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Get Blogging with Moonfruit! - Gary

Gary — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:56:35 +0000

Hi Lyanba,

If you have a paid account, I'd suggest sending a Support ticket through so that we can take a look at this. If you're on a Free account, you can post on the forum instead, but a copy of the code will be required.

Thanks,

Gary

Get Blogging with Moonfruit! - Lyanba

Lyanba — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:56:39 +0000

I'm trying to add a Wibiya toolbar to my Moonfruit site but it's not working very well. Wibiya says to copy and paste the generated code into your HTML template before the </body> tag. Obvius Moonfruit doesn't work like this so I tried pasting in to a HTML snippet but that doesn't work propoerly. Please ca you provide more information on how I can add this to my Moonfruit site and blog.
Thanks

Get Blogging with Moonfruit! - Gary

Gary — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:56:45 +0000

Hi Dave,

I'm afraid this isn't possible at the moment, but I will pass the suggestion on to our Development team.

HTH,

Gary

Get Blogging with Moonfruit! - dave

dave — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:43:09 +0000

is there a way on moonfruit to make the comments on blogs 'do follow' links where people can add web links to their name on the comment? this just brings people to the site looking for links and makes the website a bit more popular to google

Get Blogging with Moonfruit! - Gary

Gary — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:55:27 +0000

Hi wafflesole,

I'm afraid neither of these features are available yet - sorry. We are working on the ability to add HTML to the posts (which will allow both of these things), and hope to have this out soon.

HTH,

Gary

Get Blogging with Moonfruit! - wafflesole

wafflesole — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:32:53 +0000

just trying out the mf blog and have a few questions. Is there a way to introduce an image into the blog using only the url? Wordpressand blogger have this feature. Also i've been used to using HTML to inser videos from vimeo and there isnt that option, how do i embedd a video?

nat

Get Blogging with Moonfruit! - RobGarvey

RobGarvey — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:18:44 +0100

Hi, i used the template deigner to create my site and found it very easy to insert a blog and a forum so i can get people talking about money saving ideas on my site and give me feedback.

If anyone wants to check it out at www.robgarvey.moonfruit.com and give me some pointers i would be more than grateful

Rob x

Get Blogging with Moonfruit! - Walt

Walt — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:52:17 +0100

Hi Romi,

It's certainly something we've been thinking about when it comes time to review improvements.

Cheers,

Walt

Get Blogging with Moonfruit! - Romi

Romi — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 03:58:34 +0100

Hello,
I was just wondering if there will be a blog archive and tag list available in the near future?

Thanks in advance

Get Blogging with Moonfruit! - Gary

Gary — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:29:55 +0100

Hi Daniel,

Can you let us know the URL of your site, please?

Thanks,

Gary

Get Blogging with Moonfruit! - Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:01:21 +0100

I inserted a blog into my website, as a subset of a page with a master page layout. I cannot figure out how to make a new post... it says click on the toolbar above, but there is no toolbar that says anything about a blog. Can you help????

Get Blogging with Moonfruit! - Gary

Gary — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:06:19 +0100

Hi Sonny,

I'm afraid there was a problem with the blog around the time of your post, but this is fixed now. If you want to remove the blog from your site at any point, you simply need to delete the page.

HTH,

Gary

Get Blogging with Moonfruit! - tanra

tanra — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 03:54:00 +0100

wow..its cool, i want to try it

Get Blogging with Moonfruit! - Sonny

Sonny — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:47:32 +0100

Hi all good and such but there seems to be a mayor problem with the blog's, look at this

http://blogbeta.moonfruit.com/#/hom...

thats sort of how it looked on my site so can you tell me please
how to remove this beta blog from my site?????????

Sonny

Get Blogging with Moonfruit! - Elvis Presley Impersonator

Elvis Presley Impersonator — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:06:15 +0100

Wow them new templates look great! Nice one...

Moonfruit Sites: Celebrating the Royal Wedding! - Tina @ wedding favors

Tina @ wedding favors — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 06:12:44 +0100

My family and I witnessed the wedding and it was really awesome! The beautiful couple are so happy with their big day. Kate is so lucky.

Moonfruit Sites: Celebrating the Royal Wedding! - Gary

Gary — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:31:11 +0100

Hi John,

Can you confirm what browser you are using? We have seen the problem you describe occur when Internet Explorer 7 is used. If this is the case, upgrading to the latest version of IE - which we recommend in any case - should cure it.

HTH,

Gary

Moonfruit Sites: Celebrating the Royal Wedding! - john

john — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:28:13 +0100

my site is ok when I log in through my site. The new account Im trying to do is on my friends email address so you wont have any record of the account as I cannot set one up. Nothing happens when I click launch account, its as if there's a fault with the box, no clicking sound happens to acknowledge that Ive clicked on the box.
Ive tried to do it using varius email addresses but nothing at all happens. I cannot exit the box either by clicking on the x. Yet the screen behind the box I can still scroll up and down on.

Moonfruit Sites: Celebrating the Royal Wedding! - Walt

Walt — Tue, 31 May 2011 09:39:08 +0100

Hi John, Can you give me a site address please as the email address you used isn't registered on our system. That way we can check your account. Normally, if your account permits more than one site you shouldn't have an issue creating a new site if you haven't reached your site quota.

Thanks

Walt

Moonfruit Sites: Celebrating the Royal Wedding! - john

john — Sun, 29 May 2011 21:59:33 +0100

its me again from above. I can log into my site now by typing my mf site name then /login. But I still cannot create a new site for my friend. I keep clicking 'launch my site' and nothing happens.

Moonfruit Sites: Celebrating the Royal Wedding! - john

john — Sun, 29 May 2011 21:10:51 +0100

Help
I cant log in to my mf site. And I cant set up a new account (for a friend) either. I type in the name, email and password, click 'register' or 'log in', then nothing happens. I cannot even exit by pressing the 'x' at the top corner of the small box either. Whats happened?

Moonfruit Sites: Celebrating the Royal Wedding! - Walt

Walt — Tue, 03 May 2011 14:03:58 +0100

Hi Kaya (and anyone else who's interested), the easiest thing is to highlight a few steps.

1. If you sign up with the Fruitful Beta group on Facebook first

2. Then go to the Beta Blog site and click Join. Once you have logged in and joined the site you will find a Blog icon on your toolbar when you return to your site:

3. Please read all the current feedback and comments before posting your own or logging a bug or issue.

4. Please do not contact Support over this. Use the appropriate channels for feedback so that we can collate in one place and keep everyone informed.

And remember it is a beta version, it will initially be missing a few features and we are fixing bugs at present. But at least it will give you sense of what is due for release very very shortly.

Thanks.

Walt

Moonfruit Sites: Celebrating the Royal Wedding! - KAYA

KAYA — Tue, 03 May 2011 13:20:04 +0100

Hi Walt ,

It is good to hear that blog is on testing stage. I also wanted to test blog feature. Can you also open up beta version for me that I realy want to test it and provide a feedback.

Look forward to hear from you

Moonfruit Sites: Celebrating the Royal Wedding! - Walt

Walt — Tue, 03 May 2011 12:04:50 +0100

As follow up to Sarah's post and in response to the queries about blog and e-commerce tools I would like to say we have posted in numerous locations and on our Forum regards updates on these. But I'm happy to re-iterate what has been said and respond to the other points.

Blog: This is in Beta and has been opened up to a group of users to provide feedback. This is the first time we've experimented with this but we took on board comments from customers about our release processes. This time round we invited a sizeable number of customers to assist us with testing and feedback which we have been collating for several weeks. We've begun refining the Blog in readiness for the General Release which is due in a few weeks.

Yes this has taken longer than expected but we wanted customers to get a chance to test, use and provide feedback before we went to the full release.

e-Commerce: Once the Blog is out on general release, and we are happy all bugs have been resolved then we will start work on the e-Commerce tools. This will take some months but as we have explained, last year was year of ensuring the platform could handle the new products the way we wanted to them to work. Not excuses but a fact of software development and some tough business decisions. As we have said often, we are also disappointed at not being able to deliver some things sooner. But we took a call to make our system, code and infrastructure more robust and risk deferring the e-Commerce tools. This was a hard but necessary decision to make.

But we feel, that once the blog is out, we'll have set the platform and processes in place to ensure quicker delivery of products. Though I would say we still will focus on delivery of stability and quality even if some functions or features come in later iterations.

Blog and Weddings: Well, while the developers carry on with coding the blog we still have a job to do with keeping the community spirit alive and the wedding was an opportunity to invite customers - new and old - to be creative.

Promises: While you may think our promises have been hollow we have in all good intention, felt that some projects like the long awaited e-Commerce would be delivered sooner. That wasn't to be the case as we realised we needed to make a lot of changes to support that type of feature. Whether you believe us (me) or not, we do feel this year is about delivery. We have obviously called on our customer's patience (especially many of the long serving ones) to the point where this year we must deliver. Yes, we understand that we have to reward that faith.

The blog will certainly be the start of this deliver year. Though we will update and add to it while the e-Commerce tools are in development. But we have grown our dev team significantly over the last 12 months so that we can do just this. Deliver.

We know a lot of our customers are frustrated and at the end of their tether. We hear it and we feel it. We have certainly earned some of the comments above. And all we can ask is a little more patience. I know that's a big ask.

Thanks,

Walt

Moonfruit Sites: Celebrating the Royal Wedding! - Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 03 May 2011 09:37:40 +0100

Hey everyone,

We apologies for the temporary down time that we had on Thursday and the sites were back up and running as soon humanly possible. We did have status updates about the down time here: <a href= "http://status.sitemakerlive.com/pos...">Status Update</a>

All support requests were responded to both on Twitter, Facebook and the Support forum with regard to this issue during this down time and after with little lag.

Should you have issues with the site being slow or suspect a down time issue please do raise this with us in the support forum which you will find here and you will find the response time much quicker. You can find the support forum here: http://support.moonfruit.com/home

Moonfruit Sites: Celebrating the Royal Wedding! - Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 03 May 2011 03:17:24 +0100

I have had enough as well ... there development team is terrible. Slow and laggy. To many excuses as well of why their releases are slow.

We were promised this year we will see lots of new features but we have hardly got anything good.

As bad as their new site ...

Moonfruit Sites: Celebrating the Royal Wedding! - Etasham

Etasham — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:17:05 +0100

Hey can I say I'm FED UP of all this waiting! I log on to this blog everyday hoping of a new realeas on the blogs, but nothing! And today of all days I've had a great day watching the Royal Wedding, came to the blogs and saw a new post had been made! Got all excited then looked and it was about the wedding and NOT the blogs!! argh!! (loved wedding though lol)

Come on MF! Sort yourself out! April has flown away...

Moonfruit Sites: Celebrating the Royal Wedding! - The Atlas Lions

The Atlas Lions — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:39:50 +0100

Hi all,

I second what the other guys said. I have been a customer of MF since late 2000. My business is relying on newsblog and other widgets like directory and calendar and these features have not been changed since the start of MF. It's frustrating but I hope MF can bring us what we have been waiting for ages now and I think they will. It's just a matter of time ;)

Cheers,
Atlas

Moonfruit Sites: Celebrating the Royal Wedding! - Nick

Nick — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:15:46 +0100

Just to add...

I've also been here from the early days (about 10 years or so now...)

What is most frustrating is we have a long list of scheduled changes we've been basing around promised release dates that have continually been moved back. This is having a detrimental effect on my businesses. I've stuck with MF all these years because I really believed they were committed to valuing existing customers above all else. Although MF have always had a small team, I believed them to be passionate about keeping us happy. This increasingly seems to be less important in their quest for increasing new customers and putting more resources into marketing and customer acquisition.

I'm both disheartened and disappointed about that.

Instead of posting about meaningless topics on the Royal Wedding (as nice as it was), I'm sure we would have all much preferred you put the time in on completing whatever is still outstanding with finishing the seemingly eternal testing on the ever-illusive blog!

I second the point about the e-commerce tools too.

You must understand that your hollow promises have kept a large number of your customers hanging on for these releases, trusting your word - only to find out time and time again, we've been let down. The key point here is, it is not just an emotional disappointment, this is negatively impacting our businesses while we all continue to pay you to sustain and grow YOUR business as each month goes by, as we wait. If these tools are not going to happen, just say so and allow us to look at other solutions.

Surely you see this situation isn't right?

Moonfruit Sites: Celebrating the Royal Wedding! - kekefan

kekefan — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:33:20 +0100

Have to add my disappointment to the broken promise of the blog release. I also have to echo the comments above, particularly those of Bob and Fabrizio. When you've been here for many years (myself for 9), patience is now starting to run very thin.

Moonfruit Sites: Celebrating the Royal Wedding! - Fabrizio Van Marciano

Fabrizio Van Marciano — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:48:54 +0100

To be honest this has now started to gripe me now, my domain runs out in 15 days time and I've also been hearing about blogs and ecommerce tools for the last year and a half. As much as I have loved using Moonfruit since 2004 I simply can't afford to wait any longer. I'm off to WordPress with my business websites after the weekend:(

Moonfruit Sites: Celebrating the Royal Wedding! - Bob

Bob — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:12:05 +0100

Dont worry guys! I have been waiting for the ecommerce tools for something like 1 year 8 months now. They are hopeless ...

I dont like where MF is heading. It was brilliant when it was smaller and less well known :(

I have been a customer since they started as well... so its hard for me to say this

Moonfruit Sites: Celebrating the Royal Wedding! - KAYA

KAYA — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:45:51 +0100

Hi I am also wondering when will you release blog ? We were waiting it in April since you said so but nothing so far ?

Moonfruit Sites: Celebrating the Royal Wedding! - Nick

Nick — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:09:07 +0100

Guys, you said the new blog would be released sometime in April - we're at the end of April! Been waiting patiently for a long time now.

What's going on?...

Moonfruit Sites: Celebrating the Royal Wedding! - Walt

Walt — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:49:17 +0100

Hi Rainbow and Keepsakek, Yes we had a short period of service restriction which we tackled as soon as we noticed it. It took us a while to stabilise the service, and it now looks to back to normal. But we are investigating the possible causes of this.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

~ Walt

Moonfruit Sites: Celebrating the Royal Wedding! - rainbow

rainbow — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:52:03 +0100

What's happening? Can't log onto my a/c to edit website or access moonfruit help. getting messge saying 'bad gateway'! please remedy asap as urgent.

Moonfruit Sites: Celebrating the Royal Wedding! - keepsakek

keepsakek — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:55:12 +0100

Hope your customers ordered early as no websites again, yet again moonfruit server is down

A month at Moonfruit - TheAtlasLions

TheAtlasLions — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:18:15 +0100

Hi Leila,

Great to have u on Moonfruit team, I have been a customer of Moonfruit since 2001 and I like it but recently my moonfruit sites are getting slower and slower to load I think it has to do with the new toolbar. I have already submitted a ticket and i am waiting for an answer. I hope you can do something about this. Because my sites are popular especially TheAtlasLions.com but this slow loading is just chasing people away and is very frustrating.

Thanks for your help and good luck with Moonfruit.

Cheers/Salams,

Hassan Atlas

A month at Moonfruit - Leila

Leila — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:42:54 +0100

Thanks Alex.

Please submit any ideas you may have to social@moonfruit.com

Leila

A month at Moonfruit - Alex

Alex — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:34:35 +0100

Keep up all the good work and ideas at moonfruit! All as we need now is an update ;) Cant wait!