Ok, here is the second map in our series of “Top 10″ wedding maps. You may have seen our first, “Top 10 Romantic Wedding Locations“. Now we’ve got one that is a little out of date, but interesting nonetheless.
So check out our latest map, “Tom (Cruise) & Katie’s Top 10 Pre-Wedding Moments!“.
If anyone has any ideas for other Top 10 lists that might help us get the word out about Wedding Mapper please let us know!
If you have a wedding website and you are a paying customer you now have access to two new options on the code snippet. One allows you to display the title of your map, the other allows you to display the location list.
These two enhancements came at the specific request of a customer, so hopefully others will find them useful.
We’ve just released a performance upgrade that should cause most maps to load quite a bit faster. The speed improvement will be more noticeable on maps that use a lot of images, but I would imagine almost all maps will see a significant improvement regardless.
To see for yourself check out the example map, Margaret and Peter’s Wedding Map
We’ve just changed the custom url logic around to allow people to create custom urls that do not expire. Now, if you include a number in your url the custom url will not expire.
(eg. http://www.weddingmapper.com/margartetandpeter2007)
Custom urls that do not have a number in them will still expire one month after the wedding so that future couples can get their first choice.
We’ve just released two important new upgrades for accounts that have paid to have the ads removed. Now, when you pay to remove the ads from your map you also receive two additional benefits:
1) A custom url for your map.
Now you can choose your own url such as:
http://www.weddingmapper.com/margaret_and_peter
We’ve received quite a lot of requests for custom urls, so we’re excited to get them out there. They are first come, first serve, and, although we expect everyone will be able to get the url that they want, we encourage people to purchase it sooner rather than later to ensure they get the url they want. These urls will be good for one month after your wedding, at which point they will expire so that future couples can get their first choice, as well.
2) An enhanced code snippet.
Now you can include your map in your wedding website in it’s entirety. It will show all photos, provide driving directions, etc., right inside your wedding website.
The best part is that you get both of these enhancements along with an ad-free map and list view for the same low, one-time price of just $9.95. If you’ve already paid to remove the ads, you have the ability to use the enhanced code snippet from the share section on the map page or choose a custom url right now from your account page.
We hope these enhancements make your experience with Wedding Mapper that much better. If you have any problems or feedback please let us know.
And, as always, please help us spread the word to others who are getting married.
To help get the word out about Wedding Mapper I am creating a series of interesting wedding related maps.
Check out the first map in the series here: Top 10 Romatic Wedding Locations Map
This one is based off of this article from about.com, Top 10 Romantic Wedding Locations
We are trying to put together a press release to send out to people in an effort to get the word out about Wedding Mapper. We’ve been seeing some fantastic comments in the various wedding blogs and message forums, but they are a little too casual to include in a press release. So if you’ve had a great experience with Wedding Mapper and would like to help us get the word out then let us know about your experience. You can leave a comment on this blog or email me at jared@weddingmapper.com.
Thanks so much in advance. It’s really a big help.
I’ve just added a few more custom icons to Wedding Mapper. This will probably be the last batch for a little while, but if you have an icon you’d like to see please let us know.
Here are the new icons:
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| Beer Mug | Bouquet |
Camera |
Car (blue) |
Car (red) |
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| Engagement Ring |
Rings |
Shopping |
Synagogue |
Chapel |
We’ve decided to experiment with image ads. The text ads are simply too subtle and are not getting clicked on enough. We will still be using a lot of text ads, though, to see if the difference is worth the added annoyance.
I hope this does not annoy people too much; we tried to keep it as tasteful as possible. If you do find it too annoying we will always have the extremely inexpensive option to remove the ads for just $9.95, which is probably the least expensive price you will pay for anything at your wedding.
The great folks over at screeniac.com have created a very nice screencast of Wedding Mapper. I had intended to create a screencast myself, but I doubt I could have done nearly as good of a job. It’s a very nice demo and actually exposed a few minor issues that I have since cleaned up.
Check it out at:
http://screeniac.com/2007/01/09/weddingmappercom/
You need to click the “Flash Demo” link to view the demo.
