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!
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.
