Iweb Clarifications?

Does iWeb only work if you have a website where you've purchased your own domain name? Or do these templates and this software work if you have a blog on a free site (for example like Blogger or something to that extent?)
Just confused as to what iWeb is supposed to do and how a new, non-tech person should work with it?
Do I need to first purchase a website domain and pay money to a company to "host" it? or is there a way to use iWeb with some other free service.
Thanks

I've been using it for quite some time with a free hosting service with a free subdomain. zymic.com offers pretty decent free hosting with 5GB of disk space and 50GB of bandwidth per month. They support FTP access as well, so using iWeb to update is a breeze.

Similar Messages

Warning: Backing up your iWeb 'Domain' file will not save you.

Here's the transcript from my chat with a MobilMe Support Rep. after losing (they simply disappeared) all of my blog's very valuable comments (hundreds), for nearly two years of blog entries.
I have many backed up 'domain' files, and each shows the comments that have been received and saved for all the entries when iWeb first starts up. But then, for some reason iWeb scrubs them (they just disappear) and when I "Publish All" to the web, the entries are published but not the comments attached.
Read MobilMe's response and consider yourselves warned. Backups won't save you. They simply won't. And yet . . . I was actually told I should have backed up. When I told my tech rep I had, then the reality of the situation came out. This is amazing to me.
Read on . . .
You are chatting with Omran A, a MobileMe Support Representative
Hi, my name is Omran A. Welcome to Apple!
Omran A: How are you?
Omran A: I see that you have lost your comments.
Omran A: Correct?
Perry: Yes. Phone just rang, so my responses will be a bit slow for a few
Omran A: I apologize for the inconvenience.
Omran A: Have you upgraded iWeb recently?
Perry: Yes, Omran, is there any way to retrieve them?
Omran A: I am sorry this has happened to you. Losing comments tend to happen when upgrading iweb:
Perry: I'm running the latest version, and have been since it came out. Had problems with people even leaving comments for a while, as did everyone who was using iWeb, but that had become an issue of the past for a few months as memory serves.
Omran A: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2094
Omran A: Please let me know if you can view the link
Perry: We are well past the info in this upgrade doc. Upgraded long ago
Perry: Yes, I've got it up
Omran A: I just wanted to show you that upgrading iWeb tends to delete comments
Perry: I am at step 6, contact MobilMe support.
Omran A: Can you please give me a link to your site?
Perry: http://web.me.com/davidperryphoto1/GardenBlog/APhotographers_Garden_Blog/A_Photographers_GardenBlog.html
Omran A: Can you please give me a link to your site?
Omran A: Thank you
Omran A: Please hold while I do some investigation
Omran A: Did your comments get deleted after updating to iWeb 2.0 or did happen month after that?
Perry: More than a month afterward. Just a week or so ago
Omran A: OK
Omran A: Thank you
Omran A: Please hold while I do some further investigation
Perry: Still there?
Omran A: Yes
Omran A: I am still performing a investigation.
Omran A: Please give me a few more minutes.
Perry: Thanks. I'll just keep on working here...
Omran A: Thank you for your patience
Omran A: I am terribly sorry. I search all over the servers and I am not able to recover your comments.
Omran A: I suggest backing up comments regularly.
Omran A: I suggest backing up comments regularly.
Perry: When I start up iWeb with my saved "domain" file, I see the comments, but then, within moments, the program scrubs them, because, apparently they are no longer out there on the web. Is there anyway to recapture them from the saved domain file?
Perry: How the heck do I back up my comments if they are stored in some obscure place on one of your servers and seperate from my website?
Omran A: So you see them and then they disappear
Perry: yes
Omran A: OK
Omran A: I believe the following link shows you how to backup to save comments
Omran A: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2094
Perry: Omran, look. I have a backed up copy of my domain, just as they direct. When I start up iWeb with this file, I see the saved comments. But when I publish all, as directed, I get the blog but I get no comments published. That's why you and I are talking. I've apparently got the comments still in some form in my saved domain, but the program, or .ME scrubs them. What the **** good does the backed up file do me if I can't get Mobil Me to recognize the comments and re-post them? This is my issue.
Omran A: OK
Omran A: I am sorry I did not fully understand you
Omran A: One moment please.
Omran A: I am sorry even though you are able to see the comments for a split second. You can not recover them from the domain file.
Omran A: Just for clarification
Perry: Can we agree that this is a gigantic "cluster #@$*" and that this wonderful new opportunity presented us in the form of MobilMe has been very painful and expensive for many of your loyal customers?
Omran A: You see the comments with the domain file you backed up in iweb but can not see them once you published them to the internet, correct?
Perry: correct.
Omran A: Do they disappear in iWeb ?
Perry: But the program or something tends to scrub them within a minute or so of the program starting up. They are there, in all the entries dating all the way back, and then they are not. They just disappear.
Omran A: I am sorry the domain is there but We can not recover the comments. I am sorry that you have had a bad experience with MobileMe. We have given our loyal customers a 90 day extension for your patience with us.
Perry: Do you or anyone there know of a resource that I can send the domain file to take it apart and retrieve the comments. Someone has to know how to burrow into the file and pull that stuff. Anybody there know of a resource?
Omran A: Let me check
Omran A: I just checked with my supervisor and he checked the servers and said there is no way to recover your comments.
Omran A: My sincere apologies. I understand loosing comments that span for two years is very sad.
Omran A: If there was a way I would let you know.
Omran A: I am sorry that you experience with MobileMe has not been that great, you may leave a feedback and let us know what issues has frustrated you
Omran A: MobileMe feedback
Omran A: Upper manager reads the feeback
Omran A: Feedback
Perry: Thanks to you personally Omran for your efforts. I'll be saving and perhaps publishing this dialogue between us on the blog as a warning to others, along with a few choice words and pictures illustrating my newly formed opinion of MobilMe. Watch for it.
Omran A: If you select the blue close button and you will receive a survey.
Omran A: Please note that the survey reflects only me.
Omran A: I am sorry that I was not able to help you.
Perry: NO worries. Thanks!
Omran A: If you create the blog can you change my name to something else
Omran A: It would be horrible to have people coming in and saying oh no it is you!
Perry: Why, you were awesome. It is iWeb and this new, rammed down our throats long before it should have been, MobilMe that is the problem, not you. You were a real peach.
Omran A: Thank you Perry
Omran A: Thank you for chatting and I hope MobileMe services improve to meet your needs
Omran A: And have a great day
Perry: You can be certain that I do too! Thanks again!

Yeah, if your Domain won't fit on a CD or you don't have space to save it, at LEAST set up Backup to annoy you at regular intervals. Once you've clicked cancel a few times due to wanting to get something else done, perhaps it will begin to wear on your psyche and guilt you into going ahead and doing it!

How do I delete iWeb gallery already deleted in iPhoto?

Can anyone tell me how to eliminate a gallery of photos I published using iWeb from an iPhoto folder that no longer exists? I can't find anything on this. All I get is to go to iPhoto, Preferences, iWeb Gallery and delete from there. But since my album no longer exists in iPhoto, can't can do that, as it doesn't appear in the drop-down menu. HOW can I get rid of this stupid album?

I am replying to my own question with a clarification and further question. I have now tried the fixes suggested in the forum on this, but to no avail. When I go to iDisk>Web>Sites>Gallery blah blah, there is nothing there to delete. Doing the preferences thing in iPhoto does nothing. I have tried recreating an empty album in iPhoto and attempting to publish that so that it would be uploaded and overwrite the gallery I am trying to get rid of with nothing. Doesn't work, and anyway, there would still be an empty gallery up there even if it did. This is very frustrating.

Aperture web gallery - how to link back to main page from iWeb?

Okay, this may be simple, but I can't figure it out.
I created and uploaded a few web pages with iWeb to my dot.Mac account (web.mac.com/f8lee50) just to get a feel for things. I then created a web gallery with Aperture and uploaded it - naturally Aperture generated a URL for the gallery, which I set up as a link on my "Photos from Hawaii" page (the link is the word 'this' in the second paragraph, if you wawnt to look).
Okay, so this gets me from the "photos from Hawaii" page to the gallery, and within the gallery I can jump to the various images etc. But how does one navigate back to the "Photos from Hawaii" page from whence they came? Is there some sort of smart link that can be inserted (by Aperture?) that will send the viewer back to the main homepage? Or are the Aperture galleries essentially dead ends?

Richard, thanks for responding - I'll check that tutorial.
And thank you for the kind words, me100finn. I have not played with any variables as far as layout on the gallery (I did a bunch of stuff with the books, but the web gallery seems far less flexible) so I cannot answer your wuestion about the gray shadows.
Steve, thank you for the additional clarification (and the hint about spaces in URLs) - I guess what this all boils down to is that the web galleries from Aperture are not all that useful when they are meant to be a part of a bigger overall site. I'm not sure of what you meant when you say they have little forward or backward navigation in them - at least you can click on a thumbnail to get to an image, click next or previous or the grid to get back to the thumbnail galery. But, 'twould seem that hand coding HTML pages (the very thing I was hoping to avoid) is the only way to really integrate them. Given that, I gues the better approach will be just to use iWeb to load the images anyway.
Well, folks, thank you all for your answers. Until I do a re-do, I guess the back button is the way to go (which, for the record, I did sorta figure out myself

Trouble Creating an iWeb "Hub Page"

Have been away from iWeb for a while, but now need some reminders on how to do a few things which I can't seem to find the commands for, but which I'm assuming should be relatively simple -- and that assumption is probably my first mistake!
The Project: Am needing to create a kind of iWeb "Hub-Page", which basically consists of a header, title graphic, etc. (that part's ready to go), and then four "poster-frame" images (let's say sized roughly 320x240), each of which is a link to either an Aperture-published Gallery (but one which is "invisible" to my other Galleries); an Aperture-published web page; or an iWeb-created Photo and/or Albums page.
In an ideal world, it would be great if each of these poster-image hyperlinks could be mouse-skimmed so the visitor could preview the contents before actually activating the link -- but I'm guessing that may still not yet be possible. What I definitely DON'T want is the automatic, never-ending "slideshow" effect I see when I try using the MobileMe Gallery widget.
So, my general questions are:
1) If using the MM Gallery widget, how do you simply disable that auto-cycling preview effect? (Surely there's an option for at least that much somewhere -- like the animation controls for a My Albums page.)
2) Also, how do you get the preview thumbs to fit within whatever image frame size you've set, rather than the ugly default whereby they get arbitrarily cropped when their aspect ratios and their horizontal/vertical alignments differ from that of the image frame?
3) And is there an equivalent way to link "dynamically" (i.e. with the mouse-scrubbing ability) from iWeb to an Aperture-published +web page+ (as opposed to a Gallery album), or even to a separate iWeb-published photo page (one which is either part of the same overall site, or a page from a separate site)?
4) OR... (if the answers to 1-3 are basically "it's 2010, and iWeb is still glued to coverage of the 2004 Summer Games in Athens"), should I just forget about widgets, and mouse-skimming, and simply drag in four representative images, make each a hyperlink to whichever MobileMe Gallery, Aperture Web Page, or other iWeb page I desire, and be done with it?
And if the answer to #4 is a firm "Yes", is there any way I can still have a uniform navigation bar across the top of each page, allowing for quick flipping between them? (...in other words, to have these various Galleries and individual photo pages -- each with their own unique URLs -- all appear within some kind of frame *when accessed via this new iWeb "hub page" I'm creating*... or will the visitor always have to click Back to the hub-page in order to then go to one of the other pages represented there?)
Hope that made some sense -- any guidance on any of the above will be much appreciated.
Thanks,
John B.
Toronto

Wyodor wrote:
So basically you're saying you do not like the default features of iWeb, MobileMe Gallery and all that, and you actually want a custom website. If that's the case, the short answer is: design it yourself. But it requires study, effort, finding solutions, practice, finding alternatives and more study. It's called webdesign. And for the most parts, you gave the answers yourself. So do what you want.
To be fair -- and perhaps my original intent wasn't clear -- I was really just trying to get clarification on a few of those iWeb, MobileMe Gallery, and related-app defaults, especially the current extent and limitations of their configurability. I stress "current", since any application default -- and whatever options exist to change its parameters -- is obviously a constantly changing and ever-evolving process. One version's "sorry, no way" scenario is often the next version's empowering new feature.
For instance...
1. Create the webpages you want to link to.
2. On the hub page add the four images.
3. Hyperlink the images to the pages you created in 1.
Which is indeed the Plan B scenario I outlined in item #4 of my original post, and which is essentially what I did in fact end up doing.
That original post was primarily an attempt to see if my Plan A scenario was an iWeb possibility yet (as I mentioned, having been largely away from the app since the previous version). I figure it's best to check these forums first before sending off more suggestions and feature requests to Apple Feedback, since it sometimes happens that the capability I'm seeking has in fact been implemented, and I'm just not looking in the right place.
And there's always a very grey area between configuring and customizing, especially in the area of web design -- iWeb itself being a good example. For all its easy-to-use, pre-defined templates (and thank goodness for them), iWeb does in fact also allow for a great deal of website customization in many areas. There are certainly a number of things of which it's now capable, which if proposed in the days of version 1 would have merited the response: "you're asking for a custom site -- learn how to code and design it yourself".
Much of what I'd like to be able to do is just that -- nice if available as an already-impemented feature, but not essential, and certainly not something I could justify spending large amounts of time learning how to achieve manually. Especially since this morning's non-configurable default is this afternoon's Feedback suggestion and next Tuesday's exciting new feature.
(Okay, maybe next month's.)
But as for any unrealistic expectations, my only true annoyance with any current default is when it seems arbitrarily limiting -- case in point being the automatic slideshow preview feature of the MM Gallery widget, which apparently comes with absolutely no "Off" switch. To me that just makes little if any sense, and runs counter to the general spirit of user-friendliness we've come to expect in our Apple apps, whether consumer or pro level. It's as if certain kinds of links (say to any external page) automatically included an engagingly cute musical intro, and there was no option to disable that default. It might be a fun feature, even a very cool one, but to make it mandatory, with no way to NOT have it enabled? I'd say that's a default that clearly needs to be changed (as in: made optional).
So would still love to hear from anyone who may have found a way to do this in iWeb '09 -- failing which, I'll definitely be adding that to my next batch of iWeb Feedback notes. Only question will be: whether to label it a Feature Request, or a Bug Report?
(BTW, for any humorously-challenged readers, that last question was meant as a joke.)
Thanks again though to Wyodor for taking the time to respond.
jb

IWeb and Mountain Lion

Hello folks,
Through this community, I learned I can't download iWeb to install in Mountain Lion, I need to use an iLife DVD.
OK, I have a MacBook running Snow Leopard and also the DVD that came with it where is iWeb, I believe into iLife. Using exactly my MacBook drive as a remote disc for my new 21.5" iMac, I tried to install, but always get a message saying software in the disc or is already installed in the iMac or it isn't compatible and doesn't allow me to proceed.
Does anybody can help?
Thanks in advance Paulo

Hello OT, Wyodor and ErikDM
First of all thank you all for the suggestions.
I am not sure I understood correctly what you folks suggested, so I'd appreciate some additional guidance.
In my MacBook Applications folder I do have the application iWeb.app, as well as, I also have iDVD.app.
OT suggest alternatively that I should copy this or these applications to a folder I'd create into the Applications folder, copy this folder to my new ML iMac and click on the applications to install or run those; or just copy the iWeb.app to the new iMac. Did I get it correctly?
I already made Library visible in Mountain Lion and in the MacBook my Domain.sites2 is easyly accessible at Home/Library/Application Support.
Did I get OT right understanding I need to copy the iWeb folder from the MacBook and paste in the Application Support in the iMac?
I believe Wyodor Says that to move (or copy?) my Domain.sites2 from MacBook to the new iMac I need to use iWebSites. Am I right?
Finally, ErikDM advises on how to do after moving the domain (I believe with the help of iWebSites) and I am also understanding the double click is to be made over Domain.sites2, Right?.
I have one final doubt. Even if I understood correctly your suggestions, I haven't installed iWeb in the new ML machine. With the suggested procedures, will the iMac do that automatically?
Again, thanks a lot for the suggestions and forgive for annoying once more with these clarifications request
Regards Paulo

IWeb deleted folder on my HD with same name as website

The folder with all my projects in it was deleted when I published a website from iWeb with the same name. The files did not go into the trash - they simply vanished. Is there any way to get these files back? Keep in mind I didn't publish to .mac - I publish "to a folder". PLEASE HELP!!

I think the problem is more like this. Take a folder
named "AllMyImportantWork" in the Documents
directory. In iWeb, if you choose to publish to a
folder, the folder you choose to publish to is
"Documents" and the site you're creating is
"AllMyImportantWork", iWeb will stomp all over that
other directory regardless of if it contained iWeb
stuff or other important documents.
That is a very good point! I hadn't conceptualized that particular scenario, but you're right--regardless of the nature of the files in the folder, all could be lost; what a potential for disaster!
I think iWeb should look inside a folder for an iWeb
structure before overwriting it to prevent this kind
of accident.
I agree. Perhaps 2.0 will address this...
Backing up the Domain file wouldn't help
this, but backing up the entire computer would.
Right on all counts...I was actually thinking more along the lines of having previous versions of a site saved by way of backed up Domain files, but the OP's point was overwriting of unrelated files. Great clarification!

Using iweb, should I change my website name?

I have had a website that is build in iweb that has been live for some time. I've got great placement on google. I own my new domain name, and it's right now pointed at my old site name. I am now changing my site name, but for now I'm changing the header to my new site name, not the title of the site url. So if it comes up in searches, it will still come up listed as the old name, and the pages are all listed under the old name in the url. BUT you read my new site name on the top of the page. If they read and remember that that name, and try to look for it again, they might not find me. Should I change my site name too? Can I just change the name of the site in iweb and that will take care of it?
For clarification, my old site is www.vintagehomelighting.com. My new site is www.vintagehomelighting.com.

Are you asking...
"Should I change the site name to 'filament-vintage-lighting' so that the URL to any page would be http://www.vintagehomelighting/filament-vintage-lighting/page-name.html" ?

How to make a short name of iweb

Hi.. anyone have an idea to make a short name of iweb when my friends ask about " what's your web name... I cant remember cause it too long " like mind ... http://web.mac.com/jokertgfoto/iWeb/joker/Welcome.html how can I make....http://[email protected] . I need mac to solve this help too. Many thanks

Well, as far as telling people about your iWeb URL, all you have to tell them is the short iWeb URL...
http://web.mac.com/jokertgfoto
This will always lead to your default starting homepage, which is set in the SiteOrganizer in iWeb. So you don't have to specify the rest of the URL as you have typed out....that's an improvement already, isn't it?
But if you like, you can get register for you own domain name at any number of places like GoDaddy or Yahoo or 1&1...there are LOTS of domain registrars. This should cost somewhere in the vicinity of $10 a year. Then once you have your domain name, you can setup a feature of domain names called "Domain Forwarding". This will link your domain name to your iWeb URL so that anyone who types your domain name, like http://www.jokertgfoto.com will get taken directly to http://web.mac.com/jokertgfoto
I hope this answers your question, but feel free to post back if you need any clarification.

Upgrading iWeb 1.1.2 to IWeb 09...will I have to create a new website?

Like many others I see here, I am suffering with the error msg's when trying to publish my website now that MobileMe is up and running - basically it is a blog-based site and I know that MM and the old blogs are just not getting along..... I am debating whether to even continue with my MobileMe subscription but that is another thread.....
If I can find a solution to my publishing issues and decide to continue with MobileMe and then I buy the new iLife 09 it seems like from what I have read that I will need to completely scrap my old website and rebuild it. Is this really true? And if it is, why would I buy iLife 09 and rebuild my site (not an easy task) when it seems like this same scenario might happen repeatedly on future upgrades?
I'm really confused and before I contact the 24 hour help thought I would post here to see if I can get some clarification.
Thanks in advance.

No. If you upgrade to 09 you would not have to re-build your site. iWeb 09 will be able to open your iWeb 06 built site - they are not backward compatible, but 09 should be able to open 06 without a problem.
Just make sure that you back up your domain files before you upgrade - so Home User/Library/Application Support/iWeb/domain.sites.

IWeb sites can't be found by Google

This can't be real: No iWeb site can be found by Google bots.
Apple offers an app for people who are NOT html-savvy (everyone else would use a different, more professional app) - and if they want their sites to be found by Google or any other search engine, they have to find (and pay) a web designer.
Not only that no meta tags are added. All main text is turned into something else, a picture format maybe, I don't know, but I can't select those texts in Safari any more - they aren't text any more. Thus, Google can't find the titles, main texts and picture subtitles either.
Or have I missed something withing the related threads here?
Thanks a lot for a clarification
Peter

Peter,
Glad you figured out the text-to-png problem. The real text should definitely help once Google's spiders crawl your site. I think the real answer is that it just takes time. When you add pages or blog entries or whatever, try to use what might be more unique keywords in your titles or phrases that might make your webpage more visible in search results. Once I did an experiment on my own blog and used "Paris Hilton" in the entry. It took about a week, but sure enough depending on your search terms, my little page shot up to number one out of about 1.6 million sites. Lasted probably for about 3 weeks that way. Pretty funny.
So I guess what I am trying to say is that ALL of the search engines will eventually find your site (even with all of iWeb's crazy URLs). The real quest if you care about these things (sounds like you do) is how to get your pages closer to the top of the heap when it does get noticed. That is where you have more control...page titles and text and also unique links to your pages from other sites. Start "optimizing" your pages now and it will pay off later.
==> www.DirtDoog.com <==</a>
Place A Virtual Pin On Putt-Putt's GuestMap!

IWeb needs simple MySQL integration!

iWeb could be a fantastic program if it had MySQL integration, especially for those of us Mac users who like building CMS type sites. Better yet, iWeb would be the #1 web tool if it could build templates for Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, etc., from within the App.

Thanks guys for the "heads up." However, I am extremely familiar with php, apache, and hosts.
I guess my suggestion deserves more explanation.
If iWeb contained a "Tables" and "Fields" manager, something similar to Navicat's MySQL tool, within its code base, then iWeb could allow a CMS or CRM to be built right within the app that doesn't require 3rd party involvement. It would also spark some great "security" opportunities for webmasters using iWeb.
It would allow a user to build a user table, giving the designer more flexibility in "who can see what" on the iWeb site. It would certainly up the viability of iWeb's use by Mac Users because it would better support "automated dynamic content." By iWeb having the ability to connect directly with MySQL (which comes with OS X), iWeb could become the Mac users choice for simple CMS and CRM website development / prototyping.
I especially dislike the proprietary nature of iWeb's abilities, in that, I have to pay for an Apple Hosting account that is far too limited on features and offerings for its cost. iWeb needs work, and I think experienced webmaster input is important for Apple to better satisfy the needs / desires of its consumers.
Maybe that clarifies what I meant by this post a little better?
Walt.
Message was edited by: Soundman5

Cannot publish from iWeb 08 after upgrading to Leopard

When I click on Publish from iWeb I first get a window .Mac Information asking me to login and a smaller window saying "logging in to iWeb". I click on sign in button from .Mac Information window and then get the System Preferences window telling me I am signed in and giving me my account status. From here nothing happens. The "logging into iWeb" message stays and nothing happens.
What should I do?

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.
At least we now have our first update out there in two weeks. But it took almost two hours to copy the folder and this won't work forever. Hopefully we, whether by the discussion room or .mac support next week, will be able to fix the problem for real.
Thanks. Good Luck. Merry Christmas

How do I stop iWeb outputting multiple image files? It makes my site slow!

I'm a professional web designer (but don't let that put you off) who uses Dreamweaver and also handcodes HTML & CSS websites at work on a PC, but having got a new Mac for home use I thought I'd give iWeb a go for a personal site hosted on .Mac, showcasing my music and film efforts, that I didn't want to have to think about coding.
I've built a short little site using the attractive 'Travel' theme, just 5 or 6 pages so far, and have not yet added any multimedia content. However, it seemed to take ages to upload it when I published it to .Mac. So then I went to view it, and it was soooo sloooow to download each page, even on my 4mb cable connection. I know it's a fairly graphically-rich theme, but still!
I noticed that it was redrawing the navigation menu each time... and upon close inspection of the HTML code using Safari's 'View Source' to my horror I found out that that each page has a seperate '_files' folder that contains multiple versions of files that are also used in other pages - including navigation buttons and background images. I also saw that every element has styling applied to it 'inline' in the code, rather than in a single seperate style-sheet.
To confirm this I published it to a folder on my hard drive and checked it all out. What a mess!
As a WYSIWYG web page editor iWeb is great but it's an undisputable fact that the HTML markup and CSS code it produces is absolutely appaling. What's worse though is that it also renders whole swaithes of text as images and that it does create seperate folders for each pages content including images, CSS code and navigation buttons - so even though the same images and code are used throughout the site for the background and buttons and layout, they are written out as seperate files and have to be reloaded with every page!!!
This means that the .Mac server must be getting hammered and webpages are very slow to download and slow to render in Safari - it's almost like dialup when I'm viewing my iWebsite, and like I said, I've got a 4mb cable connection!
Looking at the code iWeb produces, it is good to see that tables are not used for layout, and that's one thing in its favour. But surely the whole point of providing 'themed' templates for users is that the same content is used across the site and therefore doesn't need to be created multiple times - one of the benefits of using CSS stylesheets. Why doesn't iWeb create a single stylesheet and make efficient use of repeated images instead of creating multiple instances of the same file for each page?
Perhaps there is a setting somewhere I've missed. If so, let me know someone!
It is a great WYSIWYG editor, but behind the scenes it's not efficient, it's not clean and simple and it's certainly not attractive - and I'm surprised at that coming from Apple! I know iWeb is a great tool for beginners and I'm a picky professional, but if I was Joe Public First Time Web Designer I'd be very annoyed by this.
Clean it up and sort it out Mr Jobs!
PS: Also, where does iWeb store the website whilst it's in production? I can't find it anywhere?

Your iWeb Site is stored not on your iDisk, but on a file named Domain.sites in your ~/Home/Library/Application Support/iWeb/ Folder.
If , for whatever reason, you wipe your HD and/or lose this file (Get a new computer, Re-Install your OS, Stolen Laptop, Crashed HD, Etc.) without backing-up your Domain.sites file then you will have to re-build your iWeb sites from scratch again.
Of course you can edit your Published HTML files in a different program such as Dreamweaver or even Text Edit. You just can't edit Published HTML files in iWeb. Not at this time at least.
Use iWebBackup to backup your Domain file to a Blank CD or DVD. Backing up your Domain file to another folder on your computer is not fully backing it up. If your computer gets stolen you still lost the file but if you have your Domain file burned onto a CD you have a backup!
Download iWebBackup Here
You can use iWebExtender to automatically consolidate your files into one folder and delete multiple images.
http://iWebFAQ.com

How can I use iweb 1.1.2 for more than one user account on my macbook?

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:
In the user account which does not let you start a new page, save, etc. — Quit iWeb. Start iPhoto. Select a couple of photos, click on the iWeb icon at lower right and choose Photo Page. iWeb will open up and invite you to choose a template for your new Photos page. Choose any template so that the page is created and then delete that newly created page.
...Now perhaps things are no longer greyed out in iWeb.

Iweb Clarifications?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for