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New Toolbar for everyone from Feb 2010 - Joe

Joe — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:31:45 +0000

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the feedback. I'll pass it to the team. We have experimented with this, but it can be tricky, as keeping the site in the same place (centred) with the sidebar coming in and out will only be possible based on the side width and browser size. So for certain users it will always have to move. But I'll investigate further. Thanks,

Joe

New Toolbar for everyone from Feb 2010 - paulllewelyn

paulllewelyn — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:08:21 +0000

Hi Joe - The main reason I have not moved over to the new toolbar so far is it being off-centre. As you know I work full time managing my clients sites so I just can't be flicking back and forth with 'view my site'. So even if the side toolbar is out, it would be good if the site still centres itself with the space thats left.

Cheers,
Paul

New Toolbar for everyone from Feb 2010 - jhvidss

jhvidss — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:27:07 +0000

can you try and make the screen size viewing a little bit smaller on the screen when all toolbars are open cause its hard to see all of the website when designing it

New Toolbar for everyone from Feb 2010 - Rich

Rich — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:51:00 +0000

OK - now I'm very confused. I have returned to editing my site after about 6 weeks to find these changes. Or rather one change. I do not have a toolbar - sticky or otherwise anywhere on my site, hence I can do no editing other than with the floating editing box. My site takes an eternity to load and I am beginning to rue the hours I have already spent composing my site. I can simply log in and feel frustrated. I am probably being stupid and would like a push in the right direction....
Rich

New Toolbar for everyone from Feb 2010 - Walt

Walt — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:29:26 +0000

Hi Byronious,

It's unlikely that Graphic fonts will be linkable. But there is a work-around. Just drop a shape or image map over the word you want linked, make it transparent and then insert your link into the Link tab for the shape/image map.

It will certainly achieve the same thing.

Regards

Walt

New Toolbar for everyone from Feb 2010 - Byronious

Byronious — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:44:33 +0000

Ok, I answered my question - I'm using a Graphic font, which can not be hyper linked via the
text tool bar. Stardard fonts can be hyper linked.

Joe, will this limitation every be changed?

OX,

Byronious

New Toolbar for everyone from Feb 2010 - Byronious

Byronious — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:32:52 +0000

Hi Joe,

In the page master mode I'm trying to do a body text hyper link - however in the page master mode the minimal text editing tool bar is available, not the full text exiting tool that includes adding a outgoing hyperlink/email link. Is this a bug? I cant create a simple hyperlinked text in page master mode?

New Toolbar for everyone from Feb 2010 - Byronious

Byronious — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:45:48 +0000

Re: Report new tool bar bug or something ?

Description of report:
1) Home page I have menu hidden.
2) When I'm on the page master the menu shows up - I want to hide the menu because its in the way of designing my page layout.

How do i hide the menu while in page paster mode?

OXOX,
Byronious

New Toolbar for everyone from Feb 2010 - Joe

Joe — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:47:07 +0000

Hi designs2grow,

Thanks for the feedback. If you buy a reseller account from us, then the branding is removed from the editor. You can still create client logins as 'site admins' for these sites and they won't see any 'moonfruit's anywhere. I hope that helps,

Joe

New Toolbar for everyone from Feb 2010 - designs2grow

designs2grow — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:07:25 +0000

Like many others, I think the new toolbar is great! It makes finding things a singe, and allows for the genious guys at Moonfruit to further develop the software. The only issue I have with it is the name Moonfruit appeariing in the top left corner of the screen. I am just starting freelance webdesign, and want to use Moonfruit as an option for clients; I don't however want the name to be seen. Any chance it can be anonymous like the older toolbars?

New Toolbar for everyone from Feb 2010 - maxwell

maxwell — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:58:29 +0000

I think that a great resource to look at for inspiration os called RocketDock. (www.rocketdock.com) I have this installed on all five of my computers and it is pretty slick. It is a toolbar that can be adjusted to the top, bottom, left or right of your screen. Then, they have the option that it will slide away out of view until you place your mouse on the side of the screen where the toolbar is located and it will slide back out. Maybe you could incorporate something like this in the new toolbar? I know I would love something like that. But check it out for yourself! It is a free download and it is www.rocketdock.com!
THANKS!!!!!!

New Toolbar for everyone from Feb 2010 - joe

joe — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:48:32 +0000

Hi Paul,

Can you submit this as a bug to support? We can't reproduce it so would like to know more about which browser/os/flashplayer you are using. Thanks,

Joe

New Toolbar for everyone from Feb 2010 - Paul Stretton

Paul Stretton — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:58:31 +0000

Has anyone else noticed that if you do an update, click the view site and save site the page refreshes back to the edit screen and then you have to click on view site again?

New Toolbar for everyone from Feb 2010 - joe

joe — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:25:13 +0000

Hi Amoureuse,

I've switched the toolbar back to the advanced for you. Please let me know if it is working again.

Also, can you tell me what browser, operating system and Flash player you have? That would be very helpful for us to investigate what you were experiencing. Thanks,

Joe

New Toolbar for everyone from Feb 2010 - Scott

Scott — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:35:38 +0000

Hi Joe,

Maybe we can have a new collapsable menu when the editor loads up with frequently used items.

And being able to add things to the menu underneath the main icons such as drag and drop widgets to make them easier to get.

Scott

New Toolbar for everyone from Feb 2010 - amoureuse

amoureuse — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:39:48 +0000

hi joe- i need help here. i tried to use the new toolbar and when i did it, it got stuck. my whole editing page is not downloading completely. not a single button is visible. i already refreshed it a couple of times but its not working. i logout and log in as well but its all the same. what will i do? how can i switch back to the old tool bar again? please help. thanks.

New Toolbar for everyone from Feb 2010 - Kekefan

Kekefan — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:34:22 +0000

Thanks Joe, appreciate the info.

New Toolbar for everyone from Feb 2010 - joe

joe — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:01:50 +0000

Hi Kekefan,

It's a bug with Safari itself caused by shifting the focus between the Flash and HTML objects, causing the curser to be a bit disco. We have logged the bug with them, so they should fix it, but it may be a while. It won't affect your site in any other way, but I can understand it's a bit annoying (I use Safari myself).

I hope that helps,

Joe

New Toolbar for everyone from Feb 2010 - Kekefan

Kekefan — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:31:43 +0000

Joe do you think that my Safari problem can be solved? Or am I going to have to use Firefox?

New Toolbar for everyone from Feb 2010 - joe

joe — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:27:21 +0000

Hi Ian,

Thanks for your comments. We're working on changes to the New Toolbar that allows more space to be used (e.g. hide the sidebar and top icons). We had originally used more space for the interface as monitors and screen resolution are getting larger, so we thought there would be space available. However, as many have asked for us to give them options to reduce the size of the interface we are building these.

In terms of why you just can't keep the old advanced toolbar, we explained this in the original blog post. It has pretty much run out of usable space for new features, and is built using a much older version of Flash. By upgrading the whole edit environment we can create an expandable infrastructure for the future into which we can continue to add features.

We're not just trying to implement change for changes sake, so I hope that makes it a bit clearer. Thanks,

Joe