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New release - 20th July 2009 - Membership tweaks - Walt

Walt — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:05:15 +0000

Thanks Jack,

That may be something we look at later in the year. We have a very busy schedule ahead of us with eCommerce tools but your suggestion is something that we will certainly look at.

Regards

Walt

New release - 20th July 2009 - Membership tweaks - Jack

Jack — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:32:38 +0000

Moonfruit is great and I rave about it to all my friends! I have even build MF sites for a few Clients.

What I would REALLY REALLY like to be able to do is see when and how often my members log into my site - this will help me find out those who aren't logging in very often and why.

Please look into this for me :)

New release - 20th July 2009 - Membership tweaks - user

user — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:16:21 +0000

Hello!

I love that Moonfruit has a membership login. BUT, I really would like to see it evolve into more of a social network feel (if an owner desires). We don't have a great blogging platform but if that gets upgraded and then members have the option also to have their own page with blog - that would be sooooo great. What makes Moonfruit nice is the ability to customize.

Please consider this.

New release - 20th July 2009 - Membership tweaks - Ossie

Ossie — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:42:24 +0000

Hi Haych,

The HTML Snippet is available to everyone.

You can find it if you open the File Manager and click Library -> HTML Snippet and then you will see the HTML Snippet as well as selection of custom HTML Snippets for YouTube, Google Map, etc.

Unfortunately, you cannot reset a counter for just one page. Site counters show how many times your site has been visited. However, to reset this, you must open the Admin panel and click on the Statistics panel and then click on the 'Reset total visitors' button.

Hope that helps.

Ossie.

New release - 20th July 2009 - Membership tweaks - Haych

Haych — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:42:37 +0000

I cannot find the HTML widget? Is this for paying members only, as its NOT in my 'Insert area" anywhere :(( HELP....

Also i need to reset jut one pages "site counter" = HOW?

Cheers
Haych

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - lalala

lalala — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:38:28 +0000

hello, please please any chance you could tell me how to add a scrollbar to the text box???

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - petenicholls

petenicholls — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:48:00 +0000

i note the file download does not sem to work for word or pdf documents today? it does work for powerpoints though which is odd. think someone needs to look at this asap.

How to create members only/client only pages of your website - kn0x

kn0x — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:22:24 +0000

Hi there and thank you ever so much.
Am new to all that,always have been good with machines and internet but not a connaisseur though i find it clear and easy here and English is not even My Mother tongue.
You really helped me but got questions abt paying members.How do you link your site to a secure way of paying for my members?How do you set an automatic renewal of the monthly fee?Is there any way to allow members to choose their own nickname/password/chosen address?
I do need your help once again and i know i will get some answers.
Thanks again....et longue vie,smile.
kn0x

How to create members only/client only pages of your website - Lester

Lester — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:30:37 +0000

Does anyone know how to create a message board for my site using moonfruit

Thanks in advance

Lester

New release - 20th July 2009 - Membership tweaks - Walt

Walt — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:22:58 +0100

Hi Dan,

You can still use the same page/widget but modify the settings. Go to 'People' > 'Settings'.

You have the option to disable 'new members' so members can login, without you worrying about potential new members signing up (it hides the join panel from the login page). But you have to set up Site Level membership and add a new 'login/join page to your site, which is must be set as the main login option.

Or you can set membership to Pending so you can approve who becomes a member or not. But those are the options you can use.

Hope that helps.

- Walt

New release - 20th July 2009 - Membership tweaks - Dan

Dan — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:14:14 +0100

Love the new features. Any chance of a login widget without the option of creating a new user? I have a page I want only members to have access to and I don't want just anyone to be able to be a member. Thanks

New release - 20th July 2009 - Membership tweaks - Walt

Walt — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:46:33 +0100

Hi Aceface - This is an idea we have had on the back burner and no doubt one we will get around to introducing sometime soon. We just have to find the time to lift the hood and have a look at how we do this. But obviously, a good idea.

Paul - Nice idea, I'll pass that onto the dev team.

Thanks

Walt

New release - 20th July 2009 - Membership tweaks - Paul

Paul — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:18:16 +0100

I love the membership improvements, but why can we only send text emails to members? Please add the ability to send html emails, as graphical email is great for promotion. With the option to read text only if possible.

keep up the good work.

Cheers,

Paul

New release - 20th July 2009 - Membership tweaks - Aceface

Aceface — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:04:01 +0100

Hi Guys great job on the new addtions, one idea though, is there anyway you can add a loop for the video settings, I would like to add youtube video to my site but have it on a loop. this would also be good as an option for the photo slide show so you can turn it off if you wanted too.

Many thanks

John

New release - 20th July 2009 - Membership tweaks - Walt

Walt — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:45:18 +0100

Hi Graham,

We can't see any problems except for the older style form. Would you mind contacting support using our Query Form, so that we can track this case, and give us details of the site (or sites), the page the form appears on, and the details of the email that your customers are getting - esp what part of email is including a reference to moonfruit/sitemaker.

If it is the older style form, then we can fix that if it isn't then we need to find out how this is occurring.

Thanks

New release - 20th July 2009 - Membership tweaks - Walt

Walt — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:52:02 +0100

Hi Graham,

Most strange, we thought we'd fixed that. Leave it with us, we'll investigate.

Thanks

Walt

New release - 20th July 2009 - Membership tweaks - Graham

Graham — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:30:14 +0100

Hi Joe - One thing that really irritates me is that my customers find out I have built their site through Moonfruit when they receive emails generated by forms on their sites.
Then they say, "why on earth did I pay you when I could have built it myself in Moonfruit" . They are then not happy to give testimonials or referrals, which hinders growth. Is there any way you can stop recipients of form-generated emails seeing any reference to moonfruit or sitemaker? Otherwise your service is brilliant!
Cheers
Graham

New release - 20th July 2009 - Membership tweaks - Tattoo Ed

Tattoo Ed — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:50:44 +0100

I like the updates. These are most welcome. Looking forward to seeing even mroe new stuff!

New release - 20th July 2009 - Membership tweaks - Joe

Joe — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:28:24 +0100

Hi John, good point. I'll check if it's in our enhancements lists, if not I'll add it. Though I can't promise you a date for it yet. Thanks, Joe

New release - 20th July 2009 - Membership tweaks - John

John — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:29:47 +0100

Great to see that the login issue has been resolved, and how good it works too.
Now if its that simple to create a link can we please please please add links to the slideshow so a visitor can click the image and be redirected to the page in question.
Come on guys I know you can do this its surely cant be a difficult thing to add?

Thanks

John

New release - 20th July 2009 - Membership tweaks - vinge

vinge — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:23:05 +0100

@Joe - The 'turnoff facebook login" button is now appearing in my settings. Thank you.

New release - 20th July 2009 - Membership tweaks - Joe

Joe — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:29:14 +0100

@ Emily - yes that's the change we need to make to fix the HTML widget to make it work in FF and Safari. We were waiting on fixes in the browser itself, (e.g. Firefox 3.5) but this is out now so we can finish our work.

And what do you mean full HTML, do you mean set the 'view HTML' version as default?

@ Vinge if you go to the 'settings' panel in the 'people' section in the bottom right corner there is a button 'turn off facebook login to this site'. If you click on that it will be disabled. If you're not seeing that, please submit a support ticket and we'll follow it up with you.

Thanks,

Joe

New release - 20th July 2009 - Membership tweaks - Vinge

Vinge — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:51:05 +0100

So how do you "Disable Facebook Connect login"?

There's nothing on the People/Settings page that indicates that I can turn it off for my business site.

New release - 20th July 2009 - Membership tweaks - Emily (again)

Emily (again) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:38:30 +0100

Sorry, bout this. But heres another tip to make your website a little better. You should have FULL HTML view, with just the text since some people prefer to use that. Anyways, I forgot to add that the new release is AWESOME!

New release - 20th July 2009 - Membership tweaks - Emily

Emily — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:30:05 +0100

You may also want to fix the HTML widgets so they work in Windows on other browsers then Internet Explorer, I would really like it to work on safari and firefox aswell.

New release - 20th July 2009 - Membership tweaks - Alex

Alex — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:01:44 +0100

New Release is perfect. Are you guys working on Customisable welcome note, when people sign up, a note appear there but I want to put something else rather than stable one

New release - 20th July 2009 - Membership tweaks - Joe

Joe — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:36:37 +0100

@ Kokotee, we don't have a date for the ecomm yet, as there is still much it depends on. In terms of the blurry images, submit us a support ticket with the site and gallery page and we'll take a look. It's partly about the original image and our compression to thumbnails, but we can take a look and maybe tweak things.

@ Keller, I'll add the no follow link to the list (if you make a page members only, it's not rendered in the menu anyway, so not available to spiders, as they are 'guests'). And as for the other request, we might be working on it... And if you want commission, join our affiliate programme ;-)

Thanks,

Joe

New release - 20th July 2009 - Membership tweaks - Robert

Robert — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:29:08 +0100

Simply, Awesome Work guys!!! Well done

New release - 20th July 2009 - Membership tweaks - Keller

Keller — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:27:41 +0100

Hoorah! I cannot wait to get going on the HTML widget! You know, every time you guys release updates, you get requests for more - I know, I know, you give an inch and we all ask for a yard! Well here's my requests for the future please:
1 - nofollow links
2 - can we have the top menu bar in edit view a floating one so that when we're scrolled to the bottom of the page the menu is still there to hand? If that is possible that would be fantastic!
Well, keep up the good work, I have got so many of my friends hooked on Moonfruit I should get some kind of commission!!! Thanks as always!

New release - 20th July 2009 - Membership tweaks - kokotee

kokotee — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:58:47 +0100

Yes when would this ecommerce upgrade be out? And what about a drop down menu option? A Pop Up Gallery with next and previous options and less blurry images, then moonfruit would be the best.

New release - 20th July 2009 - Membership tweaks - mattk

mattk — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:13:10 +0100

Thanks for this update. While small - very helpful and necessary.

+1 also excited for Ecommerce release.

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - birdie

birdie — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:39:01 +0100

Hi, i really want to use the directory to make a members list. But one thing stopping me is in Set A Link there is a Paypal option. I dont want this to be there, is there anyway to get rid of it. Also on the Paypal it mentions sitemaker, i obviously dont want this. If these things cant be changed is there any other way to make a members list ?
Thanks

New release - 20th July 2009 - Membership tweaks - SeanM

SeanM — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:48:49 +0100

Good to see some more updates even thou your busy least you ant forgot about us.

I will be glad to see the "This widget is in beta phase" gone hate having to click on OK to use i, will also be good to see what presets you will offer for the widget aswell.

SOOOOOOOO CANT WAIT FOR THE ECOMMERCE TO COME OUT.

Nice work.

How to create members only/client only pages of your website - babington

babington — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:54:26 +0100

Has there been an answer to Stuart's question of 28th June?

I would also like to be able to hide members pages from the sitemap... keep them secret to members only...I can't explain it any better than Stuart really. Thanks

How to create members only/client only pages of your website - Walt

Walt — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:01:36 +0100

Hi Chris,

Can you give us more details on what you mean. We already offer a chat widget in our software but if you are referring to a specific product then let us know so we can better respond to your query. Although SiteMaker does not normally accept 3rd party software unless it is built as a SWF file and uploaded to the site.

Thanks

How to create members only/client only pages of your website - Chris

Chris — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:04:16 +0100

does moon fruit have any sugestions for free web chat support integration?

Most Appreciated

Chris

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Yalland

Yalland — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:17:38 +0100

Hi,

Your own website and none of the three that i have created with you are currently working (error message - internet explorer can not display this page) is there a reason for ths that you know about?

How to create members only/client only pages of your website - Graham

Graham — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:38:11 +0100

Hi Joe

Thanks for the excellent tutorial.

I want to set up a membership site, giving each member their own page to login to and edit their text but NO other features. Is this possible and, if so, how do I set this up?
Regards
Graham

How to create members only/client only pages of your website - John

John — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:20:21 +0100

Hello people,

I built a flash site before I was informed of moonfruit. As it took me so long to build, is it possible to upload it to a blank moonfruit template?

Regards
John

How to create members only/client only pages of your website - stuart

stuart — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:27:34 +0100

Whoops, I think I meant to write "SiteMaker"!

How to create members only/client only pages of your website - stuart

stuart — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:07:36 +0100

Hi,
Thanks for the great work on the members pages, which are a very significant development for us. Is there any way to make the members pages available from the menu after login WITHOUT being indexed by search engines? Whilst the menu becomes visible for those who log in (perfect), I'd like to ensure that the members contents (address directories, minutes of meetings, message boards etc) are hidden from those who just happen to be searching on google. When I've tried to make the pages non-indexed I then have to also lose the menu option which is a shame. If I've missed something really obvious, please let me know as this is my first Sitebuilder site!
Thanks, Stuart

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Walt

Walt — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:07:21 +0100

Hi Birdie,
The best way to turn a Word doc into an image is to take a Screen shot. Paste it into an image program (plenty of freebies on the web including paint.net) then save as a JPG.

Images can be uploaded through the mini-toolbar (part of the Editor) if you give a member edit rights, or you can add a form to a members page and allow them to include images if you need other information.

Paid membership is some way off. We would be more likely to focus on e-commerce first and even that is unlikely to make headlines for sometime. Sorry we can't be more specific.

Hi Martin,
Twitter and RSS are different. We embed the RSS feature into a few of our widgets but that is fairly simple on the newer widget types. We do not offer a Twitter feature though if someone has developed a HTML version that could be uploaded it might be worth testing on our HTML snippet widget (more info on this available elsewhere in the Lounge.

Hi Gary,

The Directory is a very old widget and at the time of building offered advanced features. At present though it does have a few limitations. The only suggestion I could offer is to create your own directories within your files and any files being uploaded by members would be placed in the root directory. This will not solve the tracking of images although, depending on the use of the directory, you could get members to use the advanced form where they attach images and you then have a record of who sent what image.

At present there is no fix. To my knowledge this is the first time this issue has been raised. There is no current limit on membership numbers. If you want more web space, it really just depends on what package you are on. Although we do offer some supermax packages providing more space and bandwidth (for more information please contact support).

What makes you think you would be ripped off? We don't push Reseller packs on people who do not need them. They have a specific purpose, hence the option of the supermax packages.

You could also go into your library and remove any images you don't wish to be there if you don't want them cluttering your account.

Thanks

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Birdie

Birdie — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:24:09 +0100

I keep asking this question but I am desperate for the answer. Any clue on when paid membership will be available as I can't launch my website until it is. Also can you confirm that annual (or any other interval) renewal will be included.
Sorry to keep asking, but can't wait to go live.
Thanks

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Gary

Gary — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:50:54 +0100

Hi, i've discovered a huge problem with the directories, when a member uploads images while listing, once they have uploaded there main image, it says upload success etc, but then it says you can upload another image/file etc or finish uploading. But in the directory itself you can only have one image per listing, I also have no way of tracking images in my file manager when members have uploaded them as i cant link them to any listing, members are uploading more than one image which is pointless as a second image cant be used, also its using up my web space! I've had excellent reviews on forums but i am concerned about webspace (wasted webspace) also what happens to the images that are uploaded by members when they delete there listing?

Is there a fix to these problems? as they are serious.
Is there a limit on how many members you can have?
What is the next step for gaining more webspace? not a reseller, just think my site is going to be very popular, only been on google for 3 days and the interest has been mad.
But dont want to get ripped of with reseller prices.
Also dont want to pay for webspace that isnt getting used correctly due to a fault with the directory uploading.

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Martin A

Martin A — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:09:02 +0100

Do you know if it is possible to embed a Twitter window into a page? I have set up a Twitter account and wondered if it was possible to have the updates I type displayed on the page? Is this something to do with RSS feeds ??

Thanks

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Birdie

Birdie — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:08:03 +0100

Is it possible for members to upload their own pictures on my website ?
Thanks

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Birdie

Birdie — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:06:20 +0100

I,ve made a poster document in word 2007 which i want to upload onto my website as an image so people can see it. Do you know how i turn the document into a image from word document so i can do this. At the moment when i upload the document and put it on my website it changes to a button link which when pressed opens using word. All i want is the document as an image on my website. Many thanks.

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Walt

Walt — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:11:30 +0100

Hi Birdie, without downloading and testing the software we cannot say. If you can get a demo map from them, or if you build a map on trial then you can try it and see.

Thanks for you comments Fiona, we do try to make the software as simple as possible. But we can always improve the FAQ, the instructions and the guides.

Cenya, if you wish your site, advert free just confirm and we'll change the coding for your account. Nothing will change but the adverts going.

Steve, at present the space around your site is unusable, unless you wish to widen your site and take up more screen real estate.

Thanks - Walt

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Steve

Steve — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:34:22 +0100

Thanks for removing the ads, the site does look less cluttered.
Is there any way that I can use the space vacated?

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Cenya

Cenya — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:17:04 +0100

Hey Joe, am I right to understand that if you currently have a free site that your ads aren't taken away? Because as of right now my site still has ads, and shows no difference (that I see) of membership changes or login information.

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - fiona

fiona — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:44:45 +0100

I loved the possibility of what I could do with Moonfruit but it all took me too long - my fault ,I know.

If you could make it easier for novices. That would be great. Thanks

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Birdie

Birdie — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:35:09 +0100

Can you take a look at http://www.flashimap.com/ can you confirn if i could add and use these maps on my website, are they compatible ?

How to create members only/client only pages of your website - Emre

Emre — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:35:56 +0100

Thanks, I will think about it.

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Walt

Walt — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:45:58 +0100

Hi Jeff, we weren't aware there was a problem. We've not had any mention of this in our Support system other than here. If it is still causing an issue, please contact support and give them as much detail as possible. Thanks

Joie, if you add a Pop-up Gallery widget to your page, go to the Setup tab on the editor and then use the Advanced button you will see a check box to allow "image download". This is the only widget that will permit file download and control. You could also turn the image into a link (through the Editor) to download that image file, or you could add a link under the image (say 'Download' or image_name) and link that to the file.

Walt

How to create members only/client only pages of your website - Walt

Walt — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:17:06 +0100

Hi Emre,

Having it play on another site is no guarantee it will work with SiteMaker. In our experience if the guidelines are followed the SWF will work. However, if you wish, contact support, highlight this problem and then attach the FLA and send it to us so we can inspect the file structure.

Thanks

How to create members only/client only pages of your website - Emre

Emre — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:42:58 +0100

Well there isn't any problem im sure because I have tried it with a free host http://www.webstarts.com/e-designs and it is working perfectly, when I put the flash movie (SWF) on my site there is only one scene I have looked at all the requirments and there isn't any missing , everything is fine but when i put it on it just wouldn't play.

How to create members only/client only pages of your website - Walt

Walt — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:47:15 +0100

Hi SP, this is something we are working on at this very moment. It will, when complete allow you to nominate a specific page to redirect the member to once logged in. We won't be able to release this for a few weeks but it is on it's way with a few other updates and improvements.

Michael, I'm not quite sure what you mean by integrating a database. What the membership tools allow you to do is to simply capture a member's basic data, e.g. their email address when they join. This list or data can then be downloaded in CSV format. The tools also allow you to communicate to your members (or customers if that is what they are) individually, in groups or as an entire list by email through the interface. HTH.

Emre, I'm guessing you mean your own Flash movie/file rather than site. The details on what requirements are needed for building a Flash movie are posted in our FAQ. These must be followed for a movie (SWF) within our software. Sending us the SWF probably wouldn't help - although the FLA might as it can be opened and inspected. But we cannot guarantee a response time on finding a techie to look at it as they are busy working on new features. But please do check the requirements first as you may just have overlooked on key element - and in our experience, SWFs that don't work have failed to adhere to at least one of them. Thanks

Walt

How to create members only/client only pages of your website - Emre

Emre — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:50:09 +0100

can i please have a reply?

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - joie

joie — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:31:04 +0100

hello,
i'm really impressed with the sitemaker program itself. i havnt had any problems so far, other than one thing id like to know. is there anyway i can enable the people that visit my site to save the pictures i post? thats the hole reason i even made my site.
thanks

How to create members only/client only pages of your website - Emre

Emre — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:21:19 +0100

Hi Walt,

I have created my own flash website but unfortanatley i cannot use it, it will not play how am i ment to use my own flash made project, i have exported it 2 an .swf but still it just shows one scene when there is a lot to it. I could send the .swf and you could take a close look at it. Thanks.

How to create members only/client only pages of your website - Michael

Michael — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:49:49 +0100

Hello all,

I have been really happy with my previous moonfruit website and now considering a much higher function site. How do you suggest I integrate a customer database, where I can capture email addresses for follow up communication?

How to create members only/client only pages of your website - SP

SP — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:28:56 +0100

Hi Joe,

Great job by the way. Quick question. I know you explained how to get a welcome member's page above but i am having problems setting this up. once my member logs in, they remain on the login page, i would rather they landed on a specified page, how do i get this done?

Many thanks

How to create members only/client only pages of your website - Walt

Walt — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:15:09 +0100

Hi Emre,

You can't embed PHP directly. As you would know our software is Flash, not HTML, so embedding any HTML, script or code into the Flash is impossible.

However, you are welcome to try the HTML Snippet widget which is available to upload to your site. Once set you could load an i-frame into the widget and insert your PHP script as long as the PHP source is on your own or an external server.

We do not guarantee this will work but you may wish to try it.

Details on the HTML Snippet widget:
http://www.moonfruitlounge.com/post...

Thanks

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:42:15 +0100

joe,
do you know how long the fix is going to take for the menu bar problems. My menu bar is always hiding the drop downs on the far left and its hidden

How to create members only/client only pages of your website - Emre

Emre — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:33:58 +0100

Hi Walt,

How can I add php scripting on my website because I need that for my videos.

How to create members only/client only pages of your website - Walt

Walt — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:44:45 +0100

Hi Emre,

It looks like you are on a standard package which has a limit of 250MB. You are currently using about 24MB. If you need more disc space the only option is to upgrade your package. The next package offers 500MB. If you have any further questions about this just contact support through the Query form and they can advise on what is on offer.

Andrew,

Thanks for the comments. We are constantly trying to improve the software and offer more and better services and features. So positive feedback is always a good sign we're doing something right!!!

Walt

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Walt

Walt — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:42:32 +0100

Hi Robert,

Seeing as you're on a free site package we try to get some benefit - a little advertising. If you do wish to remove this then can we suggest you consider upgrading. The Lite package is quite cheap and you do get extra disc storage for files (20MB > 50MB).

Kind regards

Walt

How to create members only/client only pages of your website - Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:57:21 +0100

You Guys Are The Best
really impressed with the membership features too

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - robertlucas

robertlucas — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:58:16 +0100

how can i remove the bar at the bottom of the page that says build a free website ? i dont want my customers to know i built it myself as it looks so good !
Had a look at some of your guys sites and u dont have the moonfruit bar at the bottom,so can somebody please tell me how to get rid of it.
Thanks
Robert

How to create members only/client only pages of your website - Emre

Emre — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:30:47 +0100

Hi joe,

I need more storage space because I am soon launching a video streaming site, is there anyting i could do for this.

How to create members only/client only pages of your website - joe

joe — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:22:35 +0100

Hi John,

You're right the old login panel used to do this, and we've got it flagged as an issue to fix in the future. In the meantime you can update their email for them in the members list by clicking the link next to their existing email. I hope that helps,

Joe

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Andrew (design32)

Andrew (design32) — Sat, 30 May 2009 12:55:34 +0100

i really like the new features that moonfruit have given to us siteleaders

How to create members only/client only pages of your website - John

John — Sat, 30 May 2009 04:57:23 +0100

Thanks Joe! - really helpful.

Nice to see you using Safari as well - guess you have a mac?

Just one question regarding this tutorial - I have had a few of my site members ask me about changing their eMail addresses once logged in. The old login (the pop up) use to let you change details such as passwords and email address. I am just wondering if we will see something similar to this when you login using the new widget.

Apart from that, brilliant tutorial.

Keep it up guys!

John

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - joe

joe — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:59:33 +0100

Hi Photo,

No we won't require membership for orders, that will be up to you to configure if you want it or not.

Re google checkout widget, if they do an HTML button generator like paypal, then you should be able to add them. Thanks,

Joe

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Photo Cushion

Photo Cushion — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:49:04 +0100

Also the forthcoming 'Pre-configured versions of HTML widget for popular services'

Can we have a 'google checkout' widget in there!

Pretty please!

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Photo Cushion

Photo Cushion — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:46:08 +0100

Hi - i see the membership is the ground work for the ecommerce sales system. Can i just ask that 'mandatory' membership will not be a part of sales process. Big turn off for customers

Thanks

Why are members good for growing my site? - Phil

Phil — Thu, 28 May 2009 02:20:50 +0100

Thanks Walt & Moonfruit!

I've just made the changes and added the new Membership widget (with Facebook) on the homepage, take a look, I hope you like it.

http://www.louise-redknapp.co.uk

Cheers once again!!
Phil

Why are members good for growing my site? - Walt

Walt — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:38:12 +0100

Hi Phil, That bug has now been sorted. One of your members had corrupted data from a long long time ago. We just fixed the data and processed the Private Membership.

Andy, can you please contact support (if you haven't done so already) through the support form and provide them with details about your account your sites and any details that you think will assist them.

Thanks

Why are members good for growing my site? - Andy

Andy — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:36:48 +0100

yipeeee there back thankyou :--)

Why are members good for growing my site? - Andy

Andy — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:16:46 +0100

hello I can not log into any of my sites as once I log in all I get is this message

unfortuntly there has been an error please refresh your browser

I can not edit my sites nothing

I have cleared my cache etc but it is still saying it ??

Please can you help thanks Andy

please help

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Walt

Walt — Tue, 26 May 2009 11:13:03 +0100

Hi Birdie, The RSS tools are in development and we'll provide more details at a later stage. As for e-commerce, no we cannot provide a date at present. We still have a lot of reviewing, planning and development to do before we can provide even a scratch in the sand.

Hi Dan, Try it now, I just used the Join/Login option on the settings page to select that page you added and Facebook appears to have processed. Can you check this out and let us know if it now works.

Walt

Why are members good for growing my site? - Walt

Walt — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:46:07 +0100

Hi Phil,

Very strange, but we see what you mean. We're on the case and have our tester now looking at what is causing this. We'll let you know as soon as we find out the problem, or fix it.....which ever comes first!

Walt

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Scott Mardon (MFServices)

Scott Mardon (MFServices) — Sun, 24 May 2009 23:01:29 +0100

@ Joe (Moonfruit),

Hi Joe, Reading what you said to bikini joe you stated membership took 5 months and you suspect ecom to take more. Isnt the ecom already started as there are example screen shots of the admin part of the store in this blog ??

Wouldnt this huge part and aspect of the new widget ecom system already half way through in development push the release date of the new ecom widget system sooner ??

Or isnt the other aspects such as payment gateways implemented in to the new systen yet ?? if you cant really state any on going projects or implementations on the blog il understand, im just trying to understand as fully as possible.

On a personal note did Ian get back to you with my problem and or a solution ??

Many thanks

Scott Mardon - www.MFServices.info

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Dan

Dan — Sun, 24 May 2009 11:02:51 +0100

Great update guys. I really appreciate these changes, if I can get them to work.

I'm trying to enable the Facebook member login, and I have enabled API thing in the 'send a message' tab.

If I try to enable 'connect your site to facebook' I get the following message;

Your site needs a login page to allow visitors to login or signup using their Facebook username and password. To create your login page go to 'pages' -> 'add new page' -> 'login/join' page and then return here to set your this new page as your login page.

I have got a login/join page! I have tried having it hidden, and visible and as the home page, but everytime I press 'fix' the same message comes up.

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Byronious

Byronious — Sat, 23 May 2009 18:37:04 +0100

I wish the Moonfruit staff would produce some informational videos showing and telling about the in's and out's of the new Moonfuit product developments :)

I really feel that Moonfruit product update Videos would better orient and teach us Moonfuiters about how to best go about using, integrating and updating our Moonfruit build sites with some or all of these new Web 2.0 features.

It's kind of like Moonfuit/Sitemaker is a full Web 2.0 technology platform but the methods used to teach the uses are simple old school text.

I very much appreciate all the new Moonfuit product developments and updates - I kind of think a learning center type environment might help us Moonfruiters move up the Web Moonfruit 2.0 learning curve both easier and faster.

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Birdie

Birdie — Sat, 23 May 2009 07:16:35 +0100

Sorry still unclear to what RSS tools actually are, can you explain please. Thats great news about e-comerce, have you any idea of when this will be available, even if its a stab in the dark. Thanks

Why are members good for growing my site? - Phil

Phil — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:33:03 +0100

Hi, I love the new features, Moonfruit.com looks slick!

I have a problem!! So, I changed to the new Private membership on Phili.co.uk, it works fine there but there is a problem at Louise-Redknapp.co.uk - it keeps saying "An error has occured, please try again" and it won't let me switch to Private Membership. Can you check this out for me?

I like the new way of Logging in, definately looks professional but the old Login Button widgets are still for the old login versions (pop up ones), are there new ones?

Please help me. Cheers,
Phil

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Emre

Emre — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:03:31 +0100

Thanks for reply Walt,

You see the code i was talking about was the Tracking Code the advertising company give I have to paste that within my site somewhere like the Google ID tool. The snippet I had before with Moonfruit Labs but because it only works on IE, I got a lot of users on Mozzila Firefox, I fink I will consider using the snippet when it is released for Firefox. Thanks for your help I will try and email them to recieve a quote.

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Walt

Walt — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:14:50 +0100

Hi Emre,

Our software doesn't provide for pop-up windows. If you wish to add one to your site you would need to go to the Forum and ask the talented Flash Builders amongst the Moonfruit community to give you a quote on building one for you.

As for HTML code for advertising, please see our previous articles about the HTML snippet widget. This may solve your problem.

Thanks

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Emre

Emre — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:56:44 +0100

Hi Walt,

I was wondering if i can produce pop up windows for instence Terms & Conditions etc. and when i want to advertise i need to paste in codes via /body in my HTML code how am i going to do that? so they can locate, I hope I told my problem clearly. Thank You.

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Walt

Walt — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:20:19 +0100

Hi Birdie,

The current RSS tools hang off a couple of the newer widgets only: Forum, Comments. We intend to widen this offering in the future. Paid membership will come with the new e-Commerce tools - our next big project. Membership was first as a platform to enable e-Commerce to be applied over the top. And payments via other services like Visa and MC will also included in this project.

HTH

Walt

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Birdie

Birdie — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:54:54 +0100

Whats Rss tools ? Also are there any plans in the near future to have a paid membership tool, and what about collecting payment by Visa and Mastercard etc instead of just Paypal.

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Walt

Walt — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:24:46 +0100

Hi Osito,

Found your ticket. We'll check this out and try to give you some feedback as quickly as we can via the ticket.

Walt

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Osito

Osito — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:08:22 +0100

Hi Walt,
Its the www.sitges4u.com site.
Flash 10
IE 7

Thanks

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Walt

Walt — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:58:11 +0100

Hi Jude,

We haven't heard of any other problems like this but if you can submit a query to Support, give us your site address and some details about the error, Support can investigate for you. Thanks

Walt

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Jude

Jude — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:49:51 +0100

Hi,

We don't seem to be able to load/ upload/ access any of our image files, including the library. Text and other objects can be inserted as usaul, but no graphics. At first we thought we were just experiencing a 'slow' day (sometimes the sites take aaaaaages to load) - but this has persisted for the last few days. Needless to say, severely limits site editing..! Has anyone else reported a similar problem?

Thanks
Jude

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Walt

Walt — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:40:14 +0100

Hi Osito,

Good news on getting your sites up and working. As for your join/login box can you give us some more details. What site you are talking about - you do appear to have a few.

We haven't heard of this with anyone else but happy to check it out. Oh and what browser and flash version are you running so we can test in that environment. Thanks.

Walt

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Osito

Osito — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:27:53 +0100

Hello Joe,
everything now working and loading fine. Thanks to the team at Moonfruit.

However...on my Join/Login box widget, there is an annoying grey line that runs down the centre of it, and some of the letters are pushed to close together?

Any thoughts?

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Walt

Walt — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:19:47 +0100

Hi Emre,

Gandi is our partner. They host the domain name/email system. We host all the SiteMaker software and all the websites.

Regards - Walt

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Emre

Emre — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:03:29 +0100

Hi Joe,

I was wondering if Moonfruit host is Gandi or isit partnership? if it is confedential you may not share this with me.

Thanks.

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - joe

joe — Wed, 20 May 2009 09:53:00 +0100

Thanks Joe. No problem. We're going as fast as we can, and hopefully we'll get there before you hit an HTML Trainwreck! Take care,

Joe

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Bikini Joe

Bikini Joe — Wed, 20 May 2009 06:05:06 +0100

Thank you JOE (without a Bikini) you must be quite a guy to respond to my Rant...if Moonfruit was not in my bones, by now I would of left or drove myself off into "HTML Trainwreck...

I understand...and I will try to understand how to combine some of my Twitter accounts to my many websites with the same Brand or Theme

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - joe

joe — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:32:03 +0100

Hi Emre,

Sorry I didn't reply to you direct, I had already answered the same question from Tony

"the HTML widget will be added shortly. It's still in Beta and won't work on Firefox until FF release a patch in June. But you can still play with it"

It should be added the file manager in the next couple of days. Thanks,

Joe

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Emre

Emre — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:21:17 +0100

Hi Joe, (Second)

I was wondering when the HTML Widget will be available because I got a load of HTML codes to enter, HTML is much more reliable than SWF because there is not a fixed ratio on most files e.g. games. I love this new improved File Manager, if you do get to improve on the membership tools, people could create their own Social Netowking :D

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - joe

joe — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:38:23 +0100

Hi Ayak,

The cusomtisation is for the design of the widget, not currently the language. However you can add any text you like onto the page itself around the widget, so this could include instructions on how to use the widget. I hope that helps,

Joe

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Ayak

Ayak — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:21:30 +0100

**SECOND POST PLS ANSWER** Hi Joe,

On the article above you mentioned that "a new login/join widget is customisable " but I could not customise the login/join widget, like "advance form widget" My site is built in turkish language and I want to customise login/join widget in my own language so user of my web site can understand what it is saying. If it is not possible, can your dev. team built a new login/join widget for me in turkish and I can Pay for this. İs this possible ?

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Osito

Osito — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:05:08 +0100

I submitted a report query first thing this morning.

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Osito

Osito — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:03:50 +0100

Well if it helps I am in Spain as possibly Grego is.

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - joe

joe — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:36:27 +0100

Hi Osito,

Don't worry, we're not trying to blame you for it. Systems info includes where you are. If all you home PCs are doing the same thing, then it may be an issue between your ISP and us, or a geographical region and us. Again not you fault, but helps us diagnose it. We're not seeing this on all sites and users, so it's not a general problem. But without further information we can't help solve it.

Does that make sense?

Joe

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - E-Designs

E-Designs — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:28:39 +0100

Hi Joe,

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Osito

Osito — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:20:21 +0100

This is NOT about our system setup! Do NOT try to push the responsibility on to us!

I have 4 PCs in the house and its the same on all of them and at the internet cafe, loading at a snails pace!

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - joe

joe — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:09:39 +0100

@ Osito and Grego - the sites are loading normally, I'm not sure what the problem is, as this is not widely reported. If you can both submit a report query (so we can capture some info about your system setup), then I'll get the team to take a look ASAP. Thanks,

Joe

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Osito

Osito — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:57:46 +0100

Managed to get my site up on Firefox, but takes 5 minutes to load! ????

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - grego

grego — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:44:04 +0100

@ Grego - there seems to be a cache problem on the account module, so if you clear your cache and reload the site, your sites will show up. They are there, I promise ;-)

joe, i don't doubt they are there, but if they can't be accessed/seen, then what's the point? cleared the cache, rebooted, different browsers, etc....still no joy.

all i see when i go to the site is the background colours, even when it says it is done loading the page.

:-/

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Osito

Osito — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:32:59 +0100

I have cleared cache, scanned, re-booted, restored...you name it....and still every Moonfruit site is just not working, even the Moonfruit home page!

Can someone please HELP!!!!

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Halo

Halo — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:16:31 +0100

Hi Joe,

Just wanted to say how impressed I am with you and the rest of the team for staying on top of everything, fixing all these issues, replying to questions, etc.

Awesome class of work!

Cheers.

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Kombosillah

Kombosillah — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:12:16 +0100

Joe,

That is fantastic news! Your product is undoubtedly excellent value for money. Keep up that great spirit.

Lamin

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - joe

joe — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:10:12 +0100

@ Bikini Joe - thanks for the comments. I'm sorry the release is disappointing for you. But we have been saying the same thing for some months now, which is that we have to redo the membership to lay the foundations for the ecommerce system. Without effective member/client management it would be too hard to manage a decent ecommerce site. So we've done that.

Re the social networking, you're right we will never be a social networking site, and nor are we trying to be one. However we do recognise that many of our customers have Facebook/Twitter accounts, etc., and the ability to publish content from their site to those channels can support marketing of their site. These tools really support site growth and site marketing, so that is why we have included them.

So now we can start to move onto the ecommerce. But to set your expectations here, it's not going to be quick. This kind of project will take many months (the membership took 5 and I suspect ecom more). I'm sorry this is no doubt disappointing. I would love to see everything come out more quickly, but we can only go as fast as we can go. As we grow we increase the size of our development team, but there are still limits. Every release has to be integrated into hundreds of thousands of live sites, so we do have to be careful and take our time.

I hope that gives you a better understanding of why we've done the things we've done. Thanks,

Joe (without a bikini)

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - joe

joe — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:02:32 +0100

@ Kombosillah - good points for 1 and 3, I've passed your comments to the team. Re 2 (editing the text) we're adding that in at the moment. We'll mop up some bugs this week and release some changes later in the week.

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - joe

joe — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:57:37 +0100

@ Tony - the HTML widget will be added shortly. It's still in Beta and won't work on Firefox until FF release a patch in June. But you can still play with it.

@ Breakthrough diva - you should be able to use the new membership features immediately, just go to the 'people' section.

@ Grego - there seems to be a cache problem on the account module, so if you clear your cache and reload the site, your sites will show up. They are there, I promise ;-)

@ Lea - I'm sorry you find our customer support frustrating. Do you have a specific issue?

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Bassmanian

Bassmanian — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:49:53 +0100

I agree with Kombosillah's comments (post 56) about password reset needing an acknowledgement screen. But there is another related problem.
My site is set so that I approve new membership requests. When a propspective member submits their information, they see no message to say that their request is pending - just a blank registration form and they are very likely to repeat the process before giving up.
This needs tidying up.
Ian

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - joe

joe — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:48:51 +0100

@ Tommy - you're right about the change to page addresses in the URLs. This is actually as a result of SEO requests from users. Previously if your page is 'photo gallery' it is called /photogallery, but after the change as you say it is /photo-gallery. This allows google to correctly identify the two words which will help the SEO. The previous version does still work, but as a permanent redirect to the new version. So google will not see this is duplicate content, but merely that the content has moved. This is a normal way of updating a website address and recommended by google. So it should be an improvement, not a damaging move.

Re the membership not loading, you may want to submit a support ticket about that as I'm not sure what would cause this. You may also want to upgrade your Flash player, as the new 'Flex' tools require 9 or higher.

HTH, Joe

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Kombosillah

Kombosillah — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:33:38 +0100

Sorry guys, for some reason, my comments are showing three times? Is there a problem?

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Kombosillah

Kombosillah — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:28:11 +0100

Hi Joe,

I have now problems with any of my sites since the upgrade and have also managed to ugrade my sites to the new membership level.

However, the following issues were highlighted when I tested the functionality of the new membership tool.

1) Password Reset - once you decided to reset a password and follow the procedure of supplying your email address and hitting the submit/send button, nothing happens (although by hitting the button, the task is actully actioned), however, there is no indication as to whether or not the form has been successfully sent. A few more clicks ends up sending numerous password reset emails! Would it not be possible to display a message such as "sent" "submitted" "success" etc.

2) Customising registration success message - There appear to be to no way of customising the message displayed once members have successfully registered. The default Moonfruit text is displayed and the message in my case has no connection to my sites.

3) Receiving emails from the site - when members are registering on the site, "receive emails from this site" box is by default left unchecked. So far, most of the people who signed up on my site forgot to tick the box eventhough they wanted to receive emails from the site. I had to delete them and ask them to re- register and check the receive email box. It may be easier to check this box by default like previously and if members do not want to receive emails from the site, then they can uncheck the box?

Apart from these issues, the new tool rocks!

Lamin

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:58:00 +0100

Hi there, I want to add a reservation booking facility to my website as I want to rent out my holiday home. I actually plan to build a dedicated website for it with moonfruit. Anyone know if it can be done or will I have the HTML issues? I dont want to pay a few hundred for software that then cant be used..

Many thanks

Sarah

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Lea

Lea — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:23:38 +0100

All these questions and never an answer.... Sorry but moonfruit needs customer support upgrades before more features....

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - grego

grego — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:22:23 +0100

can't get into my site at all, can't get into my account.

tried different browsers on 3 different computers, others all over the world had the same problem.

what's happening?!?!?

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Breakthru Diva

Breakthru Diva — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:03:48 +0100

Hi Joe,

How do I upgrade so I can start using the new membership options?

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - tony

tony — Tue, 19 May 2009 08:12:11 +0100

Hi Joe,
im loving all the new features one question i have, under (library folder) i see an (html widget (beta) folder) when i click on it shows nothing i was wondering why ? i think that html widget is a great feature ... is it working 100% now? if not when ?

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - r33

r33 — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:10:39 +0100

SORRY I fixed it ignore my last post.

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - r33

r33 — Tue, 19 May 2009 02:46:11 +0100

Is there a way to edit the URL on the invitations ? my invites are displaying my (.t83.net) domain instead of my .com

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Andy

Andy — Tue, 19 May 2009 02:35:19 +0100

Guy I also had the same problem but mine is now working what I did

clear your cache and relog in to moonfruit it should work ok then use firefox or google chrome

however saying that all my sites at the moment now showing 0 (Zero) in the mb with size lol

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Bikini Joe

Bikini Joe — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:59:12 +0100

I have over a hundred Moonfruit sites....I dont get the big deal with MEMBERSHIP log ins..most of use Twitter or Blog site for what I think you are trying to do...are you leaving the Websites and Ideal of an online store REAL SHOPPING CART HEELOO!! BEHIND. You will never compete with what is free for everyone..facebook, MySpace, Twitter etc...whats the deal...build something you can CHARGE FOR!! sorry for the Rant..I just don't get the direction of trying to catch up to the Monster, Mega Free Social sites...I do know that what you are calling "Membership" must apply and will be needed to create a profile for a Online Store..Is it just imposible to build a good FLASH BASED SHOPPING CART...perhaps

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - tommy

tommy — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:25:28 +0100

I have a few problems regarding this.

1. Most of my webpages have been renamed, for example if a page name is 'Photo Gallery' its now called 'Gallery' or 'Photo-Gallery'.

Before URL: www.mysite.com/photogallery/757564574
NOW URL: www.mysite.com/photo-gallery/757564574 or www.mysite.com/gallery/757564574

This is going to penalize my website in google search because google is going to see this as duplicate content, please get this fixed immediatley.

2. The new members area doesnt load whatsoever.

3. All websites take forever to load.

Can you please sort all this out, I know you are working hard adding widgets here and there, but those widgets you have added will not benefit my site, and you have caused more harm than good, by making my site appearing as having duplicate content when googlebot surfs my site.

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - BIKINI JOE

BIKINI JOE — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:06:45 +0100

STORE...what we needed...did we get it...dont see it...we all have Tweeter accounts etc...THIS IS A WEBSITE BUILDER..WHAT TO DO

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Ian

Ian — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:50:06 +0100

Hi Guy.. you don't need to log into moonfruits site to edit yours! simply go to:
www.yourdomain.com/login
Takes you straight to the login page! so in your case
http://ghfxmedia.co.uk/login

Should sort you out until moonfruit fix your issue! :)

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Guy Anthony Howland

Guy Anthony Howland — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:38:28 +0100

Hi Moonfruit,

I am having a similar problem, just went to my account and none of my websites are there for me to edit. I am certain they are safe, as I can still go direct to them via the web address. I am eager to get into trying out the new membership facilities.

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Ayak

Ayak — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:09:36 +0100

Hi Joe,

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Scoobypoo

Scoobypoo — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:48:23 +0100

Hi Joe,

The new permissions page is great.

Are there any plans to remove the sitemaker 4.0 branding from the edit screens? I am just starting out as a web developer and will be purchasing the reseller package and wondered if that facility was in the reseller package? As I don't want clients logging in to change text and seeing Sitemaker 4.0, as they could then google it and find Moonfruit.com.

Thanks.

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - r33

r33 — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:46:44 +0100

Bravo ! Job well done

thx moonfruit

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - joe

joe — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:28:32 +0100

@ bdesigner - yes, there is a bug with the horizontal scroll bar. A fix should be going out shortly. Thanks.

@ Ian - yes, there is a bug with the forum on mf in IE7. That will be fixed shortly too. And currently the email members is only text, so there is no way to embed an image. We've found that text only emails are less likely to be junked than full HTML emails. You could create a page with more colourful information on your site and then include a link to this in the mail. I hope that helps,

Joe

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - Ian

Ian — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:21:24 +0100

Yeh the forum on moonfruit.com has gone funny! Is there anyway on the email all members section a way to imbed a image - basically id like to send out a small flyer to my members, but it seems to be text only.. any plans on this?

New release - 18 May 2009 - Membership and more - bdesigner

bdesigner — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:16:59 +0100

Thank you for the new feature it will be usefull for many of us. Unfortunatly it seems that some of my site (especially http://www.thierrydemarquest.com/) has a problem to be displayed correctly in resolution like 1024x768 even if he has been made for best viewing in 1200 x 1440. last version of moonfruit made the browser (IE or any other one) creating a horizontal and vertical scroll bar. It seems that is desapeared on the nex version of moonfruit relase. Could you check if there is any problem with HTML and SWF capabilites (I am currently running IE 6 + Flash 10) Best regards

PS : there is also a problem on your Forum page on moonfruit.com it seems it's absolut position split it on the right side making it moving to the left part of the browser without any view it's look's asi if the origin of the sprite has been changed to the half of it.

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Ian — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:02:02 +0100

Ok cheers joe!

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joe — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:56:43 +0100

@ Drew, we'll take a look at that, but I'm not sure how quick it will be. Your best bet may be to use our beta HTML widget (labs.moonfruit.com) and use the embed code from youtube directly. I hope that helps,

Joe

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joe — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:55:01 +0100

Hi Ian,

The best thing to do is create a new page for the login widget, then hide it from the menu. You can then have small 'login' links on your page that go to this special login page. We hope to introduce other versions of this widget in the future, but for now this is the only one. I hope that helps,

Joe

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Andy2 — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:50:06 +0100

Ok, thats alright. As long as im not the only one! ha.

Thanks a lot Joe.

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Ian — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:49:35 +0100

So is there 1 type of login panel for the new site membership? As if you click the login/sign up for the existing login panel it still mentions sitebuilder.. however there is only 1 log in panel available in the libary and its massive, just like the comments box.. which is way to big and i cant fit it on my site without ruining the whole design... can we not just have a little link or something?

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drewU2 — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:49:24 +0100

Good work but ONE REQUEST still...

It cannot be that hard to allow for the YouTube links to be able to post the high definition versions of our videos. I have been a faithful paying customer for 5 years and I need HD for my wedding videography site. PLEASE!!!

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joe — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:39:10 +0100

Hi Andy,

Yes, we've seen that. It's caused by character encoding in pages names on a small number of sites. We've got a fix for it which we'll push out shortly. Your site is fine so there will be no lasting damage. Thanks,

Joe

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Andy2 — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:28:50 +0100

On one of my sites (and only this one), i get a blank white screen with this message:

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, theteam@sitemakerlive.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Which has only been shown since the update. Ahh!

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Andy — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:17:13 +0100

update managed to get my websites back I cleared my cashe thanks :--)

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Andy — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:14:57 +0100

Hello

I am unable to get any of my websites as when I log in it says I have not built any websites yet despite me having 16 or so I have tried to contact support but it only lets me sign in then keeps asking me to sign in even though Iam already signed in please can someone help me I am able to view my websites but not at the mo able to edit any of them thanks Andy

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joe — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:33:22 +0100

Hi Nick, can you gives us the URL. This doesn't sound like an error message from us. Thanks,

Joe

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TheAtlasLions — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:58:36 +0100

Hi All,

Thanks for the update, it's great. I hope we see more updates like the newsblog, directory and calender.

Cheers,
Atlas

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nick — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:57:32 +0100

i receive this message when trying to log in as a new member using the new site level membership:

Redirection limit for this URL exceeded. Unable to load the requested page. This may be caused by cookies that are blocked.

This happens with firefox, and IE8 just sits there like a stuffed bat.

PS. The tools are fantastic, can't wait to see them integtrated with the e-commerse tools

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Halo — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:49:18 +0100

Thanks for everything Joe,

Exciting times indeed...

Cheers.

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Halo — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:47:42 +0100

Maybe hooking up the forthcoming RSS Tools with an abilty to feed this:

http://twitterfeed.com/

"Provide us with the URL for your blog's RSS feed, and how often we should post on your behalf

Our servers will check your blog's feed at the specified interval and post any new items to your specified service. You just sit back and relax!"

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Jason — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:44:43 +0100

Hi Again....

Just checked the forum @ www.moonfruit.com/forum.html on 2 pcs and the forum seems to be cut in half (left alligned?) perhaps this is just me?

Thanks

Jason

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Halo — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:33:13 +0100

Hi Joe,

Thanks for the update on RRS tools, great news, I look forward to them.

Will is be possible for moonfruit to add the abitlity of feeding twitterfeeds from our website news pages? so its automated based on whatever we post our site News pages, versus individual messages manually sent out, etc.

Thanks.

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joe — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:27:56 +0100

@ Halo - we will be adding new RSS tools in the future, but they are not yet finalised for which features.

@ Ian - members uploading profile pics has been discussed but not put into development. At the moment if members join via Facebook Connect it will use their FB image when they are logged in, but we're not currently adding that to posts on forums or anything.

@ Osito - we're not getting any other reports of this. It might be worth clearing your cache and restarting the browser to see if any of that helps.

Thanks,

Joe

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joe — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:25:44 +0100

Hi Kombo,

yes this looks like a bug. We'll look into it. If you convert your site to 'private membership' then it will work. You can do this on the 'settings' tab. This error is happening while your members still become members of 'sitemaker' before joining your site. But we will fix this. Thanks for letting us know,

Joe

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osito — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:07:24 +0100

Is it me? ... Or is anyone else having problems with the speed of the Moonfruit pages loading? I can ONLY enter this Lounge..I am starting to panic!!
Help!!

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Ian — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:53:13 +0100

One thing.. is there anyway for people who become members, can actually upload a picture and have their own profile etc?

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Halo — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:37 +0100

Hi Joe,

The new features are really great!, lots of potential...

Off topic I know, but can I ask when will Moonfruit release a wiget with the ability to add RSS out going feeds from our site News pages?

Cheers.

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KomboSillah — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:47:05 +0100

Hi Joe,

Big up to all you guys at Moonfruit! The new membership tool is a fine piece of work by Moonfruit.

I have utilised the new membership widget and the one problem I am having is that the the new account creation stucks at username. It keeps saying the username chosen is already taken regardless of what username you choose.

Perhaps you could point me to the right direction as to why this is happening?

Many thanks,

Lamin

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marks97 — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:33:16 +0100

Nice one guys! I know this will please a lot of users!

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Pinnell — Mon, 18 May 2009 11:48:34 +0100

I love you Moonfruit. I've used many hosting things, and what not during my time on the web, and you are the best by far.
You're amazing =)
ian x

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joe — Mon, 18 May 2009 11:47:33 +0100

Hi Tim,

This is not currently planned, but something that I will add to the backlog. I guess it's a 'bulk create member' function. I'll mention it to the guys. Take care,

Joe

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Tim Fifield — Mon, 18 May 2009 11:38:14 +0100

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!!!!
This puts the Moonfruit solution into orbit - I am currently going where no man has gone before - congrats to the team, this is a significant upgrade and extremely well executed.
One thing Joe, will there be a way of bulk uploading a CSV to the members area. I currently have a lot of clients using iContact and the like and would like an easy way to import.
Thanks again,
Tim

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Osito — Mon, 18 May 2009 11:26:39 +0100

I noticed last night that all my Moonfruit sites were very slow to load, in fact I gave up in the end. I know there was a downtime this morning, but now they are really slow...Even the Moonfruit home page is very very slow? on all 4 of my computers! ???

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joe — Mon, 18 May 2009 11:15:58 +0100

Hi Jeff,

Your sites are fine, we promise! We've had a couple of people report what you are seeing, so we're looking into it ASAP, but it won't be a lasting problem. I would suggest clearing you cache and trying again and let us know how you get on. We're also investigating from our end. Thanks,

Joe

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JEFF — Mon, 18 May 2009 11:08:04 +0100

I cannto get into my account. It says I have no sites when I have 5. I cannot login to create submit a question

please help !!!

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joe — Mon, 18 May 2009 11:05:26 +0100

Thanks Andrew. We've been practicing! Hope you like the new features.

Joe

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joe — Mon, 18 May 2009 10:46:23 +0100

Hi Jason,

Yes, I know what you mean. I get this on my mac. We're working on the fix. In the meantime while in the people section you can change the 'view' to 75% rather than 100% and it should work. You'll have to put it back when going back to your site. I hope that helps,

Joe

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Andrew — Mon, 18 May 2009 10:41:21 +0100

You guys are incredible
how could you perform such a big upgrade like this and then to get all the sites back online again no wonder i am still with moonfruit as with twitter i have added moontweet to my followers http://twitter.com/mindwarp2

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Jason — Mon, 18 May 2009 10:41:20 +0100

Hi.....

I'm viewing the new features (great by the way!!) but there are no right scroll bars appearing on the PEOPLE > SETTING TAB...(I hope that makes sense?)

In other words I cannot see the whole of the settings screen? not sure if anyone else has the same issue.

Regards

Jas

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joe — Mon, 18 May 2009 10:31:48 +0100

Hi Sean,

I can see all of your sites and can't reproduce that problem. I suggest clearing your cache and trying again. If you are continuing to have problems, submit a query and we'll get onto it as a priority. Thanks,

Joe

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Sean — Mon, 18 May 2009 10:27:04 +0100

Hi joe abit of a problem for me, all my websites on my account have gone and i cant login to submit a query form. Well i am loged in but it says im not.

Please could you have a look see whats gone wrong.

Thanks