We’ve got another batch of icons up on the site. Based on some requests from users we tried to put together another generic batch to show things like train stations, boats, etc.
Here are the new icons:
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| Boat | Balloons |
Hospital |
Limo |
Train | Umbrella |
If you can’t find an icon that you like please let us know. Also if you have an icon you’d like to use we can help you incorporate it into your map!
Now that the majority of weddings are rolling around we’ve added in some new functionality for the guests under a new section called “Guest Services” when you are viewing your map (will not display when you are editing your map).
Hopefully these two enhancements will help your guests stay up-to-date and more involved with your wedding!
We’ve added in a quick enhancement that we hope will help people with printing. Now you can hide and show different categories of locations on your map. In the Location List, if you collapse a category of locations they will disappear from the map now as well. This way you can have all sorts of locations on your map, including hotels, restaurants, attractions, etc., and if you only want to print a few key locations you can hide the rest of them before printing.
So if you start with a map that looks like this:
And click on the expanded “Hotel” link here:
Your list will collapse:
and your map will look like this (no hotels showing):
If you collapse most of the categories you’ll eventually have a map that looks like this:
We’ve just released the latest improvement to Wedding Mapper’s offering. A lot of people like to get a custom map designed for their invitations. Although you can easily print out Wedding Mapper maps, sometimes people want to make them look more professional and print them on cards to send in their invitations.
The only problem is that your guests may lose the maps you send them between the time they receive the invitation and the wedding day. Well Wedding Mapper has a great solution to this problem. Now, if you have upgraded your account, you can upload any file you want to Wedding Mapper so that your guests can easily download and print the file themselves.
So if you have a pdf file of your custom designed wedding map then you can simply upload that file and your guests will be able to access it and print it straight from Wedding Mapper without bothering you!
We’ve received a number of requests from people who want to add additional links to their wedding map. They want to be able to provide links back to their wedding website, to their registry sites, etc.
We’ve also received requests from people who would like to be able add their email and contact information to their maps so that people coming to their wedding can easily reach them if they have any problems at all.
So we put together an enhancement that allows you to add links, emails, and information paragraphs to your map. The enhancement is available to upgraded accounts. It will allow you to add as many links as you like to your map, giving you complete control over how you would like the links to display.
You’ll find the new link section in the left hand panel of the map. From there you can easily add, edit, delete, and reorganize your links.
We’ve added in the ability to reorder categories so that they appear in the exact order you want. This has been a very frequent request so hopefully people will find it useful.
To reorder your categories simply go to the “Edit Categories” page and drag the categories into the order you want!
Now you can take this Wedding Mapper map:
and turn it into this:
How? Well read on…
For a while now we’ve been keeping an eye out for a great design partner to help people with printing their maps. Although we are constantly striving to improve the printing capabilities of Wedding Mapper, sometimes you need an actual person to make it look right. This is especially true if you will be including your wedding map in your invitations.
Well we think we’ve found the perfect design partner in Distinctive Directions, owned and operated by Amanda Alvarado. I discovered Distinctive Directions while reading the message boards on the Knot. A lot of people who were recommending Wedding Mapper were also recommending Distinctive Directions. After speaking with Amanda at length about her work I realized that Distinctive Directions was the best company out there to create custom designs for Wedding Mapper maps. She is well known for her quality work, with excellent customer service, at great prices.
Within a week we’ve been able to integrate Wedding Mapper into Distinctive Directions order flow. Now, from your account page or from your map page you can get more information about using Distinctive Directions to create a custom design for your Wedding Mapper map.
The best part is that Wedding Mapper customers will be receiving 10% off of their custom design through February 28th! Distinctive Directions already has some of the lowest prices in the industry, and this deal makes it even more affordable. Distinctive Directions may extend this offer beyond February 28th, but they want to see what kind of reaction it gets first. So be sure to lock in your savings by ordering your custom designs now!
Distinctive Directions has extended this offer indefinitely. They’ve been able to shave a little time off their process when they are given a completed Wedding Mapper map to work with. In return for saving them time they are offering10% off on all design work done when they are given a completed Wedding Mapper map.
To take advantage of this great deal just log into Wedding Mapper and click on “printing for your invitations” to learn more and get started working Distinct Directions on your custom designs!
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.
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