IWeb 08!! (AHHH!!!)

Hey
I am one of the many, who is having issues with the new suite of programs. Basically this is my problem:
I started a website in iWeb 06 and it had been going perfectly and was looking pretty swish. I installed iLife 08, and frantically checked my website. Nothing wrong, Phew! So I carried on working and everything was going nicely, until I published my site. You will be surprised to know that I didn't get a error, however when I went to check my website, I looked at one of the tables I had made and It was all messed up. To tell you the truth they weren't really tables, they were just lines organised to look like tables. Luckily as this is a project for school I have several other versions of the site published into folders and saved. So I took a screenshot of the new version and the old version to show you (See below). So my question to you guys is how do I make a proper table in iWeb? Or how can I get my website looking the way it should?
http://kumquat.quickshareit.com/share/feestable14c7e4.jpg
http://grapefruit.quickshareit.com/share/buprices11b5a4.jpg
Thanks
Tclare
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I wish I had the answers.. until Apple fixes this program.. there will not be any valid answers... I like being used as a beta test subject. Maybe the guys on here that say that we should ask questions and they will help. Maybe they can answer this?
But the truth of the matter is we got sold something that doesn't work....
Want to buy a brand new car with out the tires?
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PROBLEM
Images on the WEB pages are converted to MONITOR profile and then stripped of any profile. This is a particularly devious bug, since on YOUR own monitor, the images will appear to be published correctly. But on other peoples monitor, it will be incorrect.
There is no easy workaround for this problem.
For more information see http://www.tomasjonsson.eu
Tomas

Tomas,
Ahhh, this is like a detective story!!! Clues and stuff!!!
Actually most of my "old" photos transferred from the previous iWeb (Take my blog archive "Peace on Earth and Goodwill Towards Manatees" for instance, 2006 posting). Those pics show an sRGB profile and they are even transferred from the old iWeb through to the new iWeb 08. I didn't do anything to them except fix the blog page format a little like I did with all the blog pages. I did not reimport them.
But on a couple of my blog entries I thought they might be too light and I wanted to see what the adjust tab in iWeb would do...... I know I'm a Photoshop person and know the right way but I was tempted. So the three or so that I adjusted in iWeb 08 (using the photo adjust thing - brightness down a bit) those show no color profile when I download them and put them back into Photoshop. In fact the downloaded file says "filtered".
So I know not to try to quick adjust in iWeb, it was just and experiment anyway and it does strip the profile - that is the only thing different I did to those photos. But most of the other photos have sRGB profiles even the manatee thumbnail on the right has an sRGB profile but the other two thumbs got turned into graphics probably cause I tried to link them then canceled for the time being.
But upshot is the majority of my picture files retained their profiles I assigned in Photoshop, sRGB (I shoot in Adobe RGB but assign sRGB for the web).
Only the three or four photos I tried to adjust in iWeb stripped the profile and say "filtered" after download. But now on another look (forgive me it is late and I'm fading), it seems that the older posts I had when I didn't do anything to the photo when I changed themes - that is I just let iWeb drop and crop the photo in the strange crop in their original template (like the one about the stargazer); that photo when downloaded doesn't say "filtered" but it says "shape image" but both the four or so "filtered" files I edited in IWeb and the photo files that I just let iWeb place where it wanted to as "shape image" those are the only files stripped of my original sRGB profiles (besides the two thumbs that are graphics now). I'm getting this now - on most of my blogs I hated iWebs template format and I just chose "original file" from the inspector and resized a little in the blog entry with the measure tool and those files are in sRGB and not stripped of profile (unless of course they were the several that I decided to mess with in iWeb's edit.)
And the 2 thumbs on the right that turned into graphics - those profiles seem to be gone as they are probably png files now?
But the manatee thumb on the right is still sRGB.
There must be a pattern here though as how did the manatee thumb that is not linked to the blog at all stay sRGB?
One thing I do is I always insert photos through the "Insert Choose" tab I never drag from the finder. I wonder if this makes a difference? I don't see how it could but maybe it does?
Or is there some metadata tag my photos have that keeps the assigned sRGB color profile relatively in tact (that is until I tried to edit in iWeb or turned a thumb into a graphic)? Remember my sRGB profile stayed in on the vast majority of the blog photos even through the iWebb 08 upgrade.
Tomas, forgive me but I'm completely gone now I'm wandering - I've also been trying to learn iMovie '08.....
I think there is a lesson here though. The majority of my blog photos retained their sRGB profile even through the upgrade. The only ones that lost it were the ones I did nothing to (i.e. let iWeb just drop into the standard template - those are "shape image" now with no profile); or the other several that lost the profiles were the ones that I used the adjust tab on in iWeb.
But even on the ones I did not "reimport" if I just clicked on "original size" in the inspector and resized with the measure tool a little those kept their profile (unless of course those are some of the ones I "adjusted" in iWeb. But what is curious is that I didn't click on any but the top one of the "Peace on Earth and Goodwill Towards Manatees" post - there are a number of other photos in that post and all those photos kept their sRGB profile through the upgrade to iWeb '08 and the change in blog themes. I did not touch those photos - they just kept their profile.
There is a lesson here but I'm too tired to figure it out.
My monitor profile is a bit different from sRGB but maybe not so much. sRGB monitor profile is too "green" and I have a Huey Pro that I calibrate with that takes that color cast away. I tried Monaco Optix but that was complex and didn't work for me at all. The Huey is simple, quick, easy, portable and just works.
Will leave you geniuses to figure this all out. Looks to me like you can keep your sRGB profiles (even in small thumbs like the manatee to the right in the frame); if you don't edit in iWEB 08 or turn it into a graphic thumbnail (but we knew that) and if you don't just let iWEB 08 drop your images into some strange crop in the existing template (then the files say "shape image" with the file and no color profile?)
Over and out will let you guys figure it out......, Carol

Cannot publish from iWeb 08 after upgrading to Leopard

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Thanks and Merry Christmas to you too! I have experienced both modem/network problems and was unable to publish in Tahiti and Cook Islands because of that and now these problems which have nothing to do with network it seems - so yours may or may not be network related. I was able to cheat and copied my "Site" folder from my hard drive to my iDisk rather then publishing. I can't remember if you've tried this or not (read a lot of strings today) but you can publish to a folder and then copy that folder to your iDisk at /Web/Sites/iWeb/Site as "Site" after first renaming the one that is out there now. Let me know if you have any questions on how to do it. It sounds like you are traveling like we are and anxious to communicate with friends and family back home. When you are bored, our site is web.mac.com/baganworldtour.
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Clean it up and sort it out Mr Jobs!
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Download iWebBackup Here
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I wonder if someone can guide me or point me to a previous answer on this, since I haven't found one. I'm simply trying to use iweb 1.1.2 on two user accounts (both labled as administrators) on our macbook. The program functions fine on one account, but when I switch over to another user account on the computer iweb will open, but does not let me start a new page, save, etc.
Thanks much for any response.

Welcome to the discussions. If iWeb's menus are greyed out, the following trick has worked for some:
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...Now perhaps things are no longer greyed out in iWeb.

How do I use a frameset to another website within my iweb site?

I am trying to figure out how to use frameset to view my online booking site within my site that I have created on iWeb. right now I just refer to a link but I would like to be abel to use the frameset to do it. I do have this code but not sure what to do with it.
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<head>
<title>Online Appointment Book</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
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</style>
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A Frameset is a separate, non-iWeb, webpage with the code you show.
The upperframe.html and lowerframe.html are urls to whatever page you want to display.
What you probably want is an <iframe>. You use it to display an external page within an iWeb page.
The code is :
<iframe src="http://url.to.file.html" frameborder="0" width="500" height="500" scrolling="no" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>
You paste the code in the HTML Snippet. You have to change the width and height to reflect your situation.
Note that an <iframe> is static. It does not change when the page it displays changs in width or height. To scroll set scrolling to yes.
Sample iWeb page with <iframe> : http://www.wyodor.net/iFrame/

Duplicate user account OR migrate iPhoto/iWeb between users

I've seen this question asked several times before, but have not seen an answer!
So, with as many details as I can muster:
I have, on my computer, 4 user accounts: my admin account, my user account, my boyfriend's user account, and our business account... All separate, keeps things nice and tidy (sort of!).
I have a new and separate project that I'm starting to work on which involves lots of images, and new websites, and new and different stuff that's necessary for the project, but just clutter in any of the other accounts.
Because this project started out as something my man wanted to play around with, all of the beginnings of this are in his iPhoto and his iWeb, and they're well organized. I've not had luck so far moving the iPhoto and iWeb libraries to a new/blank user and maintaining the organization that I've spent time and attention making right.
He's not so great with technology, and gets very frustrated (and unproductive!) when anything on the computer doesn't work exactly like he expects it to. (When Lion came out and the scrolling went "the wrong direction" he was afraid to use the computer at all for a week, because "everything changed, I don't even know how to use it anymore" that's between us though, personal issure ). So I'd like to keep the user experience the same for him. I'd like to duplicate his settings, preferences, etc. into a new user for him, and take over his current account to isolate this project.
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I want to create a new account with the same user experience as a current account without having to find and reset all of his settings.
OR
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Kenzishly wrote:
I want to create a new account with the same user experience as a current account without having to find and reset all of his settings.
That's easy, if you have Time Machine or "bootable clone" backups. (If you don't, you should anyway. Post back if you need info on them.)
Use Migration Assistant to transfer just that user account from the backups; it will put up a screen saying it can't transfer it under the same name as the existing account, and allowing you to rename it.
Other than having a different name, the transferred account will be identical to the existing one. Then you can modifiy them separately as necessary.
EDIT: see Using Migration Assistant on Lion for detailed instructions. Be sure to un-check the boxes for eveything except that one user account.
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Can multiple computers manage the same iWeb website?

Everyone in our family has a Mac and their own blog. Is there any way each of us can use iWeb to access the same site from different computers?

Yes. But they can't be working on the file at the same time. See Old Toad's Tutorial #21 - Managing an iWeb site from multiple Macs with Dropbox.. This method makes it simple to do what you want but you have to adhere to the caveat that only once can be working on the file at the same time.
Otherwise, you wound have to have the domain file for the site make available on a server or external HD that all other Macs and users could access.
OT

Multiple websites, multiple woes: Best IWeb 09/MobileMe strategy?

I'm still a bit confused as to the best strategy for using IWeb 09's much-touted-in-reviews but apparently rather limited ability to publish to two or more separate MobileMe accounts.
In IWeb 08, I would set up several different user accounts on my Mac, associate each one with a separate MobileMe account from my Family Pack, and maintain separate domain files for each (all stored in the same folder on my hard drive, but given different names like "Domain_personal" or "Domain_business"). This worked fairly well, despite the inconvenience of sometimes not having a photo I wanted to use readily available, as it might be part of an IPhoto library that belonged to another account.
(I would generally log-in to the user account I wanted to use and work on the MobileMe domain file I had "assigned" to that account. But now and then I might forget, and start working on a domain file for the "wrong" Mac user account. That didn't seem to be a problem -- I could still save my latest changes, log out and then log in to the "right" user account, where I could publish my revised domain file to the intended MobileMe account.)
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Am I missing something here? Is there some logical reason why Apple would set up IWeb 09 to allow you to publish multiple sites, stored in one domain file, to various multiple external sites via FTP with ease? But make it essentially impractical to publish to several different MobileMe accounts, without the hassles I've mentioned?
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Anybody have a different take on this? Or a better solution?

webalias rex wrote:
Anybody have a different take on this? Or a better solution?
The following may not be a better solution, but it does provide a different "take". I haven't tried it myself, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's a fatal flaw in the idea. Anyway, taking that risk...
Since we don't know what, in iWeb '09, is causing your "slew of problems", it's not possible to say whether this proposed approach would make any difference. But in theory it would enable you to:
• maintain your separate Domain files
• publish to your multiple MobileMe accounts
• from the same user account on your Mac.
Take a look at this Apple doc:
MobileMe: How to publish a custom website
The idea is to publish your iWeb sites to different MobileMe accounts from a single Mac user account as +"custom websites"+ and, as that doc says:
"If you only plan to publish custom sites to your MobileMe account, you can make your site's URL shorter by placing your site (and its main index.html file) in the main Web/Sites folder instead."
...Presumably iWeb 09's integrated non-MobileMe publishing is FTP only, not WebDAV that iDisk requires. So you would need the free Cyberduck or pay for Transmit to publish your sites via WebDAV protocol to a MobileMe account's iDisk. And for a Domain you are about to publish, you would have to remember to use the appropriate MobileMe "destination" of the several you've set up to use in Cyberduck or Transmit.

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Make sure the site folder created by iWeb is named exactly the same as the site folder currently on the server.
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Any help is very much appreciated!
Please e-mail me directly at [email protected] Thanks.

Yes you can. Go into the System/MobileMe preference pane and log in to your MobileMe account. Once you're logged in you will be able to publish to your MMe account with iWeb.
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Have a look at this page....
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Can someone tell me what is new in IWeb latest version ?
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Hi there. If you are talking about 1.1.1 then I think that just fixed the publishing error problems.
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jabberwock
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Thanks for the response, Wyodor. I don't know what that is, but I'll have a look. Is it an alternative to iWeb or a way to transfer pre-existing iWeb sites? When you say merge domain files, is that like so multiple copies of the same site show up then you can pick and choose the non-corrupted pages and group them then delete the corrupted ones? I am on Snow Leopard with no plans or need to upgrade anytime soon.
And yes, I will read your links but just wanted to ask those questions. Maybe they'll answer my questions, maybe not.
I was able to discern that within the domain file is a domain folder with all the site folders, each with their own page ".gz" files which expand into ".xml" files. I was trying to figure out if you could simply drag the corrupt pages out that way and replace them with backup copies that are still good. I am having trouble discerning which pages are which as they all have random names like site-page-30F175E3-AE33-4F10-A490-1A096D9B185B.xml and although I expanded and opened each in Text Wrangler, I still couldn't discern which were which for sure, and trial and error proved cumbersome. Also, I did notice some of the later corrupted domain files had one or two more pages than the site itself has, so not sure how they got added or duplicated or what.
Again, I'll look at your links, but do you know about swapping out individual page .xml files this way within the domain file?

Applescript to suck ical dates into iweb

I was referred to this forum from the iweb forum (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2513935&tstart=0).
Here's what I would like to do: I am an athletic director and would I have entered all of my school's athletic contests into iCal. I would like to set up something in which iWeb can pull the events out of iCal (I have mobileme) into a "week at a glance" type of display on our athletics page (made with iweb). Ideally it would automatically update so that as events are completed, the next events would show up. I don't want to embed a calendar.
I want something that looks like the table on the right of this page: www.twu.ca/athletics.
Is there an applescript that could help me pull dates from iCal into a text box in iWeb?

Hi,
You may be able do this with an Applescript. However there is not enough information supplied to know.
How are ther events formatted in iCal? Do they contain the full name of the person? Do they say how old they are? Are the people already in Address Book, or would they all be new cards?
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