Moonfruit Lounge - Templates, templates, templates - Comments

Templates, templates, templates - Walt

Walt — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:03:28 +0100

We added 6 new templates in the last release - ones we had designed our selves. The next release (in a couple of weeks) we will be releasing some more graphic fonts and the following release, we'll be adding some new media which will include a few more templates and some additional images. As for the user-supplied templates, we have had a few submissions, most of which we have responded to and some which showed great promise. This will be, for the moment, an ongoing task.

Templates, templates, templates - Vancouver Printing Company

Vancouver Printing Company — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:41:19 +0100

I thought I saw one new template in the mix already? nebula or something. It looks very good !!
Please someone when will there be others ?

Templates, templates, templates - Commercial Printing Company

Commercial Printing Company — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:41:04 +0100

THis is going to create some great design I hope, good luck to all those who are going to jump in.

Jeff

Templates, templates, templates - joe

joe — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:15:49 +0100

Hi Scott, we'll publish them here in the next few days, thanks, Joe

Templates, templates, templates - donna

donna — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 04:47:51 +0100

Can u get more music style templates that would be great,and maybe mp3 players that u can rate the tracks,that would make my day

Templates, templates, templates - Scott

Scott — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 13:18:45 +0100

Hi Joe,

Will you publish the guidelines on the lounge or on the moonfruit site. by the way when will the guidelines be published.

Scott

Templates, templates, templates - joe

joe — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 19:25:02 +0100

Hi Scott we are indeed working on the RSS Video Feature which will be available with in the next few months.

Templates, templates, templates - Conor

Conor — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 14:10:51 +0100

Deffo be entering! Thanks for creating the competition!

PS - Just wondering, would it ever be possible to have seperate comment boxes and RSS features for the news blogs,and a feature where you can add videos to them?

Templates, templates, templates - joe

joe — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:39:42 +0100

Hi Scott, yes it will be in the guidelines, but roughly speaking, the simple answer is that you have to use SiteMaker, and only files that are in the SiteMaker media Library, as when a site is used as a template, these files will need to be available to that site, e.g. not in their uploaded space.

Now in theory if you wanted to use files that you've built, you could do that, but we'd have to add them to our media library so that there were universally available. This would mean that other people could pick them for their sites too. We also need to be 100% sure that you have the rights to use these files (e.g. you built them), and that you extend the rights to us to use them in templates.

So it's a bit more complicated (both technically and legally), but not impossibe. Thanks,

Joe

Templates, templates, templates - Scott

Scott — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:08:05 +0100

Hi Joe,
Does the templates have to be built with moonfruit tools or can we use external programs such as flash & photoshop. I reckon this will be explained in the guidelines but i have alot of templates i have designed for various clients which i hold the rights too.

Scott

Templates, templates, templates - joe

joe — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:19:43 +0100

Hi Phil, we'll only offer to buy the ones that are really good, so not all templates will be bought. We'll try to pick templates that meet a range of different design needs. If they're all the same it will be a bit boring! We'll have to see how it goes with supply and demand, but it could be something we run over a number of months to keep things fresh.

Joe

Templates, templates, templates - Phil

Phil — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:02:29 +0100

£100 is alot for a template. I'm finding it hard to believe. I'm sure alot of people will take up this offer but how can you pay them all? Is this going to be like a monthly competition thing? How does Moonfruit decide which template is better than the other? Sounds like a very good idea though... ;)

Templates, templates, templates - joe

joe — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:47:27 +0100

Hi Criptor9, I'm afraid we're not giving you money for nothing! If you build a template using SiteMaker and sell it to us, we'll give you £100 GBP ($200 USD). So you do have to work for it ;-)

Hi Scott, we're working on the guidelines now, we'll be able to get them out in the next few days. Thanks,

Joe

Templates, templates, templates - Scott

Scott — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:35:34 +0100

Hey Joe,

When do you think you will have the guidelines ready for us.

Just wondering

Scott

Templates, templates, templates - criptor9

criptor9 — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:13:29 +0100

Hang on! your giving us £100 to spend on templates! If yes, then cool cause no one ever gets anything for free!

Templates, templates, templates - Paul

Paul — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:04:47 +0100

Great idea

Templates, templates, templates - Scott

Scott — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:37:31 +0100

This sounds like an excellent idea, this is something i would do.

Scott

Templates, templates, templates - Scott Purdie

Scott Purdie — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:25:34 +0100

Hey guys, this sounds like a fantastic idea, love it, im looking forward to it already!

Templates, templates, templates - Justin @ Qi

Justin @ Qi — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:52:15 +0100

Interesting.

Whilst we are on the subject of improvements do you think you might look at these two areas :

- Giving us the option to have rounded edged on text boxes.
- Improving the forms in terms of look and feel options and very importantly introducing drop downs.

Here's hoping. Thanks
Justin