You can easily create a header across all pages of your site, by “locking” any content block.

Here’s how:

1) In the Add Elements page within your MoFuse dashboard, create the content block for your header.

2) On the Site Layout page, lay this element at the very top of your mobile site.

3) Still on the Site Layout page, click the pencil icon for the content block element. This opens a quick edit ability.

4) Select Yes for “Lock as Header?”

Congrats! You’ve now created a content header throughout your mobile website. You can unlock or replace this header at any time from the Site Layout page.

A great application of this feature that we see frequently: Use a content block to lock an image or text link to a page of site with a lead gen  form for event registration, newsletter sign up, contact form, or even member donations.

You can now copy any site, using an existing mobile site inside your account.  This feature has been in beta, but is now ready for all your site duplication needs, and is perfect for …

…creating mobile sites that have a similar look and feel
…launching identical ad landing pages for campaign testing
…easily building out multiple full mobile sites from an original “template”  you have created
…rapidly deploying mobile sites, for example micro sites attached to a directory listing

What Copies Over (almost everything):

• Site Logo (unless you override this by uploading a new logo on this page)
• All CSS
• Forms
• Elements, exactly as they are laid out on your mobile site
• RSS feed settings (GUI and post settings)
• MoFuse Social Sharing settings (Twitter, FaceBook, Email a Friend)
• Site Settings features
  • Custom text on fixed link navigation
  • Search setting
  • Copyright
• Google features including Google Analytics tags, WebMaster verification, & Google Mobile Checkout ID

What Doesn’t Copy Over: Ad tags, because you probably want this to be unique for each site.

How to Use the Site Duplication Feature:

1. When launching a new site, fill in the blanks as usual.
2. At the bottom of this page, just before clicking “Launch” , choose an existing mobile site in your account from the “Duplicate a Site” drop down menu.
3. Simply replace or change anything that has been copied over as desired, such as Copyright, Elements, GA tags, etc.

* A quick update here! We’ve heard you loud and clear on Google’s duplicate content rules. We couldn’t agree more that you should publish unique content on all of your mobile websites.

The key idea behind the copy-a-site feature is that you can easily duplicate the format of one mobile site and carry it over to a brand new mobile site. We allow you to duplicate your content as well, but it’s crucial to ensure that the content is, overall, unique from site to site so that your mobile sites get indexed appropriately.

It’s easy to add videos to your mobile site.

All you need to do is grab the URL for the video, and insert the video URL to your MoFuse site in the appropriate field of an Image element or a content page or block.

Make sure you grab the correct link for your video:  On YouTube, for example, click “Share” to grab the URL of the video you want to add to your mobile site.  (Don’t use the URL for entire YouTube web page.)

You can even add a YouTube channel to your mobile site in the same way. To see an example of this in action, visit the mobile site of Martha’s Vineyard Radio: http://mvyradio.prohost.mobi

The great thing about using YouTube is not just that it is free, but YouTube also will detect mobile visitors accessing your video and display the mobile version for their device.

Jump! It’s a New Site Feature

Do you have many pages on your site? If so, you might want to add a Jump Menu.

By adding this new feature to your site, your mobile site visitors can easily navigate, or jump, to pages of the mobile site, using a drop down Jump Menu.

This is a great option if you have a lot of pages on the site, or specific content like lead gen forms that you want your users to easily get to, without having to scroll through layers of text and links.

Adding a Jump Menu to your site is easy! Just like our Site Layout tool, you can drag-and-drop elements that you want to place in the Jump Menu from the left to the right column. Users also have the option of changing the color scheme and adding a search box.

This feature is a natural fit for anyone with a deep mobile site. Try and tell us what you think!

We just finished launching the latest version of the search feature for your mobile sites. We’ve been rolling out the upgrade over the past week in pieces, and it’s now complete!

This version includes much better results with improved relevancy and it is fast! So fast that we’re showing you how long it took us to find your results!

This release also has some CSS changes to the search results page. They are minor changes that shouldn’t impact many, if any, of our users who have customized the CSS of their search results page. We recommend you check and if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact support.