Importing iWeb Blog to Blogger

It seems impossible to export my iWeb Blog feed and then import it to Blogger... are there any work arounds? iWeb has limitations that aren't good for the blog set up. I'd like to use it for something else and move my blog to blogger. Thanks in advance.

If you want to be able to transfer your blog comments from MobileMe to another blogging platform, there is more support for doing this via the Wordpress blog.

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Importing eBlogger into iWeb Blog...

Good Afternoon,
Is it possible to import previous blogs from eBlogger into a blog made with iWeb? Would like to keep what I've done previously, but, from what I can tell, this may not be a viable option.
Would love your input on this...can it be done? Is it worth it?
Thanks...
TMCinDC

No, you can't incorporate anything into iWeb as it has no import facility.
The best you can do is display your eblogger blog in iWeb using iframe code - place the code into an html snippet and people can scroll the site within your iWeb site.
Other than that, there is nothing that can be incorporated into iWeb.

IWeb Blog - Importing Friendster Blog

I have a blog on Friendster that I'd like to continue in iWeb.
Forgettng iWeb right now, as a first step, does anyone know how to export text AND images from Friendster blog to a file/group of files to my computer? (second step would be to re-arrange and upload to iWeb, but I can't get the first step done!).
Current Friendster export generates an HTM file with all the text, but HTML references to locations on the site where my images are; any automated way to download these from the site, save to disk, and update the reference in the original HTM file?
Thanks
Alan

Before you spend time on this, make sure you know how limited iWeb blogs are. There may be a lot of things you can do with Friendster that you can't do with iWeb.

Iweb Blog ftp or mobile me?

I have just designed a website in iweb that I ftp through godaddy. Took a while to make that decision, but at least I have complete design control! I am doing pretty well and now at the search rankings stage and realize that iweb isn't great at that. Read some of the articles here on search rankings and downloaded the SEO guide and going to take actions with that, and also bought the godaddy search optimisation pack and intend to place the metatags/descriptions etc on my pages.
BUT, I now want to design a second site which is just a blog, which obviously isn't showing up through godaddy, so need to mobileme it. But, with a blog, how do you add the metatags etc to the pages, and are their individual pages for each blog posting? Does mobile me make it easy to go into each file and make the blog searchable? Just not sure whether to just design blog pages myself in iweb rather than their formatted ones, and use godaddy instead?
So, in short - mobile me with formatted iweb blog? or design own blog and ftp with godaddy - which makes the pages more searchable?

Welcome to the discussions. You'll probably have better luck making your blog pages more searchable if you use a dedicated blogging platform — most of them allow tags to be specified.
MobileMe is slow and problems with iWeb's blog are a recurring theme on these forums. For a success story with a non-iWeb blog hosted on WordPress, see this old thread:
To blog or not to blog
And to link to an external blog from iWeb's navbar:
Create a blank internal page titled "Blog" (Actually you can name the page whatever you want.) Then in that Blog page add an HTML Snippet with the following code:
<script type="text/javascript">
parent.window.location = "http://www.yourblogname.com"; // change this to your own URL
</script>
...Once published, clicking on "Blog" in the navbar will immediately redirect to your external Blog page. (Thanks to Cyclosaurus for the code).
SEO is important to you, but iWeb is designed for personal sites and, as such, Apple apparently thinks there's no need for Google. Web-design apps for business sites tend to integrate SEO — Sandvox Pro is an example:
http://www.karelia.com/sandvox/getyour_site_noticed_andb.html

Move iWeb blog to WordPress?

Hello,
I hope someone can help me. I have a blog at a MobileMe site that will soon disappear. The address is web.me.com/tjkk2 . I now have a WordPress blog and would love to move the entries at this old site into the new WordPress one. Is there a way that this can be done? If someone could point me the way forward to do this, I would be most grateful.
Thank you very much.

Not sure if you already went through with copying and pasting your blog posts, but I just found this tool that lets you import your iWeb blog posts and comments to wordpress.
http://www.ragesw.com/products/iweb-to-wordpress.html

Google Analytics Automator breaks iWeb blog comments

Hi
I added a blog for our Small Business site that I created with iWeb. We used Google Analytics and the Automator script add the HTML snippet to track visits on our site. Since I added the blog I realized that after running the GA automator script the "Add a comment" link disappears.
Kinda defeats the purpose of the blog. I have to choose between tracking how many visitors have been on the blog, or visitors posting comments, but I can't have both. How can I fix this and track how many visitors were on our site, and have a blog where visitors can leave comments? Any ideas and solutions would be most welcome. Thanks,
Zoltan

Unfortunately, as you have discovered, inserting Google Analytics into your site requires post editing. This means that you cannot just publish directly to MobileMe from iWeb - to insert the analytics you need to publish to a folder, insert and then place the Blog directly on your iDisk - unfortunately, this way you loose the features that your iWeb blog provides when published directly to MME - i.e. Blog comments.
Do you have an ordinary website too or is it just a blog? If you have an ordinary website, what some people do, including myself, is set up a blog with WordPress, E-blogger, or http://www.posterous.com and link to it from your iWeb site.
If you are just after setting up a blog on its own without a site, then I would suggest you look at http://www.wordpress.com, http://www.eblogger.com or posterous (link provided). You can set up a blog with any template you like and can add entries on line at any time, rather than being limited to updating with the domain.sites file as you are with iWeb.
In WordPress, you can also add as many pages as you like, so you can effectively have a website as well as a blog, so the other alternatives might be a better bet than iWeb and I think they have their own built in analytics too.

IWeb Blog: I would like users to Register....

iWeb Blog: I would like users to Register first in order to post a REPLY.

All you need to do is create your second site in iWeb, move it to the top of lhe list of sites in the left hand pane and publish to your MobileMe account. You must make sure the second site has a different name from the first.
Then setup domain name forwarding to the second site following Apple's instructions here: iWeb: Using your own domain name. You will need to setup forwarding at your domain name provider also.
The key is that the second site (with the domain name) must the top top size in iWeb.
Note: with MobileMe scheduled to be discontinued on June 30, 2012, you might begin looking into obtaining another host. When you do you'll find that both sites will need to have a domain name.
When the time comes take a look at HostExcellence.com. I've had excellent results with it. They have a couple of packages that offer free domain names. And most important they have outstanding 24/7, ear-to-ear customer support.
OT

Iweb blog browsing to slow

Browsing my Iweb blog takes to long to upload... I the size of my blog is not to big and beside small pictures all the rest is just snippet links. So why is so slow to upload???
www.thelinkorama.com

mathieuasselin wrote:
This is ridiculous...What is going on with Iweb..or is me????
The thing is, iWeb and its blog is of minor importance to Apple — if you switch to a dedicated blogging platform such as WordPress or Posterous you'll probably be happier. ...You'll see improvements to the blogging system more often than once a year and you won't have to periodically Publish All!
As it happens, at least one person is in the process of switching from iWeb's blog to WordPress right now — see HERE.

Posting to an iWeb blog from an iPhone

I'm about to do a big charity walk (Wainwright's Coast to Coast). I'd like to post to a blog on my iWeb website. Can someone tell me if I can do this easily and how please? Many thanks Ian Smith

I think you need to ask in the iWeb forum, or find some people who really use iWeb blogs. My sense is that the iWeb platform is pretty limited, but I don't really know.
I'm pretty sure there is no iWeb app for the iPhone. Ask Apple for one here:
http://apple.com/feedback
So one question is--does iWeb let you use the XML-RPC protocol that seems to be the standard for blogging clients? Or some other standard? If so, presumably an iPhone blog client like this could be set up:
http://appshopper.com/social-networking/iblogger
but you need some people who know iWeb to help you figure out what the settings would be.
Or maybe iWeb has a Post-by-Email capability? Again, ask iWeb experts.
If iWeb doesn't support any of those, you could certainly set up a WordPress.com blog or something--they have both post-by-email and a blogging app. Or Blogger/Blogspot or any major blogging platform. Maybe iWeb has the ability to show an RSS feed on your iWeb blog, so that it would show links to the WP.com posts that you make.
A charity walk sounds made for Twitter, though, if you ask me.

Scripting iWeb blogging

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

Iweb-blog its so so so slow!!!

when browsing my blog, a lot of people are complaining that they give up because it takes so long to upload, what can i do?
i use mobileme and i am i tech-not!!
please i want my site to be fast!

The best way is to forget about the iWeb blog and use something like Blogger!
Use several small blogs instead of one big one.
Reduce any image or audio files as much as possible.
Optimizing your files before uploading will increase speed noticeably.
If you use Blogger you can switch to another server rather than MobileMe and get faster download speeds.
For more information....
http://iwebfaq.org/site/iWeb_Blogging.html

What is the current status of iWEb BLOG?

What is the current realitly around iWeb's "Blog" feature. When MM disappeared, the Blog feature suffered. It did not "translate" to other servers which drove users to use other blogging programs rather than do the gymnastics to make iWeb Blogs work.
Is this still the state of affairs?
ks

Well yes and it always will be as MobileMe is not coming back and if you are talking about blog comments, then that was a MobileMe only feature.
There are workaround for this that work very well and you can have a look at http://www.intensedebate.com and there is also Disqus and perhaps other software.
Try WordPress.com or .org instead, Blogger by Google or Posterous and re-create your blog and then link to it from your website or display it in your website as an iframe within an html snippet.

IWeb, Blogging and Comments when using a different Host

Hi
I have an iWeb site, using Google Domain name, and hosting services of Network Solutions. I want to add a Blog to my site but allow for comments. Currently, iWeb is telling me that comments are added only if I use my MobileMe account. Is there a way to have a blog in iWeb, publish through my current host and have a comment feature that will update properly without kinks? I am considering using Blogger (Google) but unsure of what to do. Any suggestions or realities are accepted! Thanks

Just use Blogger or WordPress to create your blog and then you can place a link on your website to your blog. Either that or you can display your blog directly in your site by using iframe code.
Your other alternative is to use the iWeb blog and use something like http://www.intensedebate.com as a comment feature. You could include it on the same page as the blog or put it on a different page.
Personally, I don't like the iWeb blog, so I use WordPress for my blog and just keep a link to it from my site so that it goes straight to the blog and then opens in a new page.

Creating book from iWeb Blog?

I have been going back and forth with a decision to create my blog using iWeb or blogger or other blog sites. I want to be able to publish my blog in a book format at some point as a way to archive for my kids. I have found blurb.com as a way to create a book with my blog on blogger, wordpress, typepad, etc. but is there a way to create a book from my blog if I use iWeb? Have any of you done this successfully? I don't want to put a lot of time into my blog on iWeb if I can't easily create a book out of it. Any ideas?

I have made many books from my blog pages. I created my own simple solution. I save the page as a PDF to Iphoto. I collect all of the pages, rotate them to their side, and create a wire-bound Apple book. This lets me maintain their 8.5 x 11" size (or similar), so the writing is clear. They just have to be read by paging through them like a tablet, so to speak.
**This solution worked really well with Tiger. I just upgraded to Leopard last night, and can't get them to print to PDF in the proper size for my book (They're too big).
I've posted a question, and am waiting for an answer. If you have Tiger still, this solution above should work though!

Print iWeb blog into book

I want to make my iWeb created blog into a book. Is there an easy way to do it? I found a post about saving the page as a PDF but if the blog post is too big the photos are cut off. I resized the PDF but then the font is tiny and the page looks weird. (I previously had a blog on Blogger and would use Blurb.com to make a book. iWeb doesn't slurp into Blurb.)

This might not quite be what you're looking for but last year I printed my travel blog into a "home made" book.
What I did was print out the blog pages double-sided on my Canon printer that allows double-sided printing. I used good ink-jet paper so the colours wouldn't bleed through. Then I used a Canon +Photo Album Kit+ and +Image Buddy+ to arrange the blog's album pictures on the pages to print the pictures. The Canon Album kit comes with 10 double-sided pages and a hard-cover to slide all the pages into. I used their thin paper as a separator between the photo pages. I ended up using more double-sided Canon photo paper and also more regular paper to add things like maps, itinerary etc. Even with all the additions the whole album has held together over the whole year and probably holds about 100pp in all.
It's not quite as professional a product as an Apple-produced hard-cover book, but we thought it quite acceptable and while it was relatively time-consuming the first time round, it did do what we provide the book for us.

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