Blog with iWeb

Is it possible to blog in iWeb and use it in your Muse website?

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Sanjit

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Why blog with iweb

o.k. since i am new to this iweb thing and blogging with it i have a question. what is the benefit of blogging with iweb? i feel like there are so many downsides to it and i am paying for this service. I could be using another blog service for free or little money and have it not be this difficult. i just feel like i am so loimited and i feel like my blog does not even work on my friends computers who are PC users and run internet explorer.
some things i am having challenges with:
* putting HTML in my blog. (i know it can be done but i'm told if you modify the blogs HTML code then i can cripple my commenting system)
* changing colors of certain text in my template
*adding photos to my blog, they seem to need to be made small before i import them otherwise i will use up my space rather quickly.
* (this is more of a question) can i install .png files into my blog or does it have to be a .jpg? i would like to insert files that do not have the white bkg and the only way i can do that is if it is a .png file.
those are just some of my issues for now. am i right? are these legitimate issues wth using the blog with iweb? or am i just crazy ...LOL! :P
if there are easy ways to fix these issues i would soooooo love some help as a new iweb user.
Also another thought was could some of these issues be fixed with leopard when it comes out? does anyone have any idea?
that's all i have for now. i will post again if i can thing of more questions.

Hi Dena,
As Old Toad mentioned, iWeb can be used for many kinds of web sites. The link he gave is a great place to get a sense of what can be created. Blogging is one of the components of iWeb and blogs can be easily created. Yet, iWeb might not meet the needs of everyone.
If one does not want to spend time under the hood of iWeb, tweaking the html, trying to create things that iWeb does not automatically do which other blogging sites and software provides, then there are other services and software available that are designed specifically and exclusively for blogging. One does not need to get "under the hood" (though most of them allow it), If you like to tinker with the "innards" you will be able to tweak your iWeb blogging site or any other of the iWeb components to meet most of your needs.
iWeb is good at what it does, in fact it is very good at what it does. It just might not meet the needs of everyone. It is still a work in progress that provides the non html, css coder, or professionally trained designer, the chance to get on the web without the previously required knowledge of html, css etc.

Use iBog created blog with iWeb created web site?

Just began playing around with iWeb, and so far, like it a lot. But I already have a published blog using iBlog. Can I import that existing blog? Do I just link to it?
Thx,
G5 Dual 2.7 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

You can't import your iBlog created blog into iWeb, but you can create a link to it from one of your iWeb pages.

Date in a blog with iWeb 3.0.3

iWeb 3.0.3, when I selected blog, no date appears over the title and when I publish on MobileMe, the following appears on the page: TypeError: 'undefined' is not a function with a clear button. I use a french OS X system. Any idea?

Same problem here.
iweb
Lion OSX
Macbook 13''
(as well as question mark on quicktime movies on safari and black screen on youtube, what is going on with apple, my mackbook is turning useless)
Any solution?

Can't publish my blog with iweb

I have a .mac account and prepared my first ever webpage, a blog and a photopage on the same site. Everything was more than easy, but then I couldn't publish it. The response says: Publisher Error : An error occurred while publishing file “/Web/Sites/iWeb/mylife/Blog”. I tried File/Publish All to .mac and got the same reply. I put it also to a folder (File/Publish to a folder) but I don't know what to do with it from there.
I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, or what I could try, help!

I got it fixed, thanks to help from another post. I had created my own nav bar and the links were to .Mac not .Me. What finally fixed it for me was:
1. Publishing all to Mobile Me.
2. Fixing my links so they linked to the .me pages.
All comments work as expected.
If others are using a CNAME this would add a new dimension to the problem. My personal domain is simply Domain Forwarding so it seems to be O.K
What a mess!
Kurt

Scripting blogging in iWeb

Hi!
I am using iWeb '09 to update my website, hosted on MobileMe using a custom domain. I have been using Posterous for blogging, as I liked it's update via email feature quite a lot. Now I am planning to move from Posterous to an iWeb blog. The only thing stopping me is mobile posting. As my Mac is always on and connected to the Internet, I'd like to implement the same email posting feature Posterous has using AppleScript and Mail.app rules.
Up until now I have been able to write a script that takes the needed info out of the message and parses it a bit. The thing I do not know is how to make a new blog entry in iWeb with AppleScript. Here's what I scripted:
on performmailaction(theData)
tell application "Mail"
set theSelectedMessages to |SelectedMessages| of theData
set theTitle to (subject of theSelectedMessages)
set theEntry to (content of theSelectedMessages)
try
set theImage to every attachment of content of theSelectedMessages
end try
set mailbox of theSelectedMessages to mailbox "Completed rules"
end tell
end performmailaction
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "[blog]"
set theReadyTitle to theTitle
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "#end"
set theReadyEntry to first word of theEntry
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}

I believe if you are able to use the script to update vie email when you open the blog with iWeb those additions will not be in iWeb and if you publish from iWeb it may wipe out what was added earlier.
Why not just keep the Posterous blog since it does everything you want and embed it into one of your iWeb pages as in this example:Embed a Site Within an iWeb Page.
That's what some of the serious blogger recommend. This way if, for some reason, you drop your MMe account or want to move to a 3rd party hosting server you won't lose all of your blog entries. They are stored on the MMe server and will be lost if you drop the account or move.
Just some food for thought.
OT

How to migrate sites and blogs made with iWeb 1.1.2 into MobileMe?

How to republish or migrate sites and blogs made with iWeb 1.1.2 into MobileMe?
I can not find instructions for that, and when trying to publish into .Mac, I consistently get an error message. The sites would look better as they are, but ...

tortuga wrote:
How to republish or migrate sites and blogs made with iWeb 1.1.2 into MobileMe?
If you're referring to last year's transition from .Mac to MobileMe, your iWeb websites are still available at the same URLs and have also been given a new URL at (www.me.com). For example, (web.mac.com/emily_parker/) will work as will (web.me.com/emily_parker)
tortuga wrote:
I can not find instructions for that...
I don't think there's anything special you need to do, but anyway, this Apple doc may be of interest:
_dotMac to MobileMe transition FAQ_
tortuga wrote:
...and when trying to publish into .Mac, I consistently get an error message.
What's the exact text of the error msg? This Apple doc may help:
MobileMe: Troubleshooting iWeb publishing issues
Also, MobileMe live chat support is now 24/7 — see this announcement.
By the way, your Public Profile indicates you're running Mac OS X (10.5.4) — if that's true, you should upgrade to 10.5.8 via  menu > Software Update...

IWeb 08 blogging with slide shows

Help!
I am using iWeb 08 in a fairly generic way. After seeing what her sisters have all been able to accomplish with blog sites such as blogger.com she wants to be able to include a slide show in her blogs. 2 questions:
1. I have figured out how to export photos from iPhoto to quicktime. It creates a simple but usable slideshow in .mov format. I then open iWeb, click on the "entries" screen, create a new blow, then drag/insert the quicktime movie into the "placeholder" image to replace it in the blog. The problem is that when i go to my website, which opens up to the home page that shows all of the recent blogs with the most recent one first, the embedded quicktime file doesnt play. It only shows the first frame. When i click on it, it takes me a page with just that one blog on it, and then the mov file works, and i get my slideshow. What do i need to do make the .mov slideshow work in the home page. My wife wants the slideshow(quicktime movie) to work on the main page...).
2. Second question. The quicktime slideshow is pretty generic. Sites like Picturetrail let you create pretty cool slideshows (flash files i believe) and then embed the html in your own blogsite ie blogger.com etc. I played around with embedding the html in iWeb and couldn't get it to work? A) can i embed a flash html in an iWeb blog, and B) will have the same problem of it not working on the homepage screen..
Sorry for the long post. Huge brownie points if i can get it to work, not to mention less grief for switching to a Mac
Thanks for your help!

I have batch renamed all my assets, deleted all my slideshow thumb nails and replaced them so none of the images in my slide show have the same name as other assets anymore. I am sure this is what caused the problem. I am about to reupload my website, so you won't be able to see the problem anymore (I sincerely hope).
The problem wasn't always reproducible. To be able to reproduce the bug you need 10 different slideshows (all with images called page_1.jpg, page_2.jpg etc with more than 50 pages in some of the galleries, and then you have to upload the slideshows, make changes to the website,upload again, then make more changes to the website, then go to all the galleries one at a time with the thumbnails visable then uncheck the show thumbnails box for all the different slideshows and upload again.

Shorten Blog URL with iWeb 09?

With iWeb 09 is there an easy way to shorten the auto-generated site structures for blogs, yet?
From -> http://www. domain.com/blog/blog/blog.html
To -> http://www. domain.com/blog
If I publish to a folder and upload only the blog page directory, some navigation links are broken, and there I have to duplicate the blog.html file to rename as index.html. This is tedious for every blog update.

I just wrote an article about this. Check it out!
http://www.ehow.com/how4917516create-shorter-urls-iweb-mobileme.html
Note that the /Sitename/ part of your URL will still be there, unless you do some further tinkering. If you do, unfortunately you'd lose the blog comments feature.
If you don't care about blog/photo comments or RSS feeds, then it's easy enough to remove the /sitename/ part of your URL entirely. Simply open your /sitename/ folder in iDisk, and paste the contents into the parent directory (the "Sites" folder.) Of course, this won't work when you have multiple websites on iDisk.

Protect blog made with iweb without using .mac to publish?

Hello:
I am getting to know my Mac and love it. I have domains and publish my first page with iweb. Everything works fine. However I wish to password protect my blog to only be seen by my familiy and friends. I know how to set it up, but it said it is not working if you do not publish to .mac. Now I don't want to do anything illegal here, but is there a way to still password protect my page or just my blog or am I out of luck. I like to have my own domain and also want to redirect to my business that way.
I am happy to hear any suggestions. Maybe I can even ad my .com website to .mac, but for now I do not know why I should other than to password protect my page. I have dreamweaver and would like to learn how to do web design as well.
Thanks for the help.
binchen
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Have you tried using iWeb to publish to your website to your domain? It's built in with '08. I don't really have a lot of faith that it would help, but it's not publishing to a folder. It's publishing directly to your website. Give it a shot.
The other option here is to mask your domain, probably not your first choice but you could do it this way. You could publish all of your stuff to .mac and then route your domain to the .mac website. Then to make it even more appealing, you can mask the .mac web address with your own domain. Thus giving you all the functionality of .mac without the .mac web address. Literally your users can just type in your domain and it will take you to it your site as it would and they would never have to know you were using .mac.
This is beyond my expertise and I have not tried it, but it is possible, I know many people that have done it. If you're interested, just do some research and it'll happen for you.

Firefox doesn't know what to do with iWeb blog pages.

Why?
Firefox doesn't know what to do with iWeb blog pages. All the entries are missing, and in their place are the words, Blog Summary Widget. Is this a problem with just my version of Firefox (like maybe I'm missing a plug-in or something?) or is this a failure on iWeb's part?
http://web.me.com/gomerpyle/MonarchRenovations/Before_and_After/Before_andAfter.html

There have been some quantum leaps in design and usefulness between FF1 and FF3. I'm not surprised that FF1 can't handle it. Download the latest FF for Mac and/or Windows here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html

Problem with iWeb 09, after the publication in a local file.

*Subject: problem with iWeb 09, after the publication in a local file, i can't see my blog, nor my photos, but before that all was working fine.*
After the publication in the local file, I see all my pages, but there is a mistake on the page "Blog" where I just can see the top of my page, it's cut and I can't see it entirely, so I can't see the inputs while I should see 3 news or 3 inputs. And it's the same for the "Photos" page where the page is cut, I can't see the photos, and it's just written : "Put the slide show and subscribe".To finish, when I want to activate the comments, it doesn't work neither.
Please help me.

I want to activate the comments, it doesn't work neither.
The comments feature is only available when you publish to the MobileMe server, so I don't think you can use it when you publish to a local file.

Strange issue with iWeb site, please help

Hi everyone,
Until recently, I've been keeping an iWeb blog of my time in India. Nothing too complicated, just stories and photo albums. However, recently something strange has happened, and the website is no longer displaying correctly. It looks fine in iWeb, and when I publish it in a folder and open it locally, everything is fine. However, after uploading it to my hosting provider, it looks like this:
http://www.egbertopreis.nl/India/
(screenshot of what it looks like here: http://egbertopreis.nl/website_screenshot.PNG )
This is a screenshot from iWeb of what it should look like: http://www.egbertopreis.nl/iWeb_screenshot.png
I'm using the 'darkroom' theme, but as you can see, something is clearly wrong. It is not displaying the menu correctly, the layout looks strange and it isn't loading any of the articles. The other pages are accessible if you navigate there directly, but there you have the same problem.
It looks like, for some reason, the CSS and javascript elements cannot be loaded, although I have no idea why this might be the case. They are all just static files, and it worked fine until about a week ago.
Although I'm an IT professional, I have literally no idea what could cause a problem like this. I went with iWeb because I wanted to use an 'easy' solution and not over-engineer something for once
Usually what I'd do in a situation like this, is just purge the whole site and re-upload it. However, since I'm traveling around, I don't have fast internet access anywhere and the site is now so large that it would take forever to completely re-upload. This is also the reason why I can't troubleshoot it properly myself...
Any help (or even words of encouragement :-)) whatsoever would be extremely welcome. Thanks in advance!
Message was edited by: Heliode
Edit: Forgot to mention what I already tried myself;
- deleted the HTML and XML files and let iWeb do 'publish changes'. Everything was re-uploadeded, but issue remained.
- Deleted the 'Scripts' folder on the remote host, and manually re-uploaded from locally published folder. No effect.
- Tried randomly changing layout items in the hope that any potentially corrupted files might be overwritten after publishing. No effect.

Hi Roddy, thanks for your reply. It wasn't just me though; a lot of other people from back also reported the same issue. I was also getting the same thing from behind a wired connection. You can still see and experience the issue yourself if you look here.
I've since 'resolved' the issue by getting a .Mac trial account. A friend helped me move the whole blog over there, where the site works as it is supposed to:
http://web.me.com/eggmeister/India/
Therefore the issue has to be with the hosting. Right now I'm suspecting it might be some obscure configuration issue with the hosting company's server. Maybe something like too low a setting for Apache's 'MAX REQUESTS'. This might cause issues with all the javascript going on in the iWeb pages, loading elements back and forth. I'm in contact with the hosting provider, and will let you know what I find. Might be useful for future reference.

Moving wordpress blog to iWeb

I am building a site right now with iWeb 09. Is it possible to import old content from a basic wordpress template to my new iWeb page? If so, are there instructions online about how to do so? I am having a difficult time finding anything. Thanks in advance.

iWeb can't import anything. A wordpress blog is a lot more flexible than an iWeb blog. I would keep it and either link to it from iWeb or put it in an iframe on an iweb page.

Launching my Business' Website with iWeb '06

I'll try to keep this brief. Here's where I stand thusfar:
1.) I am putting together my small business' startup website using iWeb 06, due to its ease of use, having everything I need to make a nice startup site (particularly for my portfolio, blog & podcasting) & ability to update easily. However this WILL be a company site, so I need to find hosting besides mac.com.
2.) I own my domain names through Godaddy.com. I do have it set up right now to forward these addresses to my mac.com site.
3.) I need to add HTML code onto my site so I can have an opt-in list for those that want my newsletter.
4.) Eventually I will be selling my own products on my site, which I plan to use Paypal to handle payment. But I need a digital delivery system for my products.
I know there are many out there that have some great suggestions about programs & services that are ideal for the mac. Any info you could offer would be GREATLY appreciated. I am starting this up on a shoestring so money is a factor, however I see this as an investment & am willing to trade cash for ease of use (basically, if it's easy to use I'm willing to spend the cash on it).
Thank you

Hey, thanks for your quick and helpful answer!
I wasn't sure it could be done with iWeb, since I tried to do it with my godaddy hosting package, and their off-the-rack website builder didn't allow for html code to be pasted. guess, iWeb allows for that.
My webdesigner told me, iWeb wasn't suitable for professional business websites (video & audio files, newsletters, autoresponders, password protected members' area, the works), only for granny sharing her fotos with her family... seems, he was wrong
thanks again,
Orlando

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