Iweb pages all jumbled

After a period of NOT updating website........open to find text on one website all jumbled up. Website appears OK online........but not sure what to do and/or how to change.
Have a couple other websites that appear OK
Any ideas?

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).
3 - launch iWeb and try again.
NOTE: 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.
If you're running Mavericks, 10.9, go to your Home folder and use the View ➙ Show View Options menu to bring the this window:
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Can no longer update one of my iWeb pages (all others are working properly)

I have an iWebsite with several pages. One of these pages is no longer working correctly. The page that is causing problems contains a series of text boxes and hyperlinks (which allow people to download PDFs). I can no longer update the vast majority of this page, nor can I see where the different text boxes start or begin. (I am currently only able to change the title, not the body.)
When I go online to look at the actual published site, I am able to download all of the desired PDFs, however I cannot highlight or copy any of the text written on the page (this is not the case for the other pages of the website).
I have updated this page several times over the last few years and have never run into this problem. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what might be wrong and/or how I might remedy the situation?
Thank you in advance!!! Your advice is much appreciated!

+You mean you can't see the text or can't see the text box sides and drag points?+
+Do a Select All and see what you see.+
When I select all I am able to see the text box that houses the body of the page.
+What happens if you were to click in the center of the page and hit the delete key (you can always do an Undo command)?+
Nothing happens. I can only delete the entire page (using the select all approach).
+What happens if you click on the center of the page and drag to one side or another?+
Nothing happens when I do this. I can move this main text box by moving each side individually.
+I can see the text in the page's html file and it is an image file: http://web.mac.com/naomieisenberger/san/NaomiEisenberger_SAN_Papers_files/shapeimage1.png. If you go to the page it's a very fine, 1 pixel, image at the very top of the page. You'll see the cursor change to a magnifying glass. At that time click and drag to the desktop. It won't look like you're dragging anything till you get to the desktop.+
Yes, this is the problem. This space is acting as if (or rather has been) converted to a graphic. Each reference listed on that page has been entered separately over time. It seems like the last time this section was updated it was saved as an image/graphic. I am not even sure how this would have happened or how to undo this issue. Do you know or have any further suggestions?
Is there a way to view the html code on iWeb. . . to just work in code?
+So you have to somehow figure out how to get it back to plain text. Do you have iWeb's preferences set to display the text image indicator?+
Yes, there is a small yellow symbol.
+You may have to create a new page to replace this one.+
Thank you so much for all of the great advice!

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I have been using iWeb for my blog (hosted by mobileme) and it has all been working fine. However earlier today I opened it and all the pages have turned from blue to red even though I have made no changes since I last updated it. iWeb won't let me revert to saved (it is greyed out) and when I try to re-publish the site it says I do not have enough space and that my iDisk storage is full (it shows this on my site publishing settings as well) even though when I go to my iDisk settings in system preferences I have lots of space left. Anyone have any ideas what is going on and how I can fix the problem?

This too is occurring on my system. The domain I am working with currently contains seven sites; six publishing to my Mobile Me account, and one publishing local to a file folder. I have a series of domain files backed up to experiment in evaluating this issue. I have attempted the resolution steps described in "iWeb: Issues publishing to MobileMe" article TS2588 Last Modified: February 16, 2009, however, the issue persists.
When publishing one of the six sites to Mobile Me, upon successful completion, some of the other sites that had previously been successfully published/updated, and reflected as "blue," change to be represented as requiring changes to be published reflected as "red."
Note that there are links in the Main site that point to resources on the other sites and this appears to possibly be related to what is occurring. Also, I have noted that, although the sites that change to "red" in this instance when making them active, by selecting one of the page within the "red" site, the publish button is inactive indicating the site is actually not requiring publishing/update contrary to its icons changing from "blue" to "red."
Seems like a pretty straight forward issue. I suspect the Apple iWeb team will resolve it real soon once everyone returns from the holidays, if not sooner; although, we don't want to be Scrooges do we.
In the meantime, I recommend using the technique of using the publish button at the lower left of the iWeb pane to determine if "Publish Entire" or Publish Changes" is truly required. And, to be sure, simply check the content online. Remember to empty your browser cache (under the File Menu in Safari, and in Advanced, Tools, or Security in other browsers) so you can be sure your obtaining the most current content.
Little software hiccups like this is not unusual in all applications no matter what computer platform. It can be frustrating, but don't let it be. When encountering minor issues like this try to be philosophical. If you get frustrated, simply step away and move onto something else for a while before revisited it and figure a way to work around it until a resolution to the problem is made available. Typically, major issues get fixed real quickly, but minor issues take a back seat to the major ones.
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I think this may be the first time I've published my web page to the net with 08 and its not translated some of the images. A couple new pictures i've added are only showing as a question mark and parts of the actual apple template art are also question marks on a page i created a while ago. Also, some fonts are large, etc. I've refreshed and republished several times with no change. something isn't translating or something. If someone could lend a bit of help, this would be much appreciated.
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http://web.mac.com/jasonmccarty/iWeb/Jamison
(notice also how the two photos on the right side are fuzzy and not the ones i've just added.)
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If you can see html code, then you have the wrong file and it is a published version of your site which iWeb can do nothing with - iWeb has no import facility so cannot open any html files.
Go back and ensure that you have the correct domain.sites files that can be found under your User Library/Application Support/iWeb/domain.sites and if you have Mavericks then you need to go to Go and press the alt key to reveal your hidden User Library, so that you can then get to Application Support and then iWeb and then your domain.sites file.
You will also need to go and download either DomainCracker or iWebSwitch which allows you to open individual domain files under Mavericks, because from Lion onwards, you cannot open individual domain files.
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Please pardon the reply delay--a big project deadline had to be met. Now back to this work:
Yes, the text in the oval object had a drop shadow (the oval object itself did not). I removed the drop shadow from the text, but the image file icon stayed in the right corner of the oval object. I deleted the text and then the image file icon disappeared. But as soon as I typed text again inside the oval object (not even pasting the previous text) the image file icon appeared again. I deleted the oval object entirely and simply typed the text inside the main text box itself. The image file icon that was attached to that oval object is gone (along with the oval object).
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Next I tried this: I copied the text from the problem text box and pasted it into another text box (outside of the problem one). Still in the new text box with the pasted text, the image file icon shows in the upper right corner.
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Copying iweb pages from one computer to another

I have iweb pages operational on a G5.
I want to transfer them to iweb on my macbook instead.
I don't want to re-create them from scratch.
I have a .mac account.
Both iweb programs are the same version.
This is a mac! There must be an easy way to copy the web pages from one computer to another!
I explored the domain file route, copied the file from my G5 to the macbook, and did not get the pages I wanted. Instead I got the start page template. My information was not there.
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All your information is in a single file called "domain"
By default it should be located in your
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I use multiple computers to edit iWeb and to avoid confusion as to which "domain" file is the most recent, I just keep it on a flash drive. Be sure to keep "domain" backed up safely on your computers and off (CD disks, external hard drives, etc) because if you lose that one file, you've lost all your work. iWeb cannot edit published pages.
The reason you got blank pages is that you have to double click on the newly moved "domain" file to start up iWeb. Otherwise iWeb will start from the blank "domain" file that is already on the computer. You can have many "domain" files on the computer, If you start the iWeb application by clicking the iWeb icon, it will open the last "domain" file edited on that computer, which isn't the one you just moved. There is no other way to access your work.
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Here's a work-a-round:
Step 1.) Open iWeb and add a new page to your iWeb site. Pick any template, it doesn't matter which one.
Step 2.) Change the page name to whatever you want using the page inspector. Whatever you choose as a name here will be reflected in the main navigation menu. For example, I named my page "Photo Archives".
Step 3.) You don't need to edit this new page at all. In fact, we're going to erase all of the content in it later. Now publish your site.
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Step 6.) Select all of the text (Command-A) and Delete.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title></title><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://www.mydomain.com/mypage.html" /></head><body></body></html>
Step 8.) Save the file. You're done! You now have a link in the main navigation which goes to any URL you want.
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Hi,
I'm OK to step seven but in your example can you highlight or make bold the "url address part " I'm to replace with my own?
Thanks!
Step 6.) Select all of the text (Command-A) and
Delete.
Step 7.) Paste the following text, substituting the
URL you want to link to.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.d
td"><html
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title></ti
tle><meta http-equiv="refresh"
content="0;url=http://www.mydomain.com/mypage.html"
/></head><body></body></html>
Step 8.) Save the file. You're done! You now have a
link in the main navigation which goes to any URL you
want.
Mac OS X
(10.4.4)
G4 iMac,1.25 iBook, G4 Tower Mac OS X (10.4.3)

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