Moonfruit Lounge - New release - 15 September 2008 - Comments

New release - 15 September 2008 - Walt

Walt — Tue, 24 May 2011 18:09:37 +0100

Hi Moose, the HTML Snippet widget uses a floating layer so you have to move it out away from any other site functions including the menus as they will open beneath the widget. So, you simply need to reposition it.

Regards,

Walt

New release - 15 September 2008 - Moose

Moose — Fri, 20 May 2011 13:56:37 +0100

Hi, not sure if this is the right place to ask, but on my moonfruit created website,
www.caisbistro.com
you can see on the welcome page that i have a twitter feed. A drop-down sub menu "Our Menus", when dropped down, disappears behind the twitter feed. Can anyone out there help me fix it? Thanks very much in advance!

New release - 15 September 2008 - gyfm

gyfm — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:15:04 +0100

Keep up the good works peeps!
Sorry about the power failure... hope all is well now! As we at the radio station where scuffing our hair up over it!
Glad its sorted now.
New features are pretty cool now to.

New release - 15 September 2008 - Walt

Walt — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:05:04 +0100

Hi THT,

As you thought, .ca is not a top level domain we currently support. If you do transfer a .com then you will be able to set up email and access if using POP/3 and IMAP, so Outlook will work quite easily.

Walt

New release - 15 September 2008 - toronto home theater

toronto home theater — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:32:50 +0100

Excellent work guys. Are .ca transferable? Probably not I think you need to have an office address in canada. So if the .com is transferred than one cans et up pop mail in outlook etc, ?
thanks
Jeff

New release - 15 September 2008 - Joe

Joe — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:57:23 +0100

Hi wing, yes it has been fixed for all of you. You need to go to 'view' 'html version' to browse the html version of your site before clicking 'view source' on each page. If you are browsing the flash, the keywords will always look the same, because the actual HTML page does not refresh.

If google is showing the same data for each page, this may be because it indexed them while this error was live. But next time it reviews them it will show the correct data. I hope that helps,

Joe

New release - 15 September 2008 - wing

wing — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:36:43 +0100

sorry to spam 3 messages in one go - just want to add that when I use google web tools and look on site: mywebsite.com - it generates a link of all my google indexed sites but they all show with the same description (the site meta description) instead of their individual page descriptions.

New release - 15 September 2008 - wing

wing — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:26:44 +0100

Hi Joe,

Can you confirm that problem that Andrew had has been fixed for all of us, because when I click source to see the html code in other pages, the meta data is also showing as the site meta data....

New release - 15 September 2008 - wing

wing — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:20:58 +0100

I was wondering, is there anyway to get my blog/news page to work like this news/page.. that is have a short story and the ability for visitors to comment on it.

I know there is already a comment widget, but really looking for something exactly like what I'm posting on now.

New release - 15 September 2008 - Joe

Joe — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:15:51 +0100

Hi Andrew, you were quite right. This bug has been fixed now and the pages should be showing the the correct information. Apologies about that. Joe

New release - 15 September 2008 - Joe

Joe — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:06:34 +0100

Hi Andrew, let me take a look into that and get back to you. You have to go into HTML mode to see the data on each page, but I see what you mean. Let me find out more and I'll get back to you ASAP. Thanks, Joe

New release - 15 September 2008 - Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:35:13 +0100

Hi Joe

The seems to be a problem with the way that page meta data is used on the new release. My website has dropped right down in the google ranking since the new release was introduced.

The new moonfruit displays the SITE meta data in the HTML page that search engines index. The old version displayed the PAGE meta data, and gave much much higher page ranks.

At the moment, the page meta data you enter for each page doesn't seem to be getting used properly.

Could someone have a look at the way that page meta data is used? Moonfruit sites seem to be slipping right down the search engine page rankings because of this problem.

New release - 15 September 2008 - shiftydan

shiftydan — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:35:07 +0100

Hi, the new updates sound interesting as usual - good work. However, I asked some time ago if any future updates were going to include the ability to place an image amongst a scrolling block of text. At the moment we can create a fixed size box for text to scroll up and down but are not able to insert an image. Is there any movement on this? Is it likely to happen? Moonfruit works very well for me but this is one feature I am literally desperate for on most of my websites. I really don't want to have to bore myself to tears by brushing up on and switching back to Dreamweaver. Sitemaker is so much more fun to use. Thanks, Daniel.

New release - 15 September 2008 - Walt

Walt — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:31:15 +0100

The bug has now been fixed!

We will post a more lengthy article on YouTube, the video problem and long term solutions shortly.

Thanks

New release - 15 September 2008 - Walt

Walt — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:24:28 +0100

Thank you Bikini Joe, we are very aware of how important site features are to our customers and we do our best to ensure that they are robust. We do not for minute take any of our customers needs lightly.

As to the video player, this is only being seen for links to YouTube, not MySpace or Kewego. However YouTube does appear to be the biggest supplier of videos to our customers and therefore causing more impact.

Our video player gets a feed from YouTube which relies on their parameters and data being consistent so that we can publish what is being broadcast by them. Of late they have been making small changes on a regular basis which is breaking the feed. In some cases we have had to fix this to adjust to their new data feed while in others they have fixed the problem themselves. We are still trying to find a way to ensure that any changes at YouTube do not affect customer's videos but that fix is still proving elusive. In the past YouTube have made very few changes, so the need was not there. But of late the changes appear more regular so we will keep looking for a longer term solution.

In the meantime our developers are working on fixing this current feed problem as quickly as possible to get all (YouTube) videos working again and we will post in the Lounge and the forum as soon as it has been fixed.

Thank you for your understanding.

New release - 15 September 2008 - Bikini Joe

Bikini Joe — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:29:25 +0100

What are you guys doing...this is a big business you have hear...not the old days when you just addressed or talked to us when you felt like it or got around to it...BELEIVE US..WE MAKE MONEY ON WEBSITES...this is not a KIDS WEBSITE BUILDER ANY LONGER!!!!

New release - 15 September 2008 - Joe S.

Joe S. — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:39:09 +0100

Thank you for the update. Will you be releasing a new video player that allows for a playlist?The purpose would be to allow viewers to select one of many videos and it would play in the same video player. Please reply as soon as you can, it's becoming a pressing issue for my work. Thank you!

New release - 15 September 2008 - DazTv

DazTv — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:37:28 +0100

There seems to be big problems with MF and video you tube links not working and Flash videos uploaded to sites are not playing sound .
Could you lets us all know what you are doing to fix this

New release - 15 September 2008 - Walt

Walt — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:24:53 +0100

Hi Oriain,

Unfortunately, there is little we can do. Any media than can be viewed or listened to by a visitor provides the opportunity to be 'intercepted' by the software you mention and then offered for download.

You simply offer a short 'sample' as Amazon have done in the past. This can still be downloaded but as it is a sample and not the entire song then your catalogue isn't really compromised.

That's the best solution we can offer at the minute. We yet find a way to block this sort of intervention but it will not be any time soon.

-Walt

New release - 15 September 2008 - oriain

oriain — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:27:02 +0100

regarding downloads and security - in particular for indie bands hoping to use moonfruit as a platform to sell their own music, is there a way of keeping music which may be accessible as a sample to listen to safe from shareware harvesters such as 'Real' or Ares which often seems to be used to harvest music from sites viewed in a browser.