment - Walt

Walt — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:05:16 +0100

Hi Damen,

Could you please use the Forum for this query. This article is about the new release so we'd rather answer your query where it's more relevant. You will also find that the Forum is a great place for advice, tips and tricks from the Moonfruit Community as well as the Support team (otherwise known as Comdot).

Thanks

Sneak Preview: Radical Overhaul of Moonfruit Sitemaker Edit Environment - damen austin

damen austin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:31:59 +0100

hey guys. Im building a band website and im trying to figure out how to make it to where when you click on the pictures of my band mates in the about us section another page or screen or something comes up where you can read about us. I nknow you have something like this with the pop up gallery but the text box is not really bug enough for what im trying to do... HELP?

Sneak Preview: Radical Overhaul of Moonfruit Sitemaker Edit Environment - Walt

Walt — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:06:57 +0100

Hi Chris, all the key functions will remain and we've added a few more to improve the overall editing of the software. And thanks for the feedback.

Hi Mitch, well don't hold back. Seriously, we've had a lot of very positive feedback about our changes and all we can ask is to try it when it goes live and give us some specific, detailed feedback as to what doesn't work for you. The advanced view will continue to be present, in fact for the short-term when you log in you have to chose the new Beta view.

Hi Locke, we haven't tried the snippets on the site you mention (we get swamped with sites/snippets/recommendations) but I can say our new widget will be a lot more robust and overcome some of our earlier limitations. Once it goes live, give it a try, and then give us some feedback.

Thanks

Walt

Sneak Preview: Radical Overhaul of Moonfruit Sitemaker Edit Environment - Locke

Locke — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:19:40 +0100

Will the HTML widget work with the stuff from http://sproutinc.com ?
I have tried it in the BETA version of the widget and I can get it to work, but you have to go through a lot of permissions settings. It needs to be seamless.

On the positive side, you guys have a great product! And it looks like it is only getting better.

Sneak Preview: Radical Overhaul of Moonfruit Sitemaker Edit Environment - Mitch

Mitch — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:42:33 +0100

THAT LOOKS UGLY .... I dont like it - will you still have the advance view still?

Sneak Preview: Radical Overhaul of Moonfruit Sitemaker Edit Environment - christian

christian — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:21:42 +0100

Dear Joe and Moonfruit,

If you guys want to improve the editor design that´s great, but please don´t take or change any actual fuctions out, the editor as it is right now is so great...and with the future widget and ecommerce functions moonfruit website maker will be the best online aplication to make websites in the world, thanks a lot in advance.

Chris.

Sneak Preview: Radical Overhaul of Moonfruit Sitemaker Edit Environment - joe

joe — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:34:47 +0100

Hi SteveB,

I hadn't heard that bug report before but I'll get the team to check it out. Re the spell check, it does have to be native HTML to use the FF spell checker, but it's on our list to get this sorted in the future. HTH,

Joe

Sneak Preview: Radical Overhaul of Moonfruit Sitemaker Edit Environment - SteveB

SteveB — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:37:34 +0100

The screenshots look like a vast improvement on the current environment, so I'm looking forward to seeing it for real!

One of the most annoying things about editing text boxes at the moment is the bizarre behaviour of the arrow keys for moving the cursor. One arrow key press sometimes moves one character, sometimes more, and your guess is as good as mine as to how many letters will be deleted when you press the delete key! Will the re-vamp sort this problem out? (I use FF3.5 if it's a browser specific thing) And also, is it possible for text boxes to link to FF's spellchecker, or does it have to be an HTML environment for that?

Sneak Preview: Radical Overhaul of Moonfruit Sitemaker Edit Environment - joe

joe — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:29:04 +0100

Hi Ian,

I'm afraid it won't work offline, so you still will need to be connected. Sorry about that!

Joe

Sneak Preview: Radical Overhaul of Moonfruit Sitemaker Edit Environment - Ian

Ian — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:18:34 +0100

well the eagle eyed is looking, and it looks like that is an offline builder!! so im guessing we can build the website offline, and then upload it when we wish.... very nice!!

Sneak Preview: Radical Overhaul of Moonfruit Sitemaker Edit Environment - joe

joe — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:06:12 +0100

Hi Matt,

No it doesn't. But that's a good piece of feedback. I'll talk to the team about it. Thanks,

Joe

Sneak Preview: Radical Overhaul of Moonfruit Sitemaker Edit Environment - MattK

MattK — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:01:08 +0100

These look absolutely fantastic. Does it incorporate an easy way to change sites that you are editing (ie. a dropdown list) whereby you can change sites on the fly from within the editor?

Sneak Preview: Radical Overhaul of Moonfruit Sitemaker Edit Environment - Walt

Walt — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:29:28 +0100

Hi Justin,

Our current testing indicates that they should work. But there are no guarantees that any updates from Google or Mozilla won't cause further issues. Warnings aside, we are miles ahead of where we were a few weeks (months!) ago so it's all looking very, very positive.

Walt

Sneak Preview: Radical Overhaul of Moonfruit Sitemaker Edit Environment - Justin @ Qi

Justin @ Qi — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:06:44 +0100

And will the new improved HTML Widget work across all of the major browsers including Chrome & Firefox?

Sneak Preview: Radical Overhaul of Moonfruit Sitemaker Edit Environment - Walt

Walt — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:19:19 +0100

Hi Mikey,

As far as pricing goes for e-Commerce tools, it is more than likely that users on higher-end packages (including resellers) will have these included in their subscription. We may offer this across the board but it's too early to say at present.

Cheers Jason,

And yes, it certainly will accommodate more robust JS, external files and scripts. We can't guarantee everything will work (there is way too much 3rd party stuff out there for us to test) but everything we've thrown at it (the new version) so far has worked!

Walt

Sneak Preview: Radical Overhaul of Moonfruit Sitemaker Edit Environment - Jason

Jason — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:12:52 +0100

Crew,

It's all v exciting and can't come soon enough! Will the new features allow for more robust javascript embeds - calls to external scripts/widgets - or am I just dreaming?