My HTML not working in iWeb '09

Question

I designed and published a site in iWeb but want to add a small text box that scrolls similar to the one found on AVClub.com (the newswire box except without the content comprised of links).  I sent a copy of my homepage to a friend of mine and he was able to insert the HTML necessary to make this box appear.  I sent him the index.html file and he emailed me back a copy just renamed as homepage.html.  When I try to open homepage.html in iWeb, it is not recognizing the text box.  I have usually just added the file to the local folder where index is.  I tried to also rename homepage.html to index.html, therefore rewriting it and then publishing my site, thinking that the site would now how the text box in it.  To clarify, I know that the HTML he embedded works properly, because when I open homepage.html in a browser on my computer, it displays properly with the text box. 
Therefore, I was wondering if there is a way to directly edit the HTML through iWeb (is there a simple way through Widgets?), or can someone recommend the best approach to adding this style text box to my homepage.  Pretty much all I need is a scrolling text box I can edit easily.  Also once that is edited, do I just go about publishing it normally through iWeb?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

Answer 1

This is exactly why iWeb itself contains html snippets or widgets under the media section.
If you want scrolling text boxes, then you insert your html code into an html snippet placed on the page wherever you want it and with the correct code entered it will become a scrolling text box directly in iWeb.
The only thing that you can do now is to open the index.html page that your friend added the html code to with a text editor such as Text Wrangler that can be downloaded for free.  Open the page using this and find the appropriate code that was inserted and then copy this code.  When you have copied the code open your original site in iWeb - so you need to go to your domain.sites file and open this directly or simply open iWeb and find your site. 
When you have done this, go to the page of your site that you want the scrolling text inserted on and drag and drop an html snippet onto this page from media and then copy and paste the html code into the snippet and click apply and you should get the same scrolling text box directly in iWeb that you had before.
As others have already said, iWeb is not an html editor and is unable to open already published pages.
Use the html snippet in iWeb to insert any code that you need to.