One of the most exciting new features included in our recent update is the ability for your guests to upload their photos to your website.  We wanted to spend a little more time explaining this great new feature.

Most weddings have 100 or more guests, and most of the guests have digital cameras with which they take lots of photos.  For those of us on the MomentVille team that are married, we know that we would have loved an easy way to get all the best photos from all of our guests.  That is what inspired us to make this feature.

Guests can upload photos to your website through an ‘Upload Photos’ button. This is only found on the new ‘Photo Gallery’ elements.  Recall, you can add as many photos galleries as you’d like, and you can add them to any pages you want.  For instance, you may want to create a page called ‘Your Photos’ and place galleries there for guests to upload photos.

As excited as we are about these feature, however, we have disabled it by default.  If you want your guests to be able to upload their photos, you will need to enable it.  You can enable it in by going to the ‘Settings’ tab, and then to ‘Privacy’. You can read more about how to enable this feature.  

The reason we don’t have it enabled by default is to protect our users.  You enable the feature you must register a security question and answer.  This will help prevent unwanted images.  You can make the question and answer anything you’d like.  For instance, you can ask a question like ‘What is 1 + 1?’ and set the answer to ‘2′.  This would allow all the guests of your wedding website to upload photos easily.  

If you only want a small group of people to be able to upload photos you can set a password by asking ‘what is the password?’ and the answer to ‘apassword’.  After photos have been uploaded to your website you will be notified by email, at which point can you approve or delete the photos.  Only photos that you approve will be shown on your website.

As always, we love to get suggestions about how we can improve our wedding websites!

As you probably noticed, we launch a major update to MomentVille recently.  There are a lot of great new features and enhancements bundled into this release and we think you’ll find some of them very exciting.

In the coming days we’ll write more in detail about each of the major new features, but we wanted to started off with an overview of the changes.

Let Your Guests Upload Their Photos

This is the feature we are most excited about.  Now, unique to MomentVille, you can allow your guests to quickly and easily upload their photos of your wedding to your website.  Now, you can have all the photos in one place!

New Navigation

First and foremost you’ll notice a change to how you navigate around your website.  When you are logged in there is now a green band along the top.  We call this the user area.  You can navigate this manage your website.  The update provides more consistency and content into exactly where you are and where you should go to perform a certain action.  It was based on some great user feedback, so thanks to all those who helped shape this new navigation.

Wedding Vendors

One of the new tabs in your user area is a vendors tab.  If you provide information on when and where you and your wedding are we personalize a list of vendors that are best suited to your needs.  As with all things we do, we are trying our best to be genuinely helpful.  You can recommend and review vendors, and these ratings will affect the vendors shown to other brides in your area. 

New Design

We’ve also updated the design of our homepage and other areas of the site to provide an easier to read and navigate system.  We expect that you will be able to quickly find the information you need in order to build your own wedding website quickly and easily.

 
There are a range of smaller features and enhancements, but these are the majors ones and we’ll talk about each of these in more detail in separate blog posts.