8 Feb 2008 - First Release of the Year!

  • Updating page URLs and bookmarking
  • Undo/redo (for moves and scales)
  • SEO improvements (page title changes)
  • Forum improvements

March 19 - New Showhome Sites

25 March - The One with the SEO Guide

  • New SEO guide added to the moonfruit.com portal
  • 'Viewport' added to make sure the Editor is always available onscreen
  • Improvements to W3C compliance and some tidy up
  • Making Title tags more prominent in the HTML
  • 'Show Homes' page and links added to moonfruit.com
  • Addition of 10 new templates
  • Improvements to multiple selection with changes to using the Control or Shift keys

28th March - Changes to the Way HTML is Generated

  • H1 tag - The first Title text box on a page is now rendered as an H1 tag
  • H3 tags - Text boxes with only bold text and less than 120 characters will be converted to an H3 tag
  • No more boxes around text - The HTML now ignores text box dimensions
  • New "View HTML Version" on the Page Settings panel

2 April 2008 - Bug Fixes and Site Updates

  • Blurry thumbnails for the pop-up gallery, slide show and image effects fixed
  • Editor (File Manager and other panels) no longer hides in the top-left corner
  • Users can now set up Google Analytics with the new tracking code - the 'ga.js' tracking code
  • New SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) guide added to the moonfruit.com site

1st May - The Big One

Domain name module

  • Register and manage domain names through Moonfruit.com (good prices!)
  • Free domain name vouchers bundled with SiteMaker Standard, Plus and Max accounts

New File manager!

  • Larger, clearer and easier to use interface
  • User folders - create folders and organise your files
  • Integrated multiple file uploader (no more Javascript popup window or Java applet)
  • Native support for PNGs & GIFs (including preserving transparency)
  • Rename files and folders
  • Multiple select, delete and move
  • Improvements to SEO (HTML) version of sites (viewable from Edit->Page Settings->View HTML version)
  • Nested navigation list now mimics the Flash Version
  • Better grouping of elements, preserving things like tabular layout and sidebars

AdSense revenue share for SiteMaker Free users

  • Users of SiteMakerFree can sign up with Google to share ad revenue generated by their site
  • For each click on a ad on your Free site, you get 50% of the money
  • So now you get a free site AND free money!

Other stuff:

  • New design templates
  • New backgrounds
  • We've added new PayPal currencies: CZK, DKK, HUF, NZD, NOK, PLN, SGD, SEK, CHF

08 July - Our Summer Release

Free email accounts on Moonfruit domain names

  • Up to 5 mailboxes can be set up on each domain name you order with Moonfruit (purchases & vouchers)
  • Mailboxes can be accessed via webmail or using POP3 or IMAP
  • Each mailbox can have an unlimited number of aliases, e.g. names that go to the same mailbox
  • Or you can set up email forwarding to another email address you already have e.g. gmail, hotmail etc
  • Free Google AdWords vouchers for every subscriber
  • Get up to £50 pounds worth of Google AdWords vouchers with your subscription
  • Use the AdWords voucher to pay for ads on Google to direct traffic to your site
  • See www.moonfruit.com/adwords.html for details

Improved alternative HTML version (how the search engines see your site)

  • The HTML alternative for your site is now much prettier and better organised
  • Go to ('Edit' ->) 'View' -> 'HTML version' in the SiteMaker toolbar to see your HTML pages and navigate through them
  • You can then 'View source' on each of these pages to see your keywords and other meta data in the HTML

Advanced form improvements

  • You can now add a file upload field to your form so users can submit files
  • Files are uploaded to a specific folder of your choice in the file manager

15 September - The One with Social Bookmarking

  • Social bookmarking widgets allow visitors to quickly bookmark the site to services like Digg, De.licio.us, and facebook - see the 'social bookmarking' folder in the File Manger to add one
  • Domain transfers - customers can now transfer domain names to moonfruit.com for use with their SiteMaker site and to benefit from the free webmail
  • New fonts - 20 new fonts added to the graphic fonts selection to enable further customisation of your site
  • The Comments widget now provides 'pages' so that the widget is more responsive when it contains lots of comments
  • Thumbnail images are now larger (144 x144px, up from 100 x100px) - which should improve quality on screen

13 October - Preferred Site Address

  • Addition of the preferred site address allowing choice of one domain name to take priority

20 October - The Small One

  • .co.uk transfers available

11 November - Moonfruit Resellers - a case study

  • Improvements to the reseller products
  • Now even easier to become a Moonfruit/SiteMaker reseller

18 December - Christmas present

  • Google maps integration
  • Add a Google map interface to your site so customers can find you!

So the eagle-eyed amongst you will have noticed that despite releasing a lot of stuff this year, we released more in the first 9 months than we did in the last 3. Never fear, this is not a sign of things to come, nor related to the credit crunch (feature crunch?) , but simply a result of the things we've been working on.

As you will remember we've been promising improvements to the membership and e-Commerce features for some time. Work on both these areas has started and been ongoing for a number of months, but due to the size and complexity of these projects it has and is taking us quite some time to get them ready for you. Like everything in SiteMaker we want to make them powerful and easy, which are usually in opposition to each other as objective!

But bear with us, membership improvements will come in early 2009 as a platform for e-Commerce changes due early Q2.

The SiteMaker Team would like to take the opportunity to thank all our customers for their continued support and wish you a fantastic 2009!