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| Moonfruit Site Builders Get Interactive Toolkit Moonfruit has released product updates to enhance interactivity and social networking. The tool kit is available at no cost or on a subscription service and allows virtually anyone to quickly and easily design, build and manage their own interactive, graphically rich website. The product updates gives users access to three new features, 'Comment', 'Mail to a Friend' and member management tools. The release of the new tools is the latest in a series of upgrades that have been released in the past 6 months and follows the addition of a scaleable, multimedia video player that site builders can add to their sites in order to play video and music. Further updates are due to be announced in the next few months. Comment The comment widget lets site builders enable far greater user generated content and interaction on sites, which will keep people coming back for more. • Key benefits: - Visitors can post comments that are visible to everyone; - Several 'comment' widgets can be added to one page and given titles reflecting the topic e.g. 'what do you think about this video?'; - Comments can be checked before they are shown or deleted if inappropriate; - Comments can also be published to an RSS feed, which means that visitors can sign up to the feed and receive updates when new comments are added. Mail to a Friend The mail to a friend feature gives all users a marketing tool they can put on websites which encourages people to spread the word about their site. • Benefit: - Visitors are able to pass the site address on to friends and contacts. Site Membership Every new website built is set up so that visitors can 'join' the site and get a username and password. • Benefits: The site builder can: - Create 'members only' pages; - Set edit rights on pages for certain members to allow collaborative working/contribution; - Allow only members to contribute content e.g. comments; - Create member mailing lists to update people with changes, new pages, etc. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Computing News :: home page |