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| Ease Of Navigation | 9/10  |
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| Value for Money | 10/10 |
| Overall rating | 9.8/10 |
By simonsayers
on 8th Jul 2008
| Ease Of Navigation | 9/10 |
|---|---|
| Value for money | 10/10 |
| Overall value | 10/10 |
 simonsayers's recommendation | |
I don't know where to start. I've only had it a day and my uncle's tribute is like a tranquil haven to me already. It's peaceful, beautifully designed (and I can change the design at the flick of a wrist!). I feel really happy adding in memories, video and pictures and most of all music - it's lovely to do something constructive and to remember good times as I do it and it's so quick and rewarding to build a tribute up; I feel really proud of it now. It's also been a real thrill inviting family members to see it and it was really easy to setup so that they can just add things in to the tribute too - how nice it is to see photos I have never seen before! I can choose to make it completely public if I want but I like just restricting it to family at the moment. One of the best things, though I haven't tried it yet, is that we can also raise money for *any* charity we like and we can see how much we've helped raise on the tribute itself. I only wish we had found this site at the time of the funeral as we could have raised lots of money for cancer research by using this. The best thing? I think that it's so full of heart. You can almost see the blood sweat & tears that must have gone in to building this site and it just has a really genuine feel. It's a registered charity as well so it's free and there are no adverts so it doesn't suffer from the same commercialism that the other sites show. Thank you MuchLoved.
I think the info pages that you see when you first go to MuchLoved.com are a little drab. When I saw how beautiful and flexible the actual tributes themselves are I was really blown away, but these pages, although useful, don't really do it justice. Also although it's very easy to setup a tribute, at first I found the sheer amount of settings that you could change quite overwhelming. Although they're obvious and easy when you properly look at them, I think some extra help pop-ups and more things explaining each control would really help, just for comfort really - basically so you don't worry about breaking anything!
I wanted to setup an online memorial to my Uncle and I tried quite a few memorial sites (including gonetoosoon) but found them all quite tacky, they all just felt like the same old same-old corporate websites but with pictures of a few lillies stuck on. I then tried MuchLoved and was quite stunned by the difference. I think its a bit of an undiscoverd gem really and I would wholly recommend you try it if you want an proper memorial not just a web page with a photo.
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