IWeb bug

Help please! I spent hours working on my iWeb photo gallery. i use an external device. I saved and published to a folder. Used iWeb SEO tool to add meta tags and published via dreamweaver. I went to update some pix and all the pix are gone that I spent ages adding. I turned on my external hard drive but they're still not visible. This has happened several times and I've had to redo it each tie. This is so not acceptable if I want to keep building on the galleries. How do I import my last saved folder work back into iWeb so I'm not starting from scratch each time??
So frustrated and dejected.

yogaflight: Though Rage does not state it clearly, their advice is to not use the iWeb SEO tool on a blog. I did so and also lost all my comments. I wrote Rage support and got the following answer:
Date: September 30, 2009 9:57:37 PM PDT
Subject: Re: [#HZW-418127]: Blog Comments disappeared
Paul: I understand your message but your response is incomplete. Is there a way to regain the comments that no longer appear?
Robert Cushman
On Sep 30, 2009, at 8:03 PM, Rage Software Support wrote:
Hi Robert,
Do not Apply tags to Blog pages with comments on them. We are working on a way to get around this problem, but for now, do not do this.
RAGE Software
<Edited by Host>
Department: Support
Priority: Low
Status: Open

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Apple should still fix iWeb bugs.

Apple should still fix iWeb bugs, even though it has been discontinued. There are many many bugs still in the latest version.
One of which is failure to save your current work and to enable the publish button when changes are made.

That's like asking Ford to continue to provide parts for the Edsel or Chevrolet for the Corvair.
What system and iWeb version are you using? iWeb 2 (08) is not compatible with Mt. Lion. iWeb 3 is. Others who have had that problem did find fixes.
As Roddy pointed out you could learn how to use iWeb and it's menus?
iWeb 2
iWeb 3:
It's really not that hard.
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IWeb Bugs and a wish for the future. :)

Hi there,
Two issues that I've found moving my photoblog to iWeb, and I'm wondering if they are bugs or issues that the community knows about:
1. I've changed the template I used a lot - font colours, background, etc. Now when I create a new blog entry, it uses the old, standard template and I have to change everything again. Is there a way to make iWeb realise that I've changed my "default" template settings so all new entries remain the same? It seems not. This is my feature wish.
2. Related to this, I solve this problem by just duplicating one of my existing pages and then changing the photo and content and date. The PROBLEM with this is where i think the bug exists. In iWeb, when I click Next/Previous, it goes between the different entries in chronological order, as expected... but when it publishes to .Mac, the next/previous buttons are really messed up, linking to articles/pages that are not even close to being near them in order. I've been able to determine that:
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c. The NEXT button on this new, last entry links to the third item, just as the original 2nd item did before I duplicated it.
Is there any way to make iWeb re-calculate the next and previous buttons before you publish it? Or even better, any Apple folks around that can confirm/escalate this?
UPDATE: It's also possible that iWeb is ordering the next and previous buttons based on the time the entry was created in iWeb, rather then the time specified on the entry. If you are porting older entries from a previous blog, this can be a pain because you're not necessarily putting entries in from oldest to newest.
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3. This is more advanced, but seems a bug none the less. I use .Mac publishing, because it's integrated and easy. But I also have my down domain, which I have configured to just "forward" to my .Mac folder. So, when someone goes to www.mydomain.com, the server connects to web.mac.com/me/iWeb/ and makes the request, translating the path. This works really great (save some initial headaches with character encoding), but comments in iWeb blogs don't work when you do this.
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It sounds like it! I ported about 10 new posts from my old MovableType installation last night and am seeing the same behaviour - duplicating entries definately breaks the chronological order of next/previous.
Apple?
Is there a place I can file a formal bug report?

Iweb bug : doesn't open after template update

Hello, I have the iWeb 08 version (830 a43), everything was working fine until I downloaded a free template on internet. After it's installation, I can't open iWeb anymore.
It shows up in the upper bar and in the lower icon bar but there's no windows with the websites to work in,
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That's a problem with those templates. Many don't work with iWeb.
First repair disk permissons with Disk Utility and try iWeb again. Next, try the following:
1 - delete the iWeb preference file, com.apple.iWeb.plist, that resides in your
User/Home/Library/ Preferences folder.
2 - delete iWeb's cache file, Cache.db, that is located in your
User/Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.iWeb folder (Snow Leopard and Earlier).
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If that's unsuccessful reinstall iWeb from your backup or the original source (i.e. the disks that came with your Mac).
FWIW:
In Lion and Mountain Lion the Home/Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and press the Return key - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.
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IWeb bugs

I designed my website on IWeb06. I published my website and it was perfect. I decided to upgrade to IWeb08 for the added features.... What a mistake!!! The following problems arose:
1. All my fonts suddenly had conflicts (apostrophes and accents were converted to question marks once the site was published online but not when published to folder and viewed) I had to convert all text to image in order to fix the problem, as mentioned in the HELP section, except in the photo captions where this is NOT POSSIBLE. Therefore photo captions publish with question marks for certain characters.
2. The shadows I added to my photos in the photo album (which worked fine in iWeb 06) DISAPPEAR when the website is published either to folder or .mac. But the shadow specs still appear when working in iWeb...
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1. All my fonts suddenly had conflicts (apostrophes and accents were converted to question marks once the site was published online but not when published to folder and viewed)
Nothing to do with fonts, most likely your ftp settings were wrong.
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/iwebchars.html

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How do I fix this error?
"There was an error with reading your iDisk quota"
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TIA
Steve

This error obviously happens often enough that Apple has published a technical note...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303306
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Solutions for "Unknown error occured" when publishing in iWeb

Many complaints where written on the forums about this annoying *"Unknown error occurred"* bug, while publishing in iWeb.
Until now, nobody could actually find the problem, but in most cases the problem is not a network connection, but an iWeb bug, that occurs during html files creation process.
I'm using iWeb a lot and through my work found several different solutions, that worked for me and for many other users. Try them all out, before going desperate and rebuilding the site from scratch:
1. Try closing and reopening iWeb (do it in all other steps between operations).
2. Try to publish the site Locally. If it works, try publishing to the server again.
3. Try publishing the ENTIRE site, first Locally, then to the server (File>Publish Entire Site). This operation forces iWeb to rebuild all the files from skratch.
4. Try closing iWeb and deleting the User/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iweb.plist preferences file. iWeb will create a new one again next time it opens (don't worry, you will only lose iWeb preferences, but not your website)
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6. If nothing works, try reinstalling iWeb. Before doing that, back-up your project file, which is located at +User/Library/Application Support/iWeb+ to some other location.
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Try signing out of the app (Store menu,) quitting the app, restarting the app and signing back in.

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I moved my iWeb sites over to another server (iPage) and went through the sites to observe for inconsistencies and problems. While doing this, I noted that my image galleries, when placed into the slides show mode, were very small on my iPad 2 and that they cycled through at a very high speed. I thought this was odd and I wondered if anyone else has observed the same thing? It sounds to me that an HTML under-the-hood modification may be required or a bug fix to the iWeb code is in order, to change the sideshow image scale and viewing time/slide value. Comments? [I suspect that Apple does not hold iWeb bug fixes at or near to the top of its software development to-does priority list. Sounds like I need to change web authoring software.]

Why do you think it's a bug?
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IWeb '12?

Is Apple discontinuing iWeb or can we expect updates in the future?
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No. If they follow the usual numbering method it will be titled iWeb 4. The 11 or 12 just refers to the iLife version it fall in. Something like how iPhoto and iLife are numbered;
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<blockquote style="padding-left: 25px;"
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▪ iPhoto 8 (iLife '09): released January 2009
▪ iPhoto 9 (iLife '11): released October 2010
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3.01 Text underlined bug.

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Doing what the genius suggested will turn all your text into an image and your pages will take forever to download.
This looks more like a problem with your iWeb installation as it is certainly not a general iWeb bug.

How to Create a Photo Landing page

I have several photo galeries and would like to use them all in a single site (.mac) publishing with iWeb. The problem lays on the pages structure itself, if I have many to one I can not post all my galeries and use a thumb to call the photo album to that specific selection. I can only create many albums and they all will have the same level as other menu items (welcome, about me, blog etc...) I need to keep all my albums in a single landing page being a child to the " photos " page and from where the visitor should choose which album they will see.
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Sean,
Are you going to take out the "lorum ipsum"
(placeholder text) in the Photo Page menu? Also, you
need to check your links to the albums. they are not
all correct and clicking them brings me to the wrong
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Lori,
Thanks!! I told my wife that since I did the hard work, she gets to come up with words for the placeholder text and favorites lists underneath them. Alas I am on the road for the rest of the week and she doesn't have a copy of the site on her Mac.
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I wanted to use flash to make navigation buttons in the sidebar to the left, but when I put the flash into the box on the template it does not appear on the page in my browser, or it shows as a white field. So I moved the flash-file to the main part of the page, and it appears there. I have also attached links to the single buttons in the flash,when I made the flash-file, but they do not seem to work at all when I publish the site.
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Could someone please try to explain to me why I get the white field instead of the buttons, and what I need to do to get the buttons to work when clicked?
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Thanks. I was thinking of doing screen captures and showing those. But, I fixed the problem.
Maybe it was my particular case, but it was sure screwed up. By recreating the Home page with the links at the top, checking to make sure it was OK, and then duplicating that page for remaining pages, I solved the problem.
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Flash with full path link does not work, does anyone know how?

Hey guys do not think many people now needed it, but to kill me and I can not.
I need the following: Place a swf with the full path of another server.
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Cute site! I like it!
Regarding your links at the top of the page. Things to try:
1. In the Inspector Page tab, try adjusting the header height value to 0.
2. Move your links/buttons down the page slightly.
3. Instead of making the text hyperlinks, maybe overlay a 1% transparent rectangular shape over the whole button to make your button a "hotspot" hyperlink.
I think the problem right now is that there is a reserved area at the top of the template pages where the navigation menu usually lives. For some reason links placed here sometimes to not work even if the navigation menu is turned off. Seems to be an iWeb bug.
Give the above suggestions a try. Any one of them could help. Let me know what happens! Good luck.

NO Shadows

I am having problems with shadows showing up in iWeb, but not appearing when the site is published. There is a problem here and it doesn't seem to be related to a specific browser. Shadows worked fine before in Firefox... and on Macs and PCs.
I have tried deleting shapes with shadows and reinserting new ones then adding a shadow... after publishing, the shadow does not appear on the web page for that shape.
I have tried adding a shadow to text as an object and that doesn't work either.
The only time the shadow shows up is when you highlight the text and then check apply shadow.
So, if anyone has any better ideas than, it is a Firefox issue, PLEASE let us know. JS

Got the same problem here too and it surely is an IWEB bug, not a firefox bug. For a simple reason. A website has to be compatible with the greatest number of browsers to be a good website. Firefox is one of the most used browser in the world, surely more sued than Safari, so making the site usable by Safari and not by Firefox is just a no-sense.
Plus Iweb worked in the previous version, why did I spend my money to have something that doesn't work and have almost no new feature (Plus some more templates, never used templates after all)?
This whole thing is a no-sense. Please, developers, do something about it, that's a significant DOWNGRADE in Iweb features. Very bad.
Apple software should be easy and immediate to use. This new IWeb is just unusable and buggish. That's absolutely baaad.
We want our shadows back and we don't want only people using IE or Safari to be able to browse our sites. Isn't that maybe, if someone wants to think really nasty about it, a move to have more people use Safari???
I really hope it is not. Because it was a really stupid move in any case.

Links not work sometimes?

I have a bunch of tabs on the top of a site and they are all linked to the proper pages. I copied and pasted the tabs (already linked) between pages. For some reason two or three of them don't work.

No, I didn't hyperlink the text, I don't want the
underlines. I linked the whole object.
What "object" did you attach the hyperlink to? I guess it doesn't really matter, though, since the problem seems to be related to the "reserved" space. I'm just curious of the different methods of hyperlinking that people use. FWIW, I only saw one set of links in the source, too...but I'm no expert in HTML by any stretch of one's imagination.
Moving the text objects down a centimeter worked. Is
there are way to remove the reserve within iWeb? If
not, what code is it in the source so that I can
manually remove it, I don't see it.
Just as I suspected. This is definitely an iWeb bug. There isn't any way to remove this in iWeb directly. Looking at the source, I'm guessing that it is related to these lines...
I don't really know, though.
Incidentally (and this has nothing to do with the problem at hand), I noticed that there is a 1 x 700 image on the page...
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