Both the links embedded directly on your site will be published in the HTML as will the snippets inserted in the HTML Snippet widget.

Can you explain further what you are trying to achieve as I don't quite understand your comments about visible links?

Thanks - Comdot

If viewed in html version the links are clearly visible.

If I do not get a positive reply from IHA or the others then I am going to have to start learning html and css again from scratch.

This is ridiculous.

Obviously flash sites do not have the ability to show visible links to whatever automatic means these advertising companies have at their disposal. I am going back to basics...but I will be looking for a rebate from moonfruit.

I only renewed a 5 weeks ago.

The first year was not a problem because i was not pro-active in the marketing of my site. Now I am trying to actually make it work for me I am having all these problems.

I did not realise until recently how many problems could be caused by trying to increase the profile of my site.

Andy

I'v tried all your links and they work fine in IE7 & 8 and FF3.0 & 3.5. To view these links the visitor must be running FP 10 in their browser. As far as we can tell the HTML Snippets you have inserted are set up correctly. Without knowing the Flash Player version, Browser type or version it's difficult to say why they cannot use the link. But if their browser version and Flash Player version are up-to-date then they will have no issue in using these links.

As for being picked up by the Search Engine bots, you could simply add the links directly to your page without the HTML Snippet widget. This would ensure that the links are published in the HTML so they would be picked up by the Search Engines. If all you want to do is add a link to your page, the HTML Snippet widget is probably over-kill. And as you have discovered not assisting SEO.

So I would certainly reconsider removing the snippets and just adding text links to those sites.

Thanks - Comdot

Apart from Arial Black which we are still working on all other fonts should be OK. They havent changed for some time so there shoulldn't be an issue with quality. As for linking title text we cannot create links on Graphic fonts. However, a good work around is use an image map over the top of the Title box. You can then link that image map to wherever you want.

Thanks - Comdot

However you must also remember that this widget merely sits on top of your flash page, not within it, and as such does not feature in the in the html version of your page, you know the one you get if flash is not enabled like on a works computer. It is this version of your page that is visited by remote bots to index your contents in search engines, and presumably searches of your site by affiliates bots.

Most affiliates give you the option of copying a text link, so a way around might be for you to create your text link, then also insert your html widget link and place it above the text link. In this way any bots will see the text link and index it.

Hope this helps.

Am I alone in feeling frustrated about the workings of these potentially fantastic little additions?

I have a B&B website and several links inserted into my home page, but I still keep getting emails from my advertising partners saying that the link is not there.

It is clearly visible, but they do not physically visit the site. They use electronic means such as bots to find them and report back.

Why are they not working?

I have recently lost priority listing on three site because they cannot find the links.

All I want to do right now is transfer all of my site into another host that allows actual html editing.

Pulling my hair out.

Andy.

Am I alone in feeling frustrated about the workings of these potentially fantastic little additions?

I have a B&B website and several links inserted into my home page, but I still keep getting emails from my advertising partners saying that the link is not there.

It is clearly visible, but they do not physically visit the site. They use electronic means such as bots to find them and report back.

Why are they not working?

I have recently lost priority listing on three site because they cannot find the links.

All I want to do right now is transfer all of my site into another host that allows actual html editing.

Pulling my hair out.

Andy.

Also it would be handy if titles could have links.

Rick

I've sumitted a request to the development team on the font sizing in Global Design Settings. Can't see why we can't offer that but it does need to be discussed.

As for losing those settings on a new page, which toolbar did you use. I've tried it and it appears to working perfectly. The new page title is in the new font as is the body font. And further details on this would help, thanks.

- Comdot

I'm not quite sure what you mean by tally results but you can, with the advanced form use the Editor to download the submissions in CSV format so you can then collate and analyse the results.

Hope that helps.

- Comdot

hth

Also the global title font setting doesn't work when you insert a new page, only when you insert a title font box. (Unless I'm missing something here.)

You are welcome to add your requirement to our Wishlist which will be reviewed and prioritised for future development if feasible.

Regards,

Scott

We do provide a sitemap file as Scott highlighted above. That sitemap will contain all pages that you have listed as visible to the public. This is not new and has been in use for at least 2 years now. Our software has been publishing site content into the HTML site pages for many years now. We were well aware of the limitations of Flash being read by search engine bots and created a script to scrape all content and publish it and this has been working successfully for our entire customer base. Many of our customers enjoy top rankings in their categories, which is down to their hard work and some of the tools and features we provide to enable SEO on our Flash based sites.

We also place a robots.txt file on the site but the only folders that the file instructs the bots not to search are those containing the Flash software - which would provide no content for them and only raise an error. So bots are not blocked what-so-ever from reading website content.

You may wish to read our SEO guide (available under Help when logged in) or on the main moonfruit.com site, and you may also wish to check our many blog articles on SEO on the Moonfruit Lounge. This will give you a good introduction to what we do for you and what you can do for yourself.

The key things to note are that: while SEO is important, Content is King; SEO can take time - but patience will be rewarded; there are millions of sites added to the Internet every day so to make yours stand out requires good content, incoming links from popular sites and doing some SEO work to help the search engines locate your site and then index it.

Hope that helps.

- Comdot

http://www.standrewstaxis.co.uk/sitemap.xml

Scott

Thanks for the suggestion!

Chuck

Fair point. We found using an alternate colour e.g. blue, highlight, copy or cut and once done just revert background colour to black. But we've raised a bug to correct this, although it's been this way for a while I'm thinking so it will be one of those bugs we try to fix when we can squeeze it in. But it has been logged.

Thanks for the feedback.

- Comdot

If there was any way to either create a setting where we can change the highlighting color or just have the background be some sort of gradient that wouldn't typically be used, that would be most appreciated.

As I said, it's minor, but quite a pain when having to select a lot of text.

Thanks!

Chuck

www.njblast.com

Yes, we are aware that the search facility could be better. And it has been on our list but then decided to focus on more pressing issues like membership and toolbar. But fear not - your comment has been noted and I'll pass it along to the Dev team to see what they can do.

Regards - Comdot

Whenever I search the forum posts, if I read someone's answer and want to carry on browsing other responses, I can't.

It just goes back to the main index when you press back. So, if you can't find the answer you're looking for, or want to read multiple answersyou loose the question, have to re-search it and find the post all over again, and then reperat the process!. It just doesn't work propoerly and I've been using it about a year and it's never worked.

Apart from that, Moonfruit is great.

Best regards,

Mike

Katrine

Yes it does need an overhaul and it is one of those widgets we would love to give a make-over or completely rebuild. But the next major project on our agenda is e-Commerce. That said, we have heard your concerns and passed them on to management.

Thanks for your feedback - Comdot

if nothing is addressed re the gallery issue, I think I may reluctantly have to move my sites elsewhere since they rely heavily on image presentation - one is an artist's website & the other is used for web design & it is vital that the images are viewed at their optimum.

Incidentally, this is not meant to be entirely negative - all the recent improvements & bug fixes are all very welcome so thanks for your continuing hard work.

Ok, thanks for listening - I look forward to a response

Katrine

We saw your ticket, and looking at your last reply, it sounded like you had it sorted. I've checked your site, but it looks like you've removed the PayPal page so we cannot test or review the problem.

What we'd suggest is go through the process - it does work, and for a great number of our users - by setting the buttons on a page which you can hide from the menu. Then just reply to our last response to you and give us details of the button, item, page etc so we can investigate.

Thanks

- Comdot

For THREE solid months I have done everything (right, as it turns out) and under advice and instruction from here, PayPal itself, even college IT instructors...

And today, I finally manage to get an active PayPal button, linked to my account, on the site - and it's a damn mess, with all the codes showing, and gets swallowed within a few seconds.

Time to give up me thinks - and delete the site and cancel with Moonfruit. An expensive error, as it turned out.

Email on its way explaining the confusion. You can transfer out a domain without release. However, we cannot currently provide Zone Management (pointing of A-records) for indidvidual domains. We just don't have the ability at present to provide an interface for this but it is in the pipeline.

But the bottom line is, based on your comments in the first post, yes you can transfer out individual domains.

All details are in the email.

Thanks and apologies for the confusion.

- Comdot

--- comdot 

thats great thanks for your reply

Email on its way explaining the confusion. You can transfer out a domain without release. However, we cannot currently provide Zone Management (pointing of A-records) for indidvidual domains. We just don't have the ability at present to provide an interface for this but it is in the pipeline.

But the bottom line is, based on your comments in the first post, yes you can transfer out individual domains.

All details are in the email.

Thanks and apologies for the confusion.

- Comdot

We weren't aware there was a problem with webmail. We'll test this out and see what we can find.

Thanks - Comdot

Thanks

I think he's going to ask PinkPigIllustrations for 27 vouchers after he's made a few doppels :o)

HEY - Dakukuu! Folk are just winding you up, pay no attention.

If I was you though, I would have asked a mod to quietly delete the post. (Or change your name the next time you go off on one!)

All the best.

And you want folk who come to your site to club together for £27 to upgrade the site? How do I get the feeling that no-one who donates will be told when you reach the £27 mark.

I didn't know your name was mark - that was just a lucky guess!

Does this happen with one site in particular or all your sites? As explained above we have no known issues at present around menus not working. So if you could contact support, we can see what software and app versions you are running, establish which site in particular you are having problems with and inspect your site for anything obvious.

Thanks

- Comdot

That said, it works OK on my machines and am waiting on confirmation as to his IE version

Would really appreciate a rapid response as it is costing me and my Clients dearly.

Many thanks - Ian

We are working on that. The WMode we use to support the HTML Widget does some rather odd things. We have a bug fix for this ready to go out along with keyboard fixes within the next week. That is if all testing goes to plan.

So bear with us and we should be able to wrap a few bugs in one release.

Regards - Comdot

This is the same for HTML Snippet for Google maps and for Google widgets.

Any ideas as to how I can get the map to load withint my site ?

We are doing our best. If you dislike IE, could we suggest FF. The latest version 3.5, should not have the problems of IE or the keyboard issues of Chrome.

As soon as we find a fix for this issue we will notify all customers.

Thanks - Comdot

I have just switched over to IE which is such a pile of poo that I can't bear it either.........OK, rant over.....

Caroline

Your websites and account are all fully functional although your account is due on 22nd October. You have three domains you should have renewed when you got our reminder email for each. Two emails were due October 6 and one yesterday (October 19). If you log into moonfruit.com, go to Domains, you will see a renew button under each of these domains. If you take action today then you should be able to renew these without too many problems.

I can see that you did contact us on the 16th to which we replied with information on your domain sarahjaneadams.com which needs amending with GoDaddy. While you may think that your domain is set up correctly, doing an NSLOOKUP provides evidence that it has not been set up correctly:

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\walt.GREEKATTIC>nslookup sarahjaneadams.com

Server: mimas.greekattic.local

Address: 192.168.2.4

*** No address (A) records available for sarahjaneadams.com

C:\Documents and Settings\walt.GREEKATTIC>nslookup www.sarahjaneadams.com

Server: mimas.greekattic.local

Address: 192.168.2.4

Non-authoritative answer:

Name: www.sarahjaneadams.com

Address: 146.101.249.107

If you could contact GoDaddy and ask them to explain why they haven't set the A recocord for root domain and get them to change it for you.

We will confirm these details in a reply to your most recent ticket.

Thanks - Comdot