Is my iWeb site capable of online retail?

Is it possible for iWeb to make your site capable of conducting sales? If so, how? Just finished the design phase and this would be the next step. Assuming PayPal but not sure how to proceed?

PayPal is the most used and, I suppose, trusted. Google Checkout is also worth considering.
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IWeb not capable of online store, what is?

Hi folks, I know iWeb is not capable of doing an online storefront, least that's what I read. What mac software out there can? Looking to start an online business and wondering if there is some software I can use. Any info would be appreciated.
Thanks

John ~ See the video here:
http://blog.weebly.com/2/post/2009/05/announcing-weebly-e-commerce-features.html
...You may find you can build your entire site (not just the "shop") in free, web-based Weebly. But if not, as an alternative to setting up a basic hyperlink in iWeb to your external "shop", you can link to it from iWeb's navigation bar:
Create a blank internal page titled "Shop" (actually you can name the page whatever you want.) Then in that Shop page add an HTML Snippet with the following code:
<script type="text/javascript">
parent.window.location = "http://www.yourshopname.com"; // change this to your own URL
</script>
...Once published, clicking on "Shop" in the navbar will immediately redirect to your external Shop page. (Thanks to Cyclosaurus for the code).

Html snippet works w/in iweb but NOT when site is live & online @$#!

help!? I have had a flash based slide show working on my iweb site for some time I used iweb enhancer to make it work w/ iweb 06 - now in 08 the "enhancer" doesnt work. The html snippet should & seems to...I am able to get the pages to behave very well while IN iweb the slide shows load while the program is active & when I publish the site to a folder the site works great - UNTIL I upload it and try to view it online THEN it doesnt work properly.
I have a google map snippet that works fine live OR when browsing from the hard drive/folder WHY wont the snippets work when they are uploaded if they work ON my computer?????
site is www.austin-studios.com click on seniors OR children...
-thanks in advance

Phil,
Everything is working fine on my end too. (OSX 10.5.2) Tried your site on Safari 3.1 / Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.3 / Firefox 2.0.0.9 and Camino Version 2007022813 (1.0.4)... each one ran your snippets with out fail
Would emptying cache on your computer help?
Good Luck,
John

Retrieving iWeb site from online...

My macbook's HD recently needed to be replaced and all of the data was wiped off...
Is there anyway to reload my iWeb site back into the application from online/iDisk? Can the domain file in Application support be rebuilt from the published site/iDisk files? The latest version of the site is online, and this should be an option.
PS I've had a lot of lectures about the virtues of backing up...the Application Support folder wasn't automatically backed up like it should have been. So it didn't help.

Is there anyway to reload my iWeb site back into the
application from online/iDisk?
No.
Can the domain file in
Application support be rebuilt from the published
site/iDisk files?
No.
To tell Apple how you think things should work, you can use the feedback item in the iWeb menu.

5 users to contribute content from window based PC's to iWeb site

I would like to create a website in iWeb '09 which will require multiple users to contribute/publish content, but the other site collaborators do not have Macs, just Windows-based PCs.

Welcome to the discussions. Even if your five users all had Macs running the same version of iWeb, it would still be difficult for them to contribute content — because iWeb's site data is stored in a Domain file on a Mac. This Domain file would need to be exchanged around the users for updating — which is not very practical for Mac users and impossible for PC users.
Instead of using iWeb, I suggest using a web-based design app accessible from PCs and Macs. Some of these apps have specific features for sharing whilst others may be sharable by giving out the single username/password to the other users. But this could be problematic if there's only a single email address associated with the username.
This first one is specifically designed for sharing:
Backpack
Google Sites claims to make creating and sharing a group website easy:
Google Sites
This one focusses upon "social networking":
Ning
...With Ning you can add tabs and sub-tabs to specific pages and external links via the Tab Manager feature. Mouse-over the menu items at this Ning site:
http://www.openwineconsortium.org
And their tab manager:
http://blog.ning.com/2008/08/a-new-tab-manager-early-next-week.html
Other web-based design apps are:
SnapPages
Yola
Viviti
Jimdo
Weebly
Sampa
Wix
If a sharable blog format is acceptable, you could hyperlink from your iWeb site is to a free Posterous blog. Posterous has "dead simple group blogging by email" where each of your three possible blogs can now have multiple contributers — see more here.
General info about Posterous blogs is in their FAQ. ...Group members can contribute text, photos, sound and video files, etc. to a Posterous blog simply by email. Plus there is the usual commenting capability plus comment alerts for the account holder.

I have been exporting lightroom webgaleries to my iweb site without any problem. Suddenly I get the error message "finder can't complete the operation because some data can't be read or written" - error code -36 - thoughts?

i have been exporting lightroom web galleries to my iweb site without any problem. Suddenly I get the error message "finder can't complete the operation because some data can't be read or written" - error code -36 - and the move to the sites folder on my idisk fails..... thoughts?

Try this community: MobileMe on my Mac: MobileMe: Apple Support Communities.
And you can continue to use iWeb for some time to come. The following will explain:
It's now confirmed that iWeb and iDVD have been discontinued by Apple. This is evidenced by the fact that new Macs are shipping with iLife 11 installed but without iWeb and iDVD.
On June 30, 2012 MobileMe will be shutdown. HOWEVER, iWeb will still continue to work but without the following:
Features No Longer Available Once MobileMe is Discontinued:
◼ Password protection
◼ Blog and photo comments
◼ Blog search
◼ Hit counter
◼ MobileMe Gallery
All of these features can be replaced with 3rd party options.
I found that if I published my site to a folder on my hard drive and then uploaded with a 3rd party FTP client subscriptions to slideshows and the RSS feed were broken. If I published directly from iWeb to the FPT server those two features continued to work correctly.
There's another problem and that's with iWeb's popup slideshows. Once the MMe servers are no longer online the popup slideshow buttons will not display their images.
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However, Roddy McKay and I have figured out a way to modify existing sites with those slideshows and iWeb itself so that those images will display as expected once MobileMe servers are gone. How to is described in this tutorial: #26 - How to Modify iWeb So Popup Slideshows Will Work After MobileMe is Discontinued.
In addition the iLife suite of applications offered on disc is now a discontinued product and the remaining supported iApps will only be available thru the App Store from now on.
HOWEVER, the iLife 11 boxed version that is still currently available at the online Apple Store (Store button at the top of the page) and those copies still on the shelves of retailers will include iWeb and iDVD.

Hard drive reformatted. Need to delete iweb site. No backups available

Hard drive was reformatted and the iweb site material obviously lost. I would like to delete all the iweb pages i have posted using 'mobile me' as they do not show anything. Is this possible. I though it would be possible to delete the pages using 'mobile me' online.

Mount your iDisk and use the Finder to navigate the folder structure.
Delete the contents of the "Web" (no quotes) folder and all of your previously published pages will disappear.
Redo your pages in iWeb and Publish again to make new pages.

Iweb site in 08 editable in 09 ??

Can an iweb site be edited in 09' if it was created in 08' version ?
This would be done on two computers... Are they compatible to edit?

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Both computers would have to be running the same version of iWeb and use the same domain file. The 08 computer would have to upgrade to iWeb 09.
Then you would have to have a way for each computer to access the same Domain.sites2 files (but not at the same time). MacWorld online has an article on one way to do that: Managing an iWeb site from multiple Macs.
Bottom line: both computers must run the same version of iWeb and not access the domain file at the same time.
OT

Moving my iweb site to another mac

Is it possible to move my iweb site from one mac to another? If so how do I do it?
Thanks,
Mike

Lucy,
iWebSites is a beta application capable of merging separate Domain files. It gets good reviews in this forum.
You will not overwrite one Domain file with another unless you intentionally replace a Domain file with another, just like any like-named file. Keep your Domain files in their own folders, folders that are named for the sites the respective Domain files contain. Open the Domain file/Site of your choice by first opening it's folder and then double-clicking on the Domain file inside.
Mark

Lost iWeb site after reinstalling OS

I installed Leopard using the clean install but forgot to backup my iWeb site from my Library. I have the entire site online. Is there a way to recreate the iWeb site locally from my .mac account?

Without the Domain.sites file there is no way.
You've learned a very hard lesson about backing up your User folder.

Can I download an iWeb site so that I can change the html? I need to add a better blog and also some SEO.

Can I download an iWeb site so that I can change the html? I need to add a better blog and also some SEO.

Where is your site hosted? If it's hosted on MobileMe you can use SEO to edit the site online. No need to get it locally.
If the site is hosted with a 3rd party fpt client then publish your site to a folder on your hard drive, use SEO on it there and then upload the site to your server with a 3rd party ftp client.
What do you mean "add a better blog"?
OT

Clone an iWeb Site?

I would like to use an existing iWeb site as a template for another site, which will replace the first one. I want to leave the first on up online, and re-design it using the cloned site, then publish the new one.
But there is no "Save As" function in iWeb.
Any suggestions?

iWeb stores the website data in a Domain.sites2 file...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/iWeb-Tips.html
Duplicate this file, give it another name or store it in a separate folder and then launch it in iWeb to create the content for the new site by double clicking the file.
If you are using Lion, look further down the above page for info on how to open Domain files.

How can another person on a PC edit an iWeb site?

Can someone edit an iWeb site using a browser or another app? Is there a way to run iWeb on a PC?

In a word NO.
If you want to do anything like this using a PC, then choose another programme. DreamWeaver is both PC and Mac compatible, or else you need to use something like an online system such as the content management systems such as WordPress, Drupal or Joomla.

IWeb site for selling my books

I'm an author who is selling my books on an old web site where my Merchant account provided HTML snippits to create a shopping basket where customers can buy my books. When they put in their credit card data it transfers the $ to my bank account, and I get an email and ship my books to them.
I have created a new iWeb site to replace the old one on NetWork solutions at my domaine www.deepwaterspress.com and do not know how to put my merchant account HTML snippits into my iWeb site on Mobile me. Please advise. Thanks,
Harold Lyon

halclyon wrote:
...and do not know how to put my merchant account HTML snippits into my iWeb site on Mobile me.
Harold ~ Welcome to the discussions. The MobileMe Terms of Service states:
"The Service is designed for personal individual use and is not intended to be used for commercial business purposes, including, but not limited to, transacting online sales or software distribution via an e-commerce site."
The addition of an HTML Snippet is briefly shown in this video tutorial:
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/web/iweb08.html#livecontent
An alternative to HTML Snippets is to hyperlink from your iWeb site to a free e-commerce page at Weebly — see the video here:
http://blog.weebly.com/2/post/2009/05/announcing-weebly-e-commerce-features.html
If that's suitable, you may even want to consider building your entire site in Weebly.
By the way, a tip... Instead of posting your site's URL like this:
www.deepwaterspress.com
...include the prefix like this:
http://www.deepwaterspress.com
...then it will be easily clickable in your post. And before posting, you can switch from Compose mode to Preview mode to verify that the hyperlink actually goes to your site when clicked.

IWeb Site Just Gone! Can I import the HTML info???

Not sure how, but iWeb no longer shows my website in the organizer. I tried looking for the domain file and it's gone also. I know I was saving every 30 mins. Just gone. I do have the folder that I published too. When I open the index.html file the site loads like it should. But I can't do anything in iWeb. I really don't want the last 3 days of work to be a waste.
Please Help.

Did you happen to upgrade or create the site in iWeb '08 and then try to open from another drive or partition in '06? '06 does not open '08 domain files. That's the only explanation I can think of for the "disappearance."
If your site is till online, you may be able to "suck' the elemnts back:
http://www.sitesucker.us/home.html
Good luck-- Scott

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