Moonfruit, Click and Invest...
It's been a great few weeks for Moonfruit in the press. Our recent investment was covered by a number of different publications including Tech Crunch and Red Herring. The story was one of the most re-tweeted stories on Tech Crunch Europe that week, which was a great surprise! We had hundreds of messages and retweets - A big thank you to everyone who sent us nice messages of support and congratulations.
This week, we were featured in Kate Russell's Webscape, the website recommendation section in the 'BBC's flagship technology programme', BBC Click. Kate's review of Moonfruit was very poitive, calling it an 'elegant website constructor'. She goes on to say that "Moonfruit makes adding pictures, sound and video so easy!" - our thoughts exactly! 
For the more creative viewers of BBC Click, there's the opportunity to submit your Moonfruit sites with the possibility they may be featured in a future episode, so get creating! To check out the full review, please visit Kate's Webscape page.
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"video so easy"
Whilst acknowledging the strides Moonfruit has made in recent times, its good to see it pushing for more global expansion, and pleasing to see it recognised further in the IT media, I can't help but go back to just the minor [to some people] or major [to me] point about the ease of adding video.
Prior to the recent software update we had the ability to use the Built in video player to show videos streamed from various video host sources. Now however we seem to have taken a backward step and only allow videos from You Tube.
Whilst acknowledging that You Tube is a major player [forgive the pun] in the market there are many other significant hosts of virals. Some of us would like to be able to use these in the built in player.
I know that Moonfruit will say that of course you can add any of these sourced videos using the impressive HTML widget, but I for one don't like the idea of the "Sit On Top" outcome that this gives, particularly where you have lengthy drop down menus that dissappear behind the widget. This doesn't happen with the Built in player.
So perhaps it might be an idea for Moonfruit to invest some of its recently acquired investment to put this right.
Other than my minor rant, I find this product is ideal for numptiesat website building such as myself, and congratulate Moonfruit for continuing to develop such a user friendly website building system
Interesting that the Techcruch article mentions that Moonfruit bought Gandi.net. Whereas on the Gandhi website it says that Moonfruit has been a subsidiary of Ghandi since 2005. So who owns who. Just curious.!
Hi Alan,
Re the video widget, the other providers that were available in the inbuilt video player have stopped supporting the ability for us to use their videos in our player, so we had to remove them. Most video providers now only allow you to embed videos using their particular HTML embed code, as they want to control the look of the player and ultimately the ability to insert their own wrapper/content around it.
We would love to be able to use our native player to show all kinds of video, but most providers (Youtube excluded) don't support this. In fact YouTube itself may discontinue this too in the future, and the native player would only be good for uploaded FLV files (which of course you can always do if you want to use the native player).
Re Gandi.net, it's a long story, but basically the management team of Moonfruit joined up with another senior director from France, raised money and bought both Gandi and Moonfruit into a new holding company. So it was more of a merger than an acquisition by either party. Though after 5 years we've demerged in order to grow separately, though we still have a close product relationship.
I hope that helps!
Joe
aint there sisters lol
I wouldn't have found moonfruit if it wasn't for Click and every word she said in that review proved true! Such a great web builder!
Yeah that is where i found the site..! Via Kate Russell