May 9th, 2008
We are constantly striving to find the perfect balance between making sure information is easy to access, and making sure that the focus remains where it should be: on your special moments!
Currently, at the bottom of your wedding website pages you see a number of links. In particular, there are links to how-to articles, demo videos, and other resources to help you learn about how to get the most out of your wedding website. Many of these links are probably extraneous for your wedding guests, so, we are moving to a more lean set of information that will be shown to your guests, while maintaining the easy access to information for you.
We feel this new balance makes sure you can get the information you need about making your own wedding website, while your guests get the information they need about your wedding.
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May 7th, 2008
Today we launched 7 new themes! The first is a cream version of our very popular floral theme. In addition to this one we have several color variations of a new ‘Stripe’ theme. These are simple and modern and follow a number of requests for such themes.
We have a fairly big backlog of requested themes but we are doing our best to get through them as quickly as possible. That shouldn’t stop you from requesting new themes!
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May 5th, 2008
You may have noticed recently that we now have a link for wedding vendors on the bottom of your website. This again was in response to some feedback.
Many of our users have been so impressed with how easy it is for them to make their own wedding website on MomentVille that they wonder what else we can help make easier.
We’ve started listing some vendors that you may find interesting as you are search for things such as wedding invitations, honeymoons, etc. Many of these are online retailers that offer good quality products at discounted prices. (And we all know how great it can be to find great wedding deals!). If you are looking for a wedding related service, please have a look in our wedding vendor directory.
As always, please keep the great suggestions coming!!!
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April 20th, 2008
We have some exciting news to announce today! Starting now, you have new ways to edit your wedding website. This is especially great news for those who are happy to get right into the html itself.
We always try to find a good balance between making things very easy, and allowing you to customize your own wedding website so that it suits you perfectly. Today’s update has 3 big features.
1. Safari users can now use the rich text editor just like IE and FireFox users!
2. You can now use the rich text editor to insert pictures into text elements just like I’ve done below. This means you can put a picture wherever you want in the text. (left, right, center, wherever!). This feature doesn’t allow you to upload photos directly, so you will have to upload them somewhere online first. This can either be to your MomentVille website or to another online photo service. All you need to know is the url of the image you want to use. Have a look at the 2 new buttons highlighted in the image below.
3. You can now edit the html directly within a text element. If you are familiar with html and consider yourself a power user just click on the ‘html’ button in the rick text editor and you will see a pop-up dialog with the html you are editing. This gives you all sorts of control over what you are can do on your wedding website!
Happy wedding website editing!
- The MomentVille Team
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March 27th, 2008
It’s been a few hours since we discovered the spam problem and it is now time to provide an update. It is important to us that we remain open and honest with our users.
The spambots that were attacking us were limited to only a very small number of websites. We have since upgraded our spam filters to use a 3rd party commercial spam fitler that manages millions of comments each day. We expect their filters will perform better and incidents of spam will drop significantly. We have hence re-enabled all posts. If you notice any more spam, please let us know.
We have also cleaned our database of spam guestbook posts. If you are missing any posts please let us know, but only the spam should be gone.
Many of you will ahve received emails again letting you know that you got a guestbook post on yoru website. We apologize for the duplicate. It was a result of reloading the entries without spam.
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March 27th, 2008
A small number of our users have started receiving spam on their websites. We DO NOT find this acceptable and are doing everything we can to stop it.
We temporarily disabled all Guestbook, RSVP and Q&A elements while we update our spam filters to block these new spam bots. We apologize for any inconvenience. We expect to have things back online soon.
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March 22nd, 2008
Today we launched 7 new themes! You can see them at the bottom of our wedding website themes page.
Five of the new themes are ‘floral’ themes. They have a more modern feel and modern colors. Again, these were as a result of requests from our users! We currently have a backlog of theme requests that we are trying to get through as quickly as we can.
Also, it’s worth noting, the layout of the main site has changed ever so slightly. This is only a minor update that will make the main site of MomentVille easier to navigate, so if you are looking to learn how to do seomthing, or are wanting to learn more about the features available to you, it should be easier to find. The best way to navigate is still to use the links at the bottom right of any page.
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March 11th, 2008
At MomentVille we are concerned about keeping things green. That is why our wedding websites are carbon neutral! We are also concerned with making sure things are as easy as possible.
Planning a wedding is a lot of work, and trying to make it even a little bit more green can often seem like a daunting task. A lot of our users have expressed interest in keeping things more green, so we’ve done a review of some green wedding online resources that you may find useful. Our favorite 3 websites are listed below.
Portovert has a great list of green wedding vendors and some excellent articles on things such as eco-invitations.
BluePlanetWedding.com also has a nice list of resources sortable by geography and have recently started a green wedding blog which has been updated quite regualarly for the past few months.
Greatgreenwedding.com has a green wedding blog that gets updates very frequently and has lots of interesting ideas. The main site contains several useful articles aboutwedding favors, flowers, rings, etc.
There are plenty more resources out there but the above three have a good base of information and are often adding new articles which is why we recommend that you check them out!
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March 5th, 2008
Today we launched 6 new themes. They are available for all of our wedding websites. You can check them out on our wedding website themes page.
There are 3 bamboo themes and 3 paisley themes. Again, these themes were at the request of our users. For these two cases, they were particularly requested by our users of Chinese and Indian heritage (respectively) because of the common occurance of those symbols in traditional Chinese weddings or traditional Indian weddings.
You will also notice several smaller changes to most of the existing themes. We’ve spent a bunch of time updating the way we handle themes so it will be easier to add new wedding website themes in the future.
Please keep the wedding website theme requests coming!
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March 2nd, 2008
Many of our users like the current RSVP. Some have said that their guests are keen to know all the details they can, so sharing RSVP responses with everyone is ideal. MomentVille is the only wedding website provider to offer free RSVPs and public RSVPs.
We have also had some requests for private RSVPs. Some of our users would rather not have their guests see who else is coming or not.
So, private RSVPs is a featured we’ve added today as a premium feature. If you would like to have the RSVP responses contained to a private area that only you can see you can now do that by upgrading to a premium website.
Both free and premium websites will now have a ‘RSVP’ link in the user area at the top. This is only visible when you are logged in. By clicking on this link you can see all of the RSVP responses. For a premium website there will be the option each RSVP element on your wedding website public or private. Public RSVPs will have responses shown on the website itself. Private RSVPs will not have responses shown on the website.
Did you know that you can have more than 1 RSVP element on your website? Perhaps you want people to RSVP to a wedding shower and RSVP to the wedding itself?
We have also removed the ‘maybe’ option from the RSVP by default. Responding ‘maybe’ doesn’t really make sense for a wedding, but does make more sense for something like a wedding shower. If you still want guest to be able to respond ‘maybe’ you can do this again by upgrading to a premium website.
In the future we will be adding more ways to customize your RSVP (eg selecting meal choices). The ability to customize the RSVP will be limited to premium websites. We have some other exciting planned features for wedding websites coming over the next few months, so stay tuned!
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