Moonfruit Lounge - Competition

Final creative prize for a Macbook Pro

Joe — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:46:00 +0100

Thank you all for making this competition so special. The creative entries have really blown us away and we'll be continuing to pick through them all, post up the best and create a gallery to pay our respects for all those who have entered. (And maybe a few discretionary prizes too ending Friday 10th July 3pm BST).

But we thought we'd end this crazy Twitter promotion with one more Macbook Pro prize. And this will go to the creator of the best website on Moonfruit.com. Anyone can enter from new or old customers, friends or foes, and you certainly don't have to enter if you don't want to ;-).

The website contest will run until 17th July (next Friday 3pm BST) at which point we'll pick and announce the winner.

Judging a website is going to be tricky, so when you enter your website we want you to tell us why it's special or innovative and why you think it should win. All entries should be as comments on this blog and we'll pick the winner from there. We'll pick the site that is most true to its stated objective and inspires us as a great example of what a website can do. Build it about something you're passionate about and are interested in.

Thanks again for all your support and may the Fruit be with you. Always.

Rules

Create a website on www.moonfruit.com
Post it on this blog with your reasons for why it should be picked
One website entry per person (and one post please!)
Winner will be posted to this blog on 17th July at 3pm BST (GMT+1)
Good luck!

Celebrate 10 years of Moonfruit and win a MacBook Pro

Joe — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:47:00 +0100

To celebrate Moonfruit's 10th birthday we are giving away 10 new Macbook Pro's, one each day for 10 days! If you've never seen one of these in real life, they are just as svelte and beautifully crafted as they look in the pictures, we can't keep our hands off them! (I'm using on now, but not one of the competition ones obviously ;-) )

Check the full details of the competition at http://www.moonfruit.com/macbook-pro.html and follow us @moontweet to find out who the winners are each day.

We wouldn't be here today without all you wonderful people building websites with us and allowing us to support you in your online adventures. So a special thanks to the 2m+ of you who've built a site with us!

Happy tweeting!

Help us reach 2,000,000 websites, have a Xmas bonus

Joe — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:53:00 +0000

Who'd have thought it but we're rapidly approaching 2,000,000 websites built using SiteMaker. We are of course very proud of this achievement and it goes to show how many people have been touched by Moonfruit SiteMaker and how many customers have been able to create a website beyond their expectations using our award winning website builder. But enough about us, this is about you. You're the ones building the sites, so we wanted to give something back, like a Xmas bonus...

We've decided to run a competition in the run up to reaching 2,000,000 websites with a prize of £1000 cash (that's roughly $1,500 or €1,250 in your money!). We thought this might be helpful during these crunchy times to pay for or pay off your Xmas shopping (depending on when we pass the 2,000,000 site mark).

The rules are simple: anyone who builds a website on Moonfruit.com between 1 Dec 2008 and the day that we hit the magic 2,000,000 number will be entered into the prize draw. We've had roughly 1.97m websites built as of today, so that's roughly 30,000 people who will be in the draw. We will then select the winner randomly from this group of people once we hit 2,000,000 websites.

But hold your horses, not just any website will do, it has to be a 'real' website. So don't just start creating new trial sites and hope to hit that magic number. If we find a 'welcome to your website' site, you won't win it. By 'real' we mean a website that's actually being created for a specific purpose or is being used for something, and not just created in the hope of winning this competition. It must have real content and a real purpose. And you can't just duplicate an existing site many times over. We'll check!

So there you go. Now's the time to tell your friends to start building websites. Or build that site you've always wanted to build. Or both.

Good luck to you all and be careful you don't spend the money before you get it ;-)