Adding AdSense and Other Script Based Items to iWeb Websites

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For all those who are trying to figure out how to add AdSense and other script based content, here is a tutorial on how to do so. You can see this article with graphics and other niceties on my website:
http://keylime.ca/adsense%20on%20iweb.html
For now, here is the text-only version.
The following is a simple step by step how-to for adding script based items to iWeb based websites easily and quickly.
First things first, you need a tool to use for finding and replacing text in numerous files quickly and easily. This one works great, and is free:
http://lonestar.utsa.edu/llee/applescript/simplefindreplace.html
This tutorial will show you how to add AdSense banners--but you could easily add any sort of script based content with the same instructions.
1. Open your iWeb project.
2. Click on the Inspector. Click on the Page properties icon.
3. In the Header Height field, increase it enough to add your AdSense banner. The banners are of various sizes. You should know this value from when you generated your AdSense code.
4. Add a Text item to your page. Make the text item as large as your banner.
5. Add a unique string to your text item, such as mywebsitenamegoogleads. It is vital that the text string be unique and not be anywhere else in the page. The string must be the same in each text item on each page you will be adding AdSense banners to. You can center the text, but no not vertically center it. Vertically centering the text will turn the text item into a PNG file as opposed to a document division!
6. Cmd-Click the text item and drag it into the header. Cmd-Clicking an item allows you to move it into a footer or header.
7. Repeat steps 1 through 6 for each page you will be adding AdSense banners to. Take note: Once you lay out your page header, you can select all of it, copy, and paste it to each page. iWeb remembers its original position, so you don’t have to move it around!
8. Publish your site to a folder. It is against the terms and conditions of .mac to have ads on your .mac account, so you will have to put your site on a regular server.
9. Open Simple Find and Replace.
10. Drag and drop the folder you published your website to into the target field in Simple Find and Replace.
11. Put your unique string from step 5 into the Find field.
12. Put your AdSense code into the Replace field.
13. Click Start Replacing.
14. Put your website online. That’s it!
I hope Apple decides to integrate a tool to make this easier!
  Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

Answer 1

Should be the same process whether you publish to .Mac or any other host. You're dealing with the same files in either case. Just follow the directions and you'll do just fine! Good luck!
James
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