Features
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| Star rating: |
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| Maximum number of products: |
Unlimited. Can also
build unlimited number of web sites with the SiteMaker Max or 5 or 10
web sites with other products. |
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Payment Gateways: |
PayPal |
| Price: |
£5.99
£8.99
£12.79 |
| Templates: |
Choice of 20 with a choice
of colors for each. |
| Free Trail: |
14 day free trial |
| Stats: |
On page counter available |
| Email Addresses: |
No email accounts provided |
| Domain name: |
A Moonfruit sub domain is
provided. (e.g.
http://yourname.moonfruit.com)
You can buy your own domain name and redirect to the Moonfruit sub
domain. |
| Marketing: |
Search engine submission
and optimization at an extra charge. |
| Support/Help: |
Online help including FAQs,
email support and a users forum. |
| Extras: |
Message board, gallery, music, blog, database. Clipart, animations,
jukebox, clocks, counters, games, graphics, buttons etc. Password
pages. |
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Ease of Use
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| Page Management: |
When you select the design template a number of standard pages are
generated depending on the theme. Extra pages of any type can
easily be added. |
| Edit HTML/Javascript: |
As Moonfriut uses Flash
you can not directly edit the HTML. If you need to add HTML or
Javascript you can upload a file containing HTML and link to it from
the web site. |
| Edit Tags: |
Meta Tags can be changed
using the site admin but these are applied to the site not to each
page. |
| Edit Navigation: |
Navigation is created by
the template you select. Pages can be omitted from the
navigation system. |
| Add/modify product: |
There is no built in
product catalog so each product page must be individually created. |
| Product page layout: |
If you use the directory
database for your products the layout is restricted. If you create
individual pages for each product you can use a different format on
each page. |
| Reports: |
None |
| Inventory: |
None |
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Review Summary
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Moonfruit is a unique online web site builder which uses Macromedia
Flash to create imaginative designs. It is great for music and
membership sites as well as ecommerce.
Although you can design a web site with an unlimited number of
products, I would not recommend that you try and use Moonfruit if you
have a large product line. As the PayPal shopping cart is used a large
number of products would be difficult to manage. If your product
range is quite diverse then you may find Moonfruit to be ideal because
you have a free hand to design the layout of product pages. You
may also wish to build a different web site for each product range and
with Moonfruit you can build 5, 10 or an unlimited number of web sites
for no extra cost depending on which package you purchase. Monfruit
won the "Best Application Award" at the Flash Festival in 2005.
Over 450,000 sites have been built with Moonfruit which have mainly
been small businesses, organisations, DJs and bands.
Because Moonfruit SiteMaker has been built using Flash it lends
itself very well to multimedia so if you are looking to add audio,
video or animations to your site this product is ideal. The user
interface is different to most other online web site builders so it
may take a bit of getting used to. But once you are familiar
with the technology the results can be outstanding. So if you are
looking to build an eye-catching web site and have a small diverse
range of products this is exactly what you are looking for. Take your
14 day free trial at
Moonfruit
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