Iweb site feedback and friends?

hi all,
i used to use these forums a lot; however, i stopped that a while ago. I currently have started using iWeb a lot and am looking for feedback on my site and any one that wants to add me as an ichat buddy to bounce ideas and stuff off of. If you are willing to at least give some feedback check out my site at :
http://www.andrewfosterphotography.net
thanks a lot ahead of time, and feel free to add me to ichat if u want!

I don't know why your first page takes so long to load. There's only 10 files that have to load and the largest is only 79 KB. It does take a ridiculously long time to load. You can see what files are loading by going to the Window->Activity menu option while in the page. That will tell you what files are part of the page and their size. Some background images are taking forever to load.
What theme are you using? The loading time is way beyond normal. I checked some of my sites today and they loaded very quickly. All I can think of, and it's a shotgun approach, is to do a Publish All to MobileMe and see if that won't refresh and speed up the load time. I'm not sure WebMaestro will help all that much as most all of the files are very small to start with. But I've not used it so can't be sure.
2 - no, not with iWeb. With other web deveopement apps you could load a file to a folder and then link to that from all pages it's to be on.
3 - again, not easily with iWeb. You can embed a page within another page but to click on a link and have that page pop up in a section of the page would require a good knowledge of javascript. Maybe Cyclosaurus or Wyodor could give you an idea of how to implement that.

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Iweb site feedback

Hi everyone,
I am an athletic director at a small school and have been using iweb to create an athletics site (http://web.me.com/mauiprep). Before I go live with the site, I thought I would bounce some ideas/feedback off this group. I am hoping to do all these things while using iweb.
Here are some issues I am dealing with:
1. Really slow. I am hoping web maestro might help with this somewhat, but I am not holding my breath. Any other thoughts? The page file sizes don't seem too large compared to different websites, yet it still takes a long time.
2. Same components on all pages. Because the basic structure of the site remains unchanged regardless of what page you are on, is there a way to not have to keep reloading the "static components"?
3. Page within page. For the various team pages, I have created fake tabs (recent news, schedules, records) that take you to different content pertaining to that team. However, they aren't acting as true tabs because they just take you to a whole brand new page (which takes a long time to load!!). How can keep the tabs within one page?
Any other thoughts?

I don't know why your first page takes so long to load. There's only 10 files that have to load and the largest is only 79 KB. It does take a ridiculously long time to load. You can see what files are loading by going to the Window->Activity menu option while in the page. That will tell you what files are part of the page and their size. Some background images are taking forever to load.
What theme are you using? The loading time is way beyond normal. I checked some of my sites today and they loaded very quickly. All I can think of, and it's a shotgun approach, is to do a Publish All to MobileMe and see if that won't refresh and speed up the load time. I'm not sure WebMaestro will help all that much as most all of the files are very small to start with. But I've not used it so can't be sure.
2 - no, not with iWeb. With other web deveopement apps you could load a file to a folder and then link to that from all pages it's to be on.
3 - again, not easily with iWeb. You can embed a page within another page but to click on a link and have that page pop up in a section of the page would require a good knowledge of javascript. Maybe Cyclosaurus or Wyodor could give you an idea of how to implement that.

IWeb site saves AND publishes, without the option to publish or not

I cannot make any changes, and save them, unless I want the page published on this site:
http://web.mac.com/joneve/ThePeregrine_Muse/Whoshere.html
On another site I can save changes I make and then I'm prompted to choose publish or don't publish the page.
With the first site, where saving constitutes publishing, I can't work ahead. I can't make any changes until I'm ready to publish them. So I can't do part of a page, or update a page, and save my work to be published later.
This happens with every page on this site - it doesn't matter whether there's only text, or text and graphic or music files - any change that gets saved gets published immediately.
What could be the problem and how can I correct it?
Any suggestions will be very appreciated.
Thanks.

What happens when you select "save" from the file menu or do < command S > ?

OT: Site Feedback and Mac Check

Can someone take a look at this on a Mac and let me know if
it looks ok.
If anyone has any comments on the site, that'd be great too.
http://65.36.247.214
(formerly
http://www.mcdonaldco.com)
Thanks!
Dan

Well, Safari mainly. I am not really up to par with IE5 - but
thanks for
letting me know!
Dan
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>>> .oO(Dan Galfano)
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>>>> Can someone take a look at this on a Mac
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>> do you mean on Safari? or on IE5?
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> anyways I just checked on both and the site looks very
fine
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>> and let me know if it looks ok.
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>>>>
>>>> If anyone has any comments on the site,
that'd be great too.
>>>>
>>>>
http://65.36.247.214
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>>> The form at the bottom "Search for Replacement
Parts" should be done
>>> with a 'fieldset' and 'legend' element.
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>>> Micha
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Built iWeb site for friend with my account. How can I transfer site to his?

Hi everybody. I recently finished creating an iWeb site for a friend while using my MobileMe account. What's the best way to transfer this site to his MobileMe account (so his username, etc. shows up in the url; not mine). I'd like to avoid having to rebuild the entire site while using his version of iWeb/MobileMe.
Am I in trouble or is there a solution?
Thanks in advance!

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Will your friend be maintaining the site once it's published to his MobileMe account? If so just copy the domain.sites2 file containing his site to his computer and put it in his User/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder. Once he logs into his MobileMe account via the System/MobileMe preference pane he can make changes and published them to his account.
If you also have a site in that same domain file, duplicate that file, open it with iWeb and delete your site before transferring it to your friend's Mac. Then delete his site from your domain file leaving just your own site. You can delete his site from your MMe account by mounting your iDisk, going to the iDisk/Web/Site folder and deleting the folder that has his site's name.
OT

How do I link an iWeb site to a Yahoo store?

Hi all,
I designed an iWeb site for a friend, she is hosted at Yahoo Small Business. She also wanted to use Yahoo ecommerce does anyone know how to link an iWeb site to a Yahoo store? Yahoo uses store tags which they tell me can't be used in iWeb I was hoping to just link the ecommerce store I created in Yahoo to a store link in iWeb like a separate page. But I don't know how or if that will work. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Marilyn

Hi,
LOL, you are absolutely correct I am moaning and groaning and you are correct about the tech suport the reason I am so frustrated.
The website is www.papeteriecollections.com (iWeb)
The Yahoo store is store.papeteriecollections.com
The yahoo store is set up to the point of store tags. I was able to link the store to the site itself but not the items in the store to the items in the website. That's where the tags come in. From yahoo I copied their code from the item and then pasted it into iWeb. The link worked from iWeb back to the yahoo store, but not after publishing it. So then I tried the (html snippet) in iWeb and pasted the store tag code in there at the bottom of one of the items in my site, and order button appeared. (good thing) but it didn't work either. please see below:
I hope this makes better sense and I apologize for being a baby!
Thanks
Marilyn

How to transfer an iWeb site from one MobileMe account to another.

I am creating an iWeb site for a friend. I am doing this using my mac and my MobileMe account. I understand that the iWeb site assets are all stored in my MobileMe iDisk. I want to take the finished site and transfer it to my friends computer and his MobileMe iDisk so he can manage it from there. How do I do this.

If you have your friends MobileMe login details, then you can publish the site to his MMe account directly from your Mac. Go to System Preferences and log out of your MMe account and then into his and then go back to iWeb and then publish the site directly to his MMe account.
As far as giving him the ability to manage the sites, just give him the relevant domain file for the site. Go to User/Library/Application Support/iWeb/domain.sites and find the domain file and then you can e-mail it to his Mac and he can then put the domain file in the same place on his Mac.
Whatever you do, don't publish the site to your desktop - you won't be able to do anything with it. It is the domain file that you need if your friend wants to manage and alter the site in any way.

IWeb file structure and naming system

I am trying to publish my iWeb directly to my domain (www.jessewarren.net) using the FTP direct publish function. However, iWeb is applying an overly complex naming system.
For example, its publishing not only the page names, but also the name of the Site in iWeb, after the original URL. Here's an example: http://jessewarren.net/testing/Site/Blank.html
First, I need everything to be on the domain. Then, I only need the name of the individual pages to be published, not the Site Name itself. I already have a site name, and that's my domain.
Any other advice on how to control file structure and naming in iWeb?

This is not incorrect and it is the way iWeb publishes and has done ever since iWeb 06. When you publish from iWeb to a local folder, what you get is your Site folder with your site name and a separate index file.
If you don't want your site name included, then what you need to do is rather than using the direct ftp from iWeb, select ftp to a local folder instead. Your site will then be published to your desktop. Then download either Cyberduck or Transmit for free - these are dedicated ftp programs. Then all you do is load just the contents of your site folder to your public_html folder on your server and your url will then be http://www.domain.com/pagename.html.
Be aware though, that if you are loading like this, you are breaking iWeb site structure and RSS feed will not be available to you if you need to use it.
If you want to continue to use the built in iWeb ftp, then you could try naming your site public_html and then leaving the directory blank and then uploading like this and because you have named your site public_html and are uploading to the same place, your public_html folder on your server will be replaced with your website, thus eliminating the site name.
I have tried this method once myself with my own site and it does work, however, I still prefer to publish to a folder and then upload to my sever using Cyberduck.

Viewing iWeb site in OS9 browser - anyone done it successfully?

Hi folks - I made an iWeb site yesterday and although it looks great on my OS X system under Firefox and Safari, my husband running OS 9.2.1 on a G4/733 cannot view the site successfully at all.
In IE 5.0 it loaded up OK but the menu links at the top of the home page didn't work, in Netscape (7, I think) the layout is all over the place, iCab 3 loads the layout OK, the menu links work, but it only briefly flashes the placed images up and then they vanish again. Has anyone managed to view an iWeb site OK using an OS9 browser? Any ideas what the problem is?
Thanks a lot!
Deb.
G4 DP 867 MDD, PB G3/333 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Thanks for your message Antonio. I did upgrade the version of IE to 5.1.7 but unfortunately the problem with th rollover links still remains. I am using the 'Formal' template and it's the small rollovers generated at the top of each page that don't work under that browser in OS9. I have got around the problem by manually including a second set of hyperlinks lower down on each page, to duplicate the rollovers, but this is a bit of a pain of course. Oh well, may just have to work on my DH to upgrade to OS X!
Thanks for your suggestion.
Deb.

How to copy iWeb blog to new iWeb site?

Hi Folks,
I am able to successfully move, via drag and drop, my blog from an old iWeb site to a new one in iWeb.
However, what I want to do is to preserve the old blog as a backup, and them start updating and chagging the blog contet in the new iWeb site. I actually use the blog on my site as a way to list courses.
I've tried to copy files in the iWeb site files, and then reopen iWeb, and I can't see the blog page listed.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Inoshi

To be able to drop and drag from one site to another in iWeb, you firstly need to have iWeb 09. You then need to open the relevant domain.sites file and you need to have the sites underneath each other, so Site1 above and then Site2 below and all you do is just click on the Blog page on Site1 and just drag it over and down to Site2.
You can't do it individually, but you need to drag from one site to another.
I would also advise that you don't use the iWeb blog, as it is not that good and there are better alternatives out there.
You might like to look at some new software too such as EverWeb - http://www.everwebapp.com. It is very like iWeb, but is actively supported and developed whereas for the last 2 years, iWeb has not been and has not been sold by Apple either.
If you wanted a better blogging system, you could transfer your whole website into WordPress.org. You need to install it on a server at your web host, but it might serve you better and you can create a blog it you want to and you can extend it with the use of plugins. Would not take too long to re-create depending on the size of your site and it is relatively easy to use compared to the other CMS's.
Think about changing before iWeb becomes unusable.

Problems uploading iWeb site, keychain issue

Hi
I updated my iWeb site yesterday and uploaded, everything fine.
I have done some amends this morning and then tried to upload. I get kicked backs with an offer to learn about MobileMe, which I already have. So I click the sign in button and it tells me I have a Keychain error which prevents access.
All looks fine in Keychain.
I have gone to system prefs and tried to access my MobileMe account. I am denied access.
I have tried deleting the plists from my library, no effect.
Anyone got any thoughts?
Thanks
Jon

Jon ~ Try this: Quit iWeb. Then  menu > System Preferences... > MobileMe icon > Account tab > click on Sign Out... Then enter a garbage name and password and try to sign in. This apparently clears the MobileMe preferences. Then enter your real username and password. Once signed in, quit System Preferences, open iWeb and see if you can publish.
If that doesn't help and no-one else chips in here with a suggestion, MobileMe live chat support is now 24/7 — see this announcement.

Is an iWeb site free?

Is an iWeb site free and can I take it down when I want? Would I be able to make it a private website?

Hanni ~ You don't have to pay for hosting an iWeb site:
http://www.000webhost.com
...More can be found by doing THIS. Some free browser-based site builders such as Weebly include free web hosting. However, some features (such as Weebly's privacy feature) may require a paid subscription.

Any ideas for a commenting system to allow feedback in iWeb sites?

With haloscan becoming echo and therefore costing to run now, what alternatives (outside mobileme) is there for an easy setup commenting system that can be run within an iWeb site. I am a school teacher with numbers of pupils who have portfolios/webs in iwb. They are working well but I want to give them and others a chance to post feedback on certain pages. We could make an iframe to a freebie commenting system but I am trying to more fully integrate.

See the Wufoo forms on these two of my demo pages: Embedding Forms & Encoding Email Addresses and Adding QT Movie for IE.
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I imported my iweb site files from my desktop to my laptop and now they wont open up in iweb

Hi,
I imported my iweb site files from my desktop to my laptop and now they wont open up in iweb.
I can see the files in the home/sites folder but cant seem to be able to replace them with the site that is already in iweb?
I have just upgraded to lion on the macbook pro and was using 10.4.x on the desktop.
Is there any way to replace the files and work on the web site on the MBP?
And I dont see the library/application support/iweb folder anywhere.
Much appreciate the feedback.
Thanks

As I said earlier, iWeb does not open/import webpages.
And yes, you need the domain file. The movie demonstrates how to move them to and from the default location.
And the page explains how to open the hidden library folder in Lion. Which is also discussed in the Lion forum and extensively in this one.

Have published iweb site for five years with no problems and just opened a new site and get - 404: Page not found This error is generated when there was no web page with the name you specified at the web site.-is the problem with iweb or with hosting? T

I am sorry if thie is republished-My first time doing this and I am not sure what goes where and where to hear feedback.
Have published iweb site for five years with no problems and just opened a new site and get -
404: Page not found
This error is generated when there was no web page with the name you specified at the web site.-
Troubleshooting suggestions:
Ensure the page you are linking to exists in the correct folder.
Check your file name for case sensitivity . Index.htm is not the same as index.htm!
Temporarily disable any rewrite rules by renaming your .htaccess file if it exists
is the problem with
iweb or with hosting?
One Apple tech started to fix Iweb and had to end session and the next said problem with hosting at Network Solutions as it published
to local folder. NWS has checked sttting a few times-
Any help would be extremely appreciated as trying to fix this for about five weeks
Thanks VG
<Email Edited by Host>

It's a really bad idea to post your email address - it's an invitation to spam - and I've asked the Hosts to remove it. (Even though I've now noticed you mis-spelled it! - anyway, never post your address in a forum.)
You have a site here: http://virginiagordon.com/www.virginiagordon.com/WELCOME.html
If that's not the page you are having trouble with, what is that page's URL?

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