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Changes to the way HTML is generated - annamarialive

annamarialive — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:50:23 +0100

at present i am using sitebones to create my site and I have forwarded my sitebones account to my domain http://www.annamarialive.com/, it is excellent but i desperately need a site counter which I can configure to reflect the 6 million plus hits my domain as had in the past 2 years, and also I need a small counter which simply displays how many users are on my site, please please add this to your wish list, because I would fee sad to have to cancel my subscription, I am ready to pay for a whole year if I could have these counters, I am sure they are not hard to create, then I could add them to my site like any other things which can be added when in edit mode, thanks for listening, regards, anna-maria.

Changes to the way HTML is generated - Dan

Dan — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:28:21 +0100

@Justin Hey! thanks for the encouraging words. It looks like you've swapped out that coloured text for a Title Textbox and you've now got an H1 (as it's the first title). I've had a think about what you've described and I don't think it's very compatible with the way HTML works. If you marked inline text as a heading (H3 for example) then you'd end up with the text being broken apart as a heading can't appear inside a paragraph. I'd suggest marking text as bold to denote more importance, we render this as a Strong tag in the HTML. I'll have a look at the way people are using colours to denote headings and see what I can work in.

@JY Hi, doesn't sound like things seem to be working the way they should. Usually the best place for help is http://www.moonfruit.com/support.ht... but since you're here... You need to open up the Site Information panel. Make sure the Site Keyword and Site Description only contain your keywords and description. Under those boxes there's a Google logo with Edit details button next to it, click it and it asks you for your Google Web Master Id, this is the long string of text between the quotes after the word content ( e.g. <meta name="verify-v1" content="THIS IS THE BIT YOU WANT TO COPY & PASTE" /> ). Hope that helps.

@Andrew Thanks, glad you like the continued efforts on the HTML version of the site, at the moment it's more of a fallback for when Flash isn't installed/useable but as work continues it will become more of a first class offering.

Changes to the way HTML is generated - Andrew( design32)

Andrew( design32) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:40:00 +0100

i really like what moonfruit has done with Sitemaker as with having a html and flash version
of our sites this will attract more people to moonfruit which will make it more user-friendly

Changes to the way HTML is generated - JY

JY — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:44:27 +0100

Google
Firstly - let me say Im a fan of moonfruit and have been a customer from the start.
Things are improving (if a bit slowly) and I am really enjoying seeing it grow up.
But I have a gripe with meta / source code view.
When you add meta tag data (as instructed by web tools to Verify site) the data is hard to then remove. I entered a meta tag which was not correct and now i cant get rid of it so I cant verify the site.
This is an odd anomaly and makes managing meta data impossible (if we cant edit it fully then it can actually create problems).
What do you suggest - how can i reset the meta data - so that i can Verify the site etc?
Thankx

Changes to the way HTML is generated - Justin @ Qi

Justin @ Qi — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:53:54 +0000

Hi Dan

Really glad you guys are still listening to us and paying attention to SEO side of things.

You have given bolded text H3 tag labels which is great. I was wondering if you might also consider giving us the ability to change the colour of text within a text box and then to have that labelled as an H3 as well.

At present we can obviously change the font size of individual letter & words within a text box, but it is frustrating that we cannot change colours without changing the whole of the contents of the box. Having to insert and align separate text boxes over each over to achieve this effect is not very satisfactory.

EG. See the fist 3 words of the text on the homepage of one of my sites www.carvel.uk.com I have had to put a separate text box in blue [Carvel Insurance Brokers] over the main box in black. This is regular text, not a title, not bolded so will have no H reference.

To get this effect using just one text box and have it labelled as an H tag would be a HUGE improvement I am sure for many MF users.

Hey and while you are at it the ability to hover over chosen text in a text box to change its colour (especially for hyperlinked words) would also bring MF into line with basic functionality that your users might expect.

Thanks again for your goods works.

Justin