In our continuing effort to provide you with the information you need, we have added a new bit of information to your wedding website. From now on, in the top left of the ‘user area’ (the bar that appears on top of your website when you are logged in) you will see an indicator showing the amount of storage you have used. This information had not previously been available to users.

Our free wedding websites now come with 50MB of free photo storage. When you upgrade your wedding website to our premium option you will have 500MB of photo storage available! It is very rare for someone to go beyond this amount of storage. (Rest assured, however, if it is needed we will find a way to provide it!)

We’d also like to take a moment and explain a little bit more about how photos work. For the majority of our wedding website users, all they need to know is that they can upload a photo to a Photo element, a Photo & Text element, or a Photo Album element. In essence, that’s the easiest use of photos. Each time you upload a photo it is uploaded to your website account. You can view the photos associated with your wedding website by going to http://www.momentville.com/my/photos (you need to be logged in to see this).  When you delete a photo on your website, it isn’t deleted in your account.  This allows you to reuse the same photo more than once, for example, when using the new image feature in the advanced text editor.  If you want to delete some photos permanently you’ll need to delete them from you /my/photos page.

We’ll be writing more helpful article about photos, widgets, and other features in the coming months.  We’ve  also got some exciting new features for your wedding websites coming down the pipe which we are very excited about (and think you will be too).  Stay tuned and keep the requests coming!

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.

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!

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!!!

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

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.

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.