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HTML widget - what have you found? - Gary

Gary — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:58:35 +0100

Hi Rachypoo1,

I have replied to your Forum thread about this.

HTH,

Gary

HTML widget - what have you found? - Rachypoo1

Rachypoo1 — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 15:01:17 +0100

Hi, It has come to our attention that the HTML snippets and widgets used in our website do NOT stay still when viewed on other web browsers ie: Internet explorer. I use firefox and all is where it is supposed to be.
This is causing us real problems and i would love a solution to solve this problem, We even have customers calling us to inform us that they cant read information on the website as out HTML widget is in the middle - to the side - all over the place... help

HTML widget - what have you found? - miami criminal defense law firm

miami criminal defense law firm — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:57:56 +0100

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HTML widget - what have you found? - Carl Pendle

Carl Pendle — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:59:13 +0100

Hi, It is July 2010 and my website is all over the place. Downloaded the latest flash player as your recommended and now my html ads and videos are all over the place and safari crashes every time I view my sites with you. what is the fix for this. you can't have a website which doesn't work when you install the latest flash player with safari.

HTML widget - what have you found? - Change Resource

Change Resource — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:11:40 +0000

Hi PLEASE HELP.

I am in no way technical but have managed to pull a site together for work. It looks fine in Safari but when opened in IE it's all over the place.

Does anyone know how i can fix this please? Really appreciate any help

www.changeresource.co.uk

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - pick n mix stand hire

pick n mix stand hire — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:45:29 +0000

I'm using a certain ecom package at the min elsewhere its very expensive and very difficult to customize layout etc... but they convieniently have a design team on stand by for the sum of £30 per hour!!! cant wait for this please hurry moonfruit!

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Walt

Walt — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:55:32 +0000

There has in fact been plenty of peeps out of us. But just not in this article. We certainly have been busy replying in later articles, as well as the forum over the last 12 months.

We are working on it, still. More on the delays can be read elsewhere.

If you want to integrate some eCommerce tools we suggest you try our HTML Snippet widget which came out early 2009 and saw an upgrade later last year.

This will allow use of a variety of HTML snippets which you can add to your site including Google Checkout, Paypal Buttons (HTML versions), and Amazon AStore.

We provided this widget to enable customers to get eCommerce in place while we were working on our own version.

Hope that helps.

Walt

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - canvas paintings

canvas paintings — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:39:58 +0000

Sounds like there's not a peep out of moonfruit on this release, I'm begining to wonder...

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Craig

Craig — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:30:51 +0000

Hi,

Is there any news on when this will be released?

Thanks

Craig

HTML widget - what have you found? - Geniusboywonder

Geniusboywonder — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:03:26 +0000

I am curious as to why some of my javascript html-snippets don't work.

I would really like to include a mobile detect and redirect script, as well as one from Wibiya for feedback etc.

One needs to be installed in the page header and the other before the main <body> tag.

It would be great if Moonfruit could enable this type of control

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Craig

Craig — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:21:20 +0100

Hi,

We recently bought this package to build a webshop for ourselves, I saw this and thought I'd have to be a member to get into the ecommerce tools so paid for the Max package.

How do I view/get to the 'Sitemaker Shop Manager' part of my site?

Thanks

Craig

HTML widget - what have you found? - Ricky

Ricky — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:11:46 +0100

I've also, like Damian, tried to get the html website to display a league table generated by Full-Time, the FA's website. It would be really useful for me to be able to display results and league tables direct from this site rather than having to manually change it each week.

HTML widget - what have you found? - Belfast Grapevine

Belfast Grapevine — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:57:58 +0100

Isit possible to add on local news feeds? and is it also possible that clients can upload their own advertisements and pictures on to the site in a set format for my web page?

Any help would be appreciated.

HTML widget - what have you found? - James

James — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:01:51 +0100

The widget works great for affiliate banners.

I'm now trying to work out how to make it do product feeds. Very stuck though.

Any help would be very appreciated. email me at: info@magic-offers.co.uk

HTML widget - what have you found? - Candy Buffets

Candy Buffets — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:57:46 +0100

PayPal now has a new trick, they keep a "rolling balance" of funds you get from sales, basically they take 8% of every sale you do and hold it for 90 days to help prevent charge backs, this will cripple some smaller sellers and companies working with tiny margins, I have worked for a company who works on 12% margins how can they expect people to survive in todays climate, I can see what they are trying to do but I think 90 days is quite excessive!?

HTML widget - what have you found? - pick n mix stand hire

pick n mix stand hire — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:26:32 +0100

are there any major +'s to google checkout?

HTML widget - what have you found? - Phil

Phil — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:21:52 +0100

I would like a widget for FACEBOOK status updates on my site. That would be a good pre-configured widget!

HTML widget - what have you found? - cjkennedy

cjkennedy — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:21:47 +0100

I also to want to use Google Checkout...Paypal does not suit my business and tend to my needs where as Google Checkout does....what I find with the beta version of the htlm tool is that whne I insert the code inside the edit page it always appears at the bottom of the website and not in the position I want...can ay one help?

HTML widget - what have you found? - ST

ST — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:02:24 +0100

This widget does sound like an innovative solution to the problems of Flash.

The thing I totally want and have expressed is an ability to 100% escape Paypal and use Google Checkout or other Payment solutions that are viable for me but also my Art buyers.

I hope that within the summer even if new ecommerce solutions are way off that this viable Widget will allow me to get away from the horror of having your Paypal funds frozen seemingly at will.

It sounds like you are really working on improving you're service and it's a fantastic development

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HTML widget - what have you found? - EduKate

EduKate — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:17:50 +0100

On my www.testersite.moonfruit.com, I have put on a live streaming webcam.
To be able to do this is a big part of a lot of work I am going to be doing
in the near future with a range of clients. I was delighted to see that the
live feed embedded fine into the page and worked.... but...... when I navigate
away from the page I have embedded it on, it remains in sight on the new page.
I know this is a beta version, but is there anything I can do to prevent this?
Why would it embed and they remain in sight even on different pages? PLEASE can anyone help! If I can't get this to work, I am going to need to find another web building package as it is fundamental in the work I am about to start. Such a shame as I LOVE Moonfruit! Any help gratefully received.

HTML widget - what have you found? - Belfast Grapevine

Belfast Grapevine — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:06:21 +0100

Today, Thursday 2nd of July 2009, I cannot access my account or the moonfruit site. It seems that there are a lot of outtages with moonfruit.

HTML widget - what have you found? - davidmilford

davidmilford — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:45:11 +0100

I would like to add a 'share' button to a number of my pages from www.addthis.com.
To do so I need to Copy and paste the code snippet below into my pages, between the <body> and the </body> tags. Apparently, if my website uses templates, I can also copy the code into my template, so the button will appear on all of my pages automatically. | Anyone any idea how I can do this please? - I am less techy than a non techy!

HTML widget - what have you found? - Walt

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

Hi folks, browser issue responses below:

FF3.5 has gone to RC1

The Chromium team (the folk behind the Chrome browser) have accepted bug we lodged relating to this and have made a bug available for someone (anyone) to pick up and fix.

Opera has just released a new version. We have not tested this.

Thanks

HTML widget - what have you found? - matty

matty — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:45:02 +0100

im having the same problem robyn and cant work it out - any ideas when the html code will work for chrome ????

HTML widget - what have you found? - Robyn

Robyn — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:48:14 +0100

I am trying to add a Windows Media Player Live stream to my website. When I set the player to autostart the audio doubles.

Any suggestions? Could this an issue with moonfruit or the code I am using?

HTML widget - what have you found? - EduKate

EduKate — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:05:14 +0100

I use JAlbum to display my photos to clients, and I would love to embed this within my website, rather than providing a link. When I tried it (as the album provides an embed code) I just got one photo up and when you clicked on it, it was just a link... it would not run within the site. I also tried a selection of the downloadable widgets, like google weather etc, but couldn't get any of them to work. I did manage to get a google map on one page. I think it's a great idea and would be really excellent for my sites, especially the school site I run (www.waterortonprimary.co.uk)

HTML widget - what have you found? - KaguraNJ

KaguraNJ — Mon, 25 May 2009 11:58:40 +0100

Will these issues be fixed with Opera and Google Chrome? I'd really like an answer or an update please.

HTML widget - what have you found? - Cassie

Cassie — Sun, 03 May 2009 23:48:54 +0100

I wanted to use the html widget to incorporate paypal's website payments pro button code, which allows users to pay by credit card without having to sign up for a paypal account.

When I pasted the generated button code into the widget, it displays the paypal button, but when clicked takes me to a paypal page that says "Sorry — your last action could not be completed."

Is this a mis-function of the widget, or am I doing something wrong on the paypal side of things?

HTML widget - what have you found? - Jonas

Jonas — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:18:29 +0100

Ran a couple of experiments regarding compatibility with Firefox.

The widget doesn't work in Minefield 3.6
The widget however does work in 3.0.10 when you change your user agent to IE7/NT6.

...give it a go.

HTML widget - what have you found? - Vicci

Vicci — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:16:25 +0100

Hi - love the widget - great for adding Amazon links but we're trying to get links from Borders using the same widget but it's not appearing. Here's the html script if any tech bods out there can work out why it doesn't work, I'd be most grateful!

<a href="http://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awin..." onmouseover="self.status='http://www.mybeautifulmind.co.uk'; return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''; return true;" target="_top">Borders</a>

thanks
Vicci

HTML widget - what have you found? - Vikas Rajput

Vikas Rajput — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:58:02 +0100

How can I add twitter widget to my website. I saw a moonfruit website http://www.seeitlocal.co.uk/ and it has the twitter widget. Can somebody pls tell me how it is done.

Regards,

Vikas Rajput

HTML widget - what have you found? - dale

dale — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:30:19 +0100

Any news on when it will work for google chrome?

HTML widget - what have you found? - Chris T

Chris T — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:39:13 +0100

The HTML widget is very useful but i think it has caused a bit of a problem on my website, all link buttons are disabled and can not be deleted.

Im sure with more work the HTML widget will be very good so keep up the good work :-)

HTML widget - what have you found? - Damian

Damian — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:21:41 +0100

Hi,

Good widget but can't get the following code to work properly:

<div id="lrep9815731" style="width: 350px;">Data loading....<a href="http://full-time.thefa.com/Index.do...">click here for OSFL Premier Division</a><br/><br/><a href="http://thefa.com/FULL-TIME">FULL-TIME Home<a></div>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

</script>
<script language="Javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://full-time.thefa.com/client/a..."></script>

The code is generated here: http://full-time.thefa.com/CreateCo...

It doesn't complete loading to display the league table as it should, see here: http://www.olympianleague.moonfruit... . A fix would be fantastic!

Cheers

Damian

HTML widget - what have you found? - Katti

Katti — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:49:27 +0100

Hiya, I'm using the widget with some code for the analytics programme Woopra, it sort of works although it's difficult to see the specific pages accessed by visitors since it only displays /cgi-bin/snippet.cgi for all the pages where I'm using the html widget but I'm hoping with the advent of the beta version its functionality should be improved. Thanks for the pioneering work tho..xx

HTML widget - what have you found? - Robert

Robert — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:55:19 +0100

This HTML Widget Is Great It Works Great With What I Use I Use A Website Called "Kickapps" You Can Find It On Google This Site Allows You To Let You Turn Rss Feads From Youtube Playable You Can Custmmize Playlists Etc...
Great Fun!
Thanks Moonfruit!

HTML widget - what have you found? - CleverPenguin

CleverPenguin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:38:03 +0100

Hi,

Tried the Skype button html and found that it does not translate the presence. i.e the Skype button does not show you are on or offline. Would be nice if you fixed that. I'm using IE8

HTML widget - what have you found? - Walt

Walt — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:47:05 +0100

Thanks guys for the comments.

VC, the system is working fine and we haven't had any downtime or errors. If you do have problems accessing your site or you do now can you raise a support ticket and let us know what you mean by 'not working', any changes to your system, your broadband access, your location for access and if possible who your ISP is.

If you have problems accessing your site still and can't reach the support section then please use: http://www.sitemakerlive.com/en/sup...

Thanks

HTML widget - what have you found? - vc

vc — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:22:45 +0100

does anyone relize moonfruit is not working?

HTML widget - what have you found? - Rob

Rob — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:18:26 +0100

Twitter would be a great one to have.

HTML widget - what have you found? - tania

tania — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:05:16 +0100

it's wicked - doing the job great - thankyou...

HTML widget - what have you found? - pocketmore

pocketmore — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:59:38 +0000

Hi guys, am loving the new widget as now i can have cool video players that connect to my fav vids on you tube.

Before had to have numerous players everywere but now i can fill up from you tube and feed straight to my moonfruit site.

Thanks for all the great work !!

HTML widget - what have you found? - Niall

Niall — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:34:16 +0000

I used it for a lot of widgets but deleted them as not everyone uses IE...

HTML widget - what have you found? - pinkpig

pinkpig — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:50:42 +0000

The widget is brilliant!

I use it to place a badge on my site which links to my royalty free portfolio of illustrations-
and can now get referral fees from this link when somebody signs up and buys from the site.
I am so non-technical its not true but this was easy to do

thanks Moonfruit

HTML widget - what have you found? - heth

heth — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:25:38 +0000

Well I am completely new to website building so it could be me! I used the widget to insert the code for a webring I have joined. However it does not show correctly on the page the icon and navbar are missing. If I click show page in html it shows up perfectly I am using IE7. Not sure what is wrong?

HTML widget - what have you found? - hotpagedesign

hotpagedesign — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:53:36 +0000

I cant get my "godaddy" domain certified seal to appear in your widget. Although it does contain java in the html script. Will this work soon?

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - john436

john436 — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:03:25 +0000

Hi...I'm desparate for the new ecommerce release and have been stalling clients...what's the word...a week?....a month? 2months? third quarter??????

please advise

HTML widget - what have you found? - Angel

Angel — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:11:00 +0000

I have used it to provide live chat service to my visitors with providesupport.com. Seems to work fine, but only with "html code for websites where scripting is prohibited"...
No link here since I have used a hidden test page.

Very nice job.
Well done!

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Halo

Halo — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:07:14 +0000

Hi Walt,

How about a widget for that grants access to a (free promo) download but only via an email submission. Example - a view to using the emails for a follow up promo newsletter, etc.

This would be a great promo tool.

Best wishes.

HTML widget - what have you found? - Martin

Martin — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:22:14 +0000

I downloaded the widget and I have used it to display the latest weather in Florida for my website www.emeraldislandtownhouse.com

I cut and paste the code from www.widgetbox.com and it works great.

So I think a weather widget would be a great idea.

Thanks

Martin

HTML widget - what have you found? - mcgiardina

mcgiardina — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:16:22 +0000

I don't have any problems viewing or adding the widgets on my mac using Firefox 3.0.7 or Safari 4 beta.

I would love to change out the video player on my site to a youtube player if I could confirm this on the windows side of things.

HTML widget - what have you found? - Luke B

Luke B — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:17:02 +0000

Love this little idea, would hope it works eventually with all browsers.

Really want to use this for affiliate programes

Luke

HTML widget - what have you found? - Lamin

Lamin — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:27:38 +0000

Hi Joe,

Yes the feed is taken from my Moonfruit Forum.

Thanks,
Lamin

HTML widget - what have you found? - Joe

Joe — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:29:06 +0000

Thanks Isaac, saw it, looks good ;-). The Firefox issue is a known issue due to a bug in the FF browser. They have fixed the bug, which will be released in the FF 3.5 update, which should be out in June. After that we can make the HTML widget work in FF too. Thanks,

Joe

HTML widget - what have you found? - Joe

Joe — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:29:19 +0000

Cool. Thanks Lamin, does that take the feed from your moonfruit forum?

Joe

HTML widget - what have you found? - Isaac

Isaac — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:27:33 +0000

I have recently built, and still in the process of finishing, an online portfolio for my recent work (however primitive), using Moonfruit and I found the HTML snippet quite useful. I am currently using the snippet to display the twitter flash html app to allow my updates to be shown on my site. Using Internet Explorer I have found no problems displaying the twitter app on my homepage, but when viewing the site with Firefox it only displays the app on the bottom of the screen, = (. The link to my site is http://isaac-volpe.moonfruit.com/, if you care to take a peek.

HTML widget - what have you found? - Lamin

Lamin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:23:45 +0000

Hi Joe,

I was one of the guys who downloaded the HTML Widget and have tried it on a few things and I think this idea from Moonfruit to get around the HTML issue with a flash based application is a step in the right direction.

I used the widget as some sort of a headliner for my forum and you could check this out below:

http://www.ksa-uk.org/#/aboutus/452...

Keep up the grand work at Moonfruit!

Lamin

HTML widget - what have you found? - Joe

Joe — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:57:05 +0000

Hi Craig, Excel may not create the cleanest HTML code, and it may be that it doesn't work in some browsers, hence the problem in IE. Do you have a link to the page with the code on it?

Joe

HTML widget - what have you found? - Craig

Craig — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:50:54 +0000

I wanted to see if I could create a table using the HTML widget so exported one from excel. I'm using IE6, Flash 10 and several browser.
I have found that IE6 shows nothing, both Firefox and Opera display the table but unfortunately below the boundary of the web page. Can anyone suggest what I can llok for in the HTML code.
BTW can someone advise the easiest way to manage table data on Moonfruit.

HTML widget - what have you found? - Joe

Joe — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:45:32 +0000

Hi Raymond, do you have a link to this? Thanks, Joe

HTML widget - what have you found? - Raymond

Raymond — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:30:07 +0000

I have used this Widget to make my Paypal functions more versatile.
so i created a button in Paypal that has a stock counter so after i have run out of a specific item Paypal states that it is not for sale making it a less manual process for me.

It also allows for drop down's so you can pick certain sizes of a product.

I think this is one of the best things to happen to Sitemaker as it opens the door to almost anything.

Keep up the good work guys. (and gals)

HTML widget - what have you found? - Joe

Joe — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:17:27 +0000

Do you have a link to it working? I'd be interested in seeing it.

HTML widget - what have you found? - tiggernibble

tiggernibble — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:14:03 +0000

Well I've started using it with Google Calendar as I find it much more flexible and user-friendly compared to the current Sitemaker calendar widget. I'm sure I'll find more uses for it in the future, especially when more of the bugs have been worked out. Great work so far though!

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Q

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:00:19 +0000

Hi Guys
2 questions:
1) Will it soon be possible to ask website users for an email address prior to allowing them to download say, a free report, from our site? To encourage data collection of prospects which can be usd for email marketing campaigns.... After entering the email adress (possibly using existing forms), we would need functionality to redirect them to a 'dowload' page from the form/request page, conditional upon their having entered the required data. But at the moment we cannot redirect from the existing forms....
Makes sense?
2) Re the flash page length limitation... we love moonfruit but have a pressing need to sell a digital download via a very long 'sales letter' page/site..you know, the ones with all different font sizes and colours, and a PS and a PPS.... e.g. http://www.guide2ebooks.com/ ....Who do you recommend for building the website?
(of course we wil continue using moonfruit for all other sites :)
Thanks for your time.
Q

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - hq

hq — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:40:57 +0000

You should consider the little elves here in Xi'an for your outsourcing antics. A fully booked up army of engineers just waiting to please. And the price is right too! Forget about software as a service (saas) and start thinking about Software in Xian (SIX)

Thanks for all your great efforts guys

Cheers

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Walt

Walt — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:36:11 +0000

Hi Pijjama,

At present our software isn't customisable. As a Site Leader you can add text and title text boxes in a variety of languages, but the widgets them selves are only available in English from Moonfruit.com and French on Moonfruit.fr.

Changing the widget language would require translating the entire product and this is a mammoth undertaking even for one language, like French. It is unlikely, at present, that we would be able to offer anything as flexible as what you appear to need. But as the product develops, who knows. A few years ago we wouldn't have thought we'd be offering SiteMaker Software in French!

But thanks for your comments. It's food for thought.

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Pijjama

Pijjama — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:51:40 +0000

Hi Joe,
I Have a question.
Considering, site maker has a user from all around the world and people using it in different language.
Will be able to built mentioned widgets as customizable so people can customize headers according to their language. For exampele Can we able to customize "username" header in to our own language etc.

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Walt

Walt — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:51:44 +0000

Hi Toronto Home Theatre,

All details are included in the email. In summary, we have been running version 3 and 4 concurrently for as long as we possibly could but now the very old SiteMaker 3 legacy code is affecting how we take SiteMaker forward.

Just follow the instructions in the email and take note of the dates. This still gives you time to play around with the look and feel of any upgraded sites before committing those changes. Once the cut off date is reached you won't have any choice but to use the Version 4 tools to edit your site. That said you will have infinitely more options available to you and plenty more features.

Regards - Walt

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - toronto home theater

toronto home theater — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:56:20 +0000

Ok... I've been out on a long lunch I guess... I have a bunch of sites and read about version 3 and 4 etc... upgrading and having to re-do everything ? Where do I read about this and find out what my position is?

thanks

Jeff

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Walt

Walt — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:08:36 +0000

Hi Halo,

We don't have any intention to brand the shop. It will be like our other widgets in that they will simply do what they are intended to do without any branding.

Regards,

Walt

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - avinitlarge

avinitlarge — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 05:51:19 +0000

Wooooooooooooooooooohoooooooooo!!!!! Ohh i cant wait for this, its going to be amazing with the non branded membership! I already recommend moonfruit to everyone, and now i will have another reason to recommend it even more! awesome!!!!! :)

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Halo

Halo — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:31:04 +0000

Hi Walt,

Thank you for all the insight, look forward to seeing the new features roll out and the development progression.

Hi Joe,

Will the SiteMakerStore be Non-Branded, or at least the option of making it such, etc.

Thank you,

Darrel.

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Rick

Rick — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:55:26 +0000

Very useful - thanks!
http://www.dietwebreport.com

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Joe

Joe — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:27:51 +0000

Hi John,

The shop will work like most other stores, in that a customer can complete an order without signing up, or they can sign up if they want to have an account for future purchases.

The membership changes we are doing will allow 'site only' membership, which means users don't to have a 'sitemaker' user account. So in this sense, yes there will be non-branded sign-ups allowed.

I hope that helps,

Joe

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - John

John — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:00:36 +0000

Hi,

From what I understand a "shopper" (using the new "MF Shop") will have to sign up to purchase a item through us . If most transactions go through PayPal, do all users have to have a MF account? I know for certain that some people don't like signing up to a account purchasing something, esp if its a small item. Can we have the option of just collecting their personal details instead of making them sign up?

Also will there be branding on the Shop or User Sign ups?

Thanks
John

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Walt

Walt — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:31:35 +0000

Wow, you leave the Lounge alone for 5 minutes and everyone is posting ;-)

I'll try to answer, as best I can your queries.

Darrel, as far as Digital Downloads is concerned it's on our radar. We have to put the infrastructure in place first with membership and then the Shop. We'll get the shop out with a number of useful features and then see what can be added. So we'll take on board your request for a control centre, although no promises on that score. But digital downloads is something we do want to provide.

To figure out the daily bandwidth just take the current figure (monthly) and divide by 30 so Max which is 60GB/m would be 2GB per day (24 hours).

Hi Drew, well we aren't considering any price increases. All these release and future development is factored into current development life cycles. We are committed to keeping prices low, and yet still offering new features and tools on a regular basis.

Peter, the Calendar and News/Blog were never on offer in the Library as they were always offered as a page type. If you go to the pages menu, add a new page, you'll find Calendar and News/Blog pages in the choices.

Paul, it's hard to be specific, although we hope to have the shop out early Q2. We would love to give an exact date as in the scope of our development we may find more features we want to include for just a little more work. Or that one particular key feature takes a little longer than expected. We would rather not give a specific date and disappoint everyone. As we get closer to the time we will be able to give a more accurate estimate but at this stage it isn't feasible. I hope that makes sense.

Thanks

Walt

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Paul

Paul — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:04:50 +0000

When you guys say early 2009 for the ecommerce tools could you be a ikkle bit more precise?? I have a basketball retailer wanting an ecommerce site, if I can give him an idea of when the new tools will be available he may wait for these instead of using what is currently there??

Merry Xmas One and All

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Peter

Peter — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:08:30 +0000

Great release!

The calendar and news/blog objects seem to have disapeared from the Library.

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Drew

Drew — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:54:20 +0000

please guys do not ask for to much as I can not afford any price increase at the mo what with the credit crunch ! I am greatful for all new updates that are FREE

Merry Christmas Moonfruit

Drew

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Halo

Halo — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:25:51 +0000

Hi Walt,

Those SuperMax accounts look great, those with the Downloads Store look something I'm going to need to use.

May I ask, what's the 24hr bandwidth for the Standard, Plus, Max accounts currently?

Can't wait for the new SiteMakerStore, thats going to be liberating for us making music.

Thank you.

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Halo

Halo — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:11:56 +0000

Hi Joe,

Last but not least, would SiteMaker provide a Real Time Bandwidth Status Monitor, with details of daily/weeky usage, this was be a great stats insight I feel for those looking to monitor download traffic, and help later with the SiteMaker Digital Downloads Store overview of stats/usage.

Cheers,

Darrel.

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Halo

Halo — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:02:45 +0000

Hi Joe,

Until SiteMaker develop a Digital Downloads Store to sell music and music videos with Paypal, is there any hope of SiteMaker giving us a Downloads Monitoring Panel, as currently there's no way of knowing how many people download individual free promo MP3's, etc.

I'd like to see a downloads control centre that shows all the downloads, per day, week, month, and total amount since upload, etc.

Thanks,

Darrel.

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Walt

Walt — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:59:03 +0000

Thanks Halo (Darrel),

Yes SuperMax products also include increased bandwidth, along side the increased disk quota. I'll list them below:

SuperMax 1: Disk- 3GB / B'width - 120GB (4GB/24hr) / Domain vouchers- 3
SuperMax 2: Disk- 5GB / B'width - 180GB (6GB/24hr) / Domain vouchers- 4
SuperMax 3: Disk- 10GB / B'width - 240GB (8GB/24hr) / Domain vouchers- 5
SuperMax 4: Disk- 15GB / B'width - 300GB (10GB/24hr) / Domain vouchers- 6

As for digital downloads, we are hoping to provide much greater flexibility and scope in our new SiteMakerShop so watch this space ;-)

And Merry Xmas to you too.

Walt

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Halo

Halo — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:35:21 +0000

Hi Joe,

Does SuperMax Products only include disc storage and not also download bandwidth?

If not, you SiteMaker please also include extra Bandwidth options in the same manner.

Cheers,

Darrel.

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Halo

Halo — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:18:59 +0000

Hi Joe,

Really looking forward to all the great new features, awesome work indeed, been.

Regarding Digital Downloads and selling MP3/Wav/Avi files, that would be great for bands, I really hope you guys make a great internal control system for this within our sites, to monitor and sell music/music videos directly from us artists/bands at SiteMaker.

Happy Christmas to all at SiteMaker.

Best wishes,

Darrel.

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - UKGospel

UKGospel — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:54:27 +0000

Typed it in and...

Hell-oooooo: more options.....

Thanks, Joe!

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Joe

Joe — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:34:40 +0000

Hi UKGospel,

Actually it doesn't have to be a secret! If you type 'supermax' into the promotions box on the upgrade panel, you will see the Supermax products.They allow 3, 5, 10 and 15 GB of disk respectively. I hope that helps,

Joe

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - UKGospel

UKGospel — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:43:01 +0000

Cheers...

In view of the amount of MP3s I have (and am likely to create more of), I might be taking you up on that offer...

I'm sure you can see my email address: pls email me details...

Thanks, again! Great service (as usual!)

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Joe

Joe — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:55:42 +0000

Hi UKGospel,

We do have some 'secret' packs that have more diskspace than Max, so if you get stuck we can always give the instructions to be able to upgrade to those. Thanks,

Joe

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - UKGospel

UKGospel — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:37:14 +0000

Cheers, Joe!!

I'll check me account re: my 'how much space can I buy' question - sure I've seen it there before...

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Joe

Joe — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:27:50 +0000

Hi UKGospel,

The front-end of the store will fit into an existing SiteMaker site, and you'll be able to add any widgets to the store pages in addition to the product display widgets. So you will be able to have jukeboxes there too and play music if you want to. I hope that helps,

Joe

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - UKGospel

UKGospel — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:03:40 +0000

Thanks, Walt...

Like they say: honesty is the best policy (",)

I thought you'd say something like that...

It does stand to reason - you're always gonna need critical mass for a lot of your feature developments. Sadly - based on some of the comments I sometimes read here - some people don't appreciate that.

Besides I think the 'Jooma vs Sitemaker' question is fundamentally an apples vs oranges comparison anyway. I just wanted a feel for where you guys were going with it - thanks for the honest answer...

I already have a Sitemaker online store that I was looking to migrate to OSCommerce (or something like it), but that screenshot means I might hold on for a bit longer - I hope the front end will look just as good (subject to your user testing, etc...)

Can I slip in another quick question? (Sorry - it is on-topic, though): will the store be able to play music using the Sitemaker players (as I run a music store)?

At the moment I link to another site for music previews (a major hassle), and - still on a related point - what's the current limit to space I can buy (as I have *LOADS* of MP3 previews - *LOADS*)

I thought 2009 was the year I'd be migrating my sites to Open Source systems - but it looks like you might have me for a while yet...

Thanks for listening and responding - and sorry for going *so far* off topic!

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Walt

Walt — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:36:02 +0000

Oooops, forgot to tidy up the unanswered questions. Joomla and CMS? Perhaps.

We have to take each request and suggestion on its merits, its feasibility, and its impact on the customer base. Hence our working on membership first, then e-Commerce. If we see a growing need by a large number of our customers for something like this, then we will have to look at what is required to build it (with full functionality), the resources required and the time frame for development measured against other projects. So as I said, perhaps, but it certainly does look interesting.

As for downloads, it won't be part of our initial e-Commerce offering but probably something we'll look at further down the line. There are many things we could include in this new tool but that would take us till 2010 to deliver. So what we will do is deliver you an exceptionally good e-Commerce tool early 2009, and then add features to it as are needed. In the meantime we suggest trying payloadz.com as a nice alternative.

But thanks for keeping me honest with the questions ;-)

Walt

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Walt

Walt — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:19:44 +0000

Hi UKGospel,

All fixed. At 17:25. ;-)

Thanks and Merry Christmas to you as well.

Walt

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - UKGospel

UKGospel — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:19:13 +0000

17:24: site back!!

Thanks, guys!

Answer to the Joomla, CMS and downloads questions...?

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - UKGospel

UKGospel — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:15:57 +0000

Oh yeah:

Keep up the good work, guys...

Sitemaker might not be to everyone's taste, and I wish we didn't have this Flash/SEO thing to deal with, plus it's a nightmare for browsing on mobile phones (at the moment), and yeah your customer response is sometimes slow...

But I still think you guys do a *superb* job!!

Well done and happy Christmas!

P.S. Having said all of that - my site still isn't working as at 17:22!!!

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - UKGospel

UKGospel — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:09:25 +0000

I love the very polite way you guys dish out your nasty smackdowns!!

...yes, I know we've had v3 and v4 running in parallel for 4 years (poke in the eye right back atcha, Joe!!!) (",)

All my other sites are on Version 4 and I LOVE it.

I've had so many designs on UKGospel.com over the years (since 2000, I think) that a V4 upgrade and subsequent page tweaks was just going to be sooooo much work....

In the end I decided that a transfer of content seemed like less hassle - but was always scared of doing it in view of the number of pages involved...

Oh well, time to dive in and start copy/pasting/downloading pictures en masse - no mince pies for me...

While we’re talking: couple more questions

- will Moonfruit Sitemaker ever become (or offer) a CMS...? It's up against Joomla in terms of which one I decide to go for at the moment...

- ‘Query’ also asked about digital downloads. Any news on that?

Cheers (I think…)

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Walt

Walt — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:43:05 +0000

UKGospel, yeah sorry about that we are working on getting that out this afternoon. Will update you as soon as it's out.

Ian, your site problem is not related to UKGospel's. You don't have a SM3 site so it's been affected by something else. The changes to your site look completely unrelated to anything we've done with our release. However we can see you have been quite busy making changes to your container - the area your site sits in. What we have done to restore the site to it's original width by reverting to a restore point or saved copy. So if you check your site now it's back to what looks like the original width.

-Walt

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Joe

Joe — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:39:54 +0000

Hi UKGospel,

Sorry about that, it will be fixed in the next few minutes. And sorry it will take you some time to upgrade the site. We have been running the two versions in parallel for as long as we could (4 years now), but finally the sitemaker 3 legacy code is affecting how we can improve the sitemaker 4 product, as they still share the same data structure. 95% of all SM3 users have now upgarded, and there is a small fraction that still have not. We had hoped 4 years would be enough time, and the benefits of using SM4 are now significant because of the expanded feature set.

Apologies this will cause you some Xmas bother, but I hope you enjoy the benefits of SM4 once it is done. Take care and good luck!

Joe

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - UKGospel

UKGospel — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:31:54 +0000

...and that's why I put off upgrading for so long...

With the number of pages I have on this site the upgrade is just going to be a *nightmare*.

You've already ruined my Christmas as I'm going to have to work through most of it to sort what I'm going to do....

Bah, humbug, Sitemaker! Grr!

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - UKGospel

UKGospel — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:23:47 +0000

Walt,

A pre-Christmas attack is just what was needed. Nothing like a major panic to make you feel alive... (",)

Still not fixed yet (16:29), but we live in hope...

Any idea on timescale?

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Walt

Walt — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:19:07 +0000

UKGospel and Ian, we were doing some tidy up on some code around version numbers this appears to have caused the problem. We've discovered the cause and expect to have it reversed out ASAP. Sorry for the pre-holiday heart attack!

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Query

Query — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:02:11 +0000

Will this store also allow us to sell digital downloads...?

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Ian

Ian — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:37:01 +0000

Same here....not impressed!

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - UKGospel

UKGospel — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:07:38 +0000

Guys,

My version 3 site http://www.ukgospel.moonfruit.com suddenly went mad earlier today!!

Help!! I think you might be doing something that has affected version 3 sites!!

EVERYTHING is messed up on my site: page length (not long enough in MANY cases), menu showing where I didn't want them to, invisible links now visible and many more horrors!!

VISITORS EVEN SEE THE EDIT MODE!!!!!

It looks HORRIBLE!!!!!

I have *well over a thousand pages* and was preparing for the upgrade you promised would happen *later this month*, not now!!

Help, please. EXTREMELY urgent!!

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Joe

Joe — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:50:51 +0000

Hi Justin,

I believe the maximum page length (2200) is a limit in Flash. The product display widgets will allow you to use up to all of this space, but they will also be 'pageable' so you can go through pages of products just like posts in the forum. I hope that helps,

Joe

New release - 18th Dec 2008 - Justin

Justin — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:08:11 +0000

Google Maps is a great Xmas present – thanks guys.

The e-commerce stuff looks like it will be a much improved addition to MF. To go with this are there any plans to increase the maximum page lengths to accommodate pages with long product lists?

Thanks and have a great Crimble
Justin