New entry Blog page help

I use the "travel" blog template ( because i like the page arrangement), have changed the background & browser background to my own image and color, but cannot for the life of me figure out how to make it my template for future entries. I'm so tired of having to start from scratch with "the world of Kevin" style for each new entry. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Kat

Try asking this question in the iWeb forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=188

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My blog page has gone blank - on iWeb and when opened in Firefox. I don't know when this happened as the entry pages are still ok. I added another blog and wondered if this had an impact? How can I get it back or recreate a new opening blog page without messing up all the entries? Any help would be appreciated
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Your Public Profile indicates you're running Mac OS X (10.4.10) — if that's true, you should upgrade to 10.4.11 via  menu > Software Update... and then update your Public Profile.
And if you prefer not to wait for a possible specific suggestion regarding your blog, and you're publishing to MobileMe, their live chat support is now 24/7 — see this announcement.

My iWeb's main blog page has photos of entries all mixed up

My site is egsilberman.com and all but the main blog page is functioning. The index.html looks perfect, the page listing all the blog pages using the index.html in the browser looks as it should.
But after uploading the site to my FTP - using iWeb SEO Tool - the main landing page of the blog has all the photos, except the most recent entry, mixed up. The blog entries are in order, listed according to date, but the photos associated with the entries - the key photos shown on the main blog page - are all goofed up: randomly placed throughout the entries.
Oddly, all the blog pages are functioning fine. It's just the main blog landing photos that're off.
On the iWeb side I've reloaded everything from scratch...trashed caches, plists, etc, but it doesn't seem to be the problem. Again, the index.html site and blog (main page) are all in order. I'm not an expert by any means, so the change in the blog is confounding me. It was working fine until earlier this week.
Is it the SEO uploader? My FTP/host? Something I could do to help? I do not know what to do. Any advice or direction would be appreciated.
Thanks for considering this question.
Evan

Roddy, thank you for many things.
Firstly, for your clear direction in encouraging me to upload my site AFTER SEO'ing it using a dedicated FTP. I used Cyberduck. Then, following the line of thinking that the index.html needed to be uploaded as well, I did that. Simple as it sounds it took a bit of courage on my part.
This got my blog summary page photos back in line with their individual entries.
Bigger still was seeing that the index.html file I uploaded made a /Site/ reference to the "Site" folder that's local on my desktop but not present in my server's folder. And seeing this in the browser address bar, I altered the text of the index.html by eliminating the /Site. Cyberduck offered ways to do this. I pushed save.
Cedric at http://iwebfaq.org/site/iWeb_Folder_FTP.html has a helpful step by step on using FTP and Cyberduck. I followed his instruction as I went.
As tiny as this is to those of you who know the workings of your sites, it, for me, is like looking under the hood of a car and being ABLE to fix it. Not something I normally do. Maybe it'll break down in a mile. But for now it's fixed, and humming along.
I'm looking now toward getting an optimization app. If I'm correct, and I follow your publishing workflow path, Roddy, http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Search-Engine-Optimization/Website-Publishing-Wo rkflow.html, I will, after optimizing, then upload again to my server - using the post-optimized folder as the final source of feeding the server. Then you list other steps - uploading new sitemaps to all the major search engines - I purchase Rage's Sitemap Automater - will use that for that.
There is a methodical flow to all this, and I will learn it and implement it. Leaving MobileMe and moving to FTP and FTP practices was a leap.
Thanks again for your help.
Evan
http://egsilberman.com

My main blog page can't find its entry pages

When I make iWeb blog entry pages, the main blog page can't find them. It says "Error. The file cannot be found." (even if I just use the placeholder "Blue bird day" page without changing it!) I'm dragging my image onto the placeholder image on the (Modern) Blog entry page but the main Blog pag can't find it or even the placeholder image on an unmodified new blog entry page. I am publishing to a file and ftp-ing it up to my ISP but I get the "file cannot be found" message even on my own hard drive before uploading. What's wrong?
The blog page of my site is:
http://www.christopherrauschenberg.com/Site/Blog/Blog.html
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Well, not sure of a complete solution for you, but I have found a specific problem.
From the main blog page. . . the link it gives for New York is
http://www.christopherrauschenberg.com/Site/Blog/429B84A8-BD4B-4B30-8A66-017811D F742E.html
However, in checking the directory, looks like that is labeled instead as
http://www.christopherrauschenberg.com/Site/Blog/429B84A8-BD4B-4B30-_124C76.html
That would explain why it couldn't be found.
A little further checking or your root directory shows similar mismatches between various page index files and the folders containing data.
Have you published and uploaded portions at a time? Is ossible after changes we made that all changes were not published.
It might be best to clean out the FTP folder, republish your whole site from iWeb to a folder on your computer and re-FTP it to your site (making sure to enter correct url of your site on the publish screen as well).
(if you think I helped in any way, I'd appreciate it if you could mark my reply as either "solved" or "helpful" using the little buttons in the title bar of the reply. Manythanx! )
Good luck!

Recreate a blog page to link with existing entries

My hard disk crashed a while ago, and although it was replaced under Applecare, some of my data was either corrupted at the time or subsequently and hasn’t copied back successfully. The problem I’m stuck with now is that I can’t get iWeb working again properly, and I need to find out if there’s a way to recreate a blog page that will link to the existing series of entries which show up ok in the edit entries area, just not on the lead blog page itself.
Here’s more detailed info:
I've copied the whole Site folder from my iDisk, but can't seem to force iWeb to read from it. I can find the Domain file in my user library, and tried removing it to make iWeb create a new one, which I hoped it would rebuild from the downloaded Site folder which I swapped in for the old one that appears to be corrupt.
However, iWeb is a stubborn little so-and-so, and I just can't get two key parts of the site I've built within it to now see their links. The main opening page of the website is a blog, and that is completely blank, even though the series of entries are present. The archive for this section is also blank. This is my biggest worry, as if I try to publish and the index page is blank then there's no way to navigate to the rest of the site.
The second part that's playing up is also a blog, called Soul Blog, and for this one the blog page is partially there, but missing the list of entries (you can see the header section and a few Google ads down the right hand side). Again the entries are present, although several are missing their media (I think that may be a few files that were lost in trying to reinstall my data onto the replacement hard drive when mine crashed). On this one the archive seems fine.
I've added here a series of screenshots to illustrate what I mean, and whereas with a normal page I could just rebuild it, I can't figure out how to make a blog page and tell it to access all of the existing entries the old one linked to. So if any of you have any idea on how to go about this I'd be eternally grateful! Here are the screenshots, and many thanks for any help.
Sean

iWeb doesn't have an integrated way of doing this (perhaps in iWeb 2.0?), so you'll have to do post-publishing editing. One approach is to use a Flash-based viewer...
SimpleViewer is a free, customizable Flash image viewing application:
http://www.airtightinteractive.com/simpleviewer/
Here's an example integrated into an iWeb site:
http://www.rowan-cottage.co.uk/Site/Events_Photos.html
And here's a tutorial on how to do it:
http://www.rowan-cottage.co.uk/Site/SimpleViewer.html
An alternative viewer is:
http://www.bananalbum.com/
Here's a thread discussing various alternatives:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=4403028#4403028
Bear in mind that with such "viewers" you're not going to have complete flexibility on the placement of your thumbnails. For absolute control of thumbnail positioning and behaviour you would need, for example, a JavaScript script. Softpress' "Freeway Pro" web-design software incorporates a "Slave Show/Hide Image" JavaScript "Action":
http://www.softpress.com/actionfiles/Slave_Show_HideImage/
...but then you would be moving away from being a pure iWeb site.

Blog page shows blank in iweb, but can see entries

blog page shows blank in iweb, but can see entries. I have search fro many help hints and currently I have deleted the Home Folder/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iWeb.plist and restarted (done this a few times) and fixed permissions.
If there is no fix for this, then can someone tell me if I can create a new blog then add the old entries to a new blog ??

Alrighty... i might have found a way to make your blog page shown again.. it's a lot of work tho! Especially if u have had a lot in your entries...
I only have 20 or so entries... What i did was, changing the blog page theme to another theme that has similarities in the blog layout page.. and then switching it back to the theme that you have...
ex. My original theme is the Modern Frame.. I switch it to Water Color theme (check if your blog page is there..) then switch it back to your original theme.
It's not done yet! You have to edit your entries again, in order to get your web original look! i edited it per post! make sure you keep saving it after you edited a little bit of stuff, just to make sure you won't lose it AGAIN...
Once I'm done, i even save another copy of a domain file on my desktop.. you know, just in case..
Mac should fix this iweb problems.. Thank god i only have a few posts by now.. What about people who has hundreds of post...
iWeb should come in handy.. Not giving us more problems..

Photos in text of blog entry do not port to main blog page

I have posted before about the photos from my entry page disappearing when ported to my main blog page. I have yet to find a solution so I'm asking for help again.
I'm am trapped using iWeb 1.1 until I find a solution. I use the Modern Template with modifications. Usually I delete the snowboarding surfer placeholder. Please note I'm not concerned that this photo doesn't port. I don't want it to. I do however need the photos that I have embedded via text wrap within my blog entry to port to the main blog page. They do not.
I have tried keeping the snowboarder place holder and redoing entries with wrapped text, but my additional photos are still missing. I have checked the box in iWeb 2 that says show photos. My layouts conveted to iWeb 2 look perfect on the entry's page, and horrible with missing photos on the summary page.
This problem is beyond frustrating. My blog can be seen here, however it is still the iWeb 1.1 format.
http://web.mac.com/knittsings/iWeb/knittsings/knittsings/knittsings.html
As you can see, almost all my entries have numerous photos. I want them to display on the main blog page.
Am I missing something very basic? I have seen others with this same question but no one seems to have had any luck resolving this problem.
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And that's the way it should be.
If you look at this page about navigation you'll see that the main navigation uses eternal links and the sub navigation internal ones....
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/WebMusic/Navigation.html
Try the troubleshooting steps under "Fix iWeb" here.....
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/WebMusic/iWebTips.html

Changed theme on main blog page, lost all entries

I am updating the site visually and was attempting to change the theme as I had done with other pages, but nothing was happening. Fortunately, I had done a save before going starting on this page. So, I noted that I had NO entries on my blog, so I reverted to saved version. My problem remains, I have a blank entry page. The main blog page is ok and shows my entries and the archive option, but when I try to actually go to an entry or make a new entry, nothing happens or IWeb will crash. Any suggestions appreciated. I can go back to last night's backup, but I will lose all my other page changes I worked on this morning which would be a bummer!

llhjunk1 wrote:
Any suggestions appreciated.
If you're publishing to MobileMe, live chat support is now 24/7 — see this announcement.
Problems with iWeb's blog are a recurring theme on these forums. An alternative to iWeb's blog is to hyperlink from your iWeb site to a free Posterous blog, perhaps via their Posterous Blog Widget — see here.
Or there's WordPress:
http://support.wordpress.com/getting-started/
...which has many design themes to choose from — this one has tabs:
http://mistylook.org

Add New Entry to a blog

If I start a blog and "fix" the blog entry layout. Is there some way to save that so I dont have to re-design it every time i wanna make a new entry?

Perhaps I'm not using the right terms. Let me try and restate my problem.
I am now using the "Notebook" theme. I have already created some entries where I've changed the default "My Blog" and associated Latin on the yellow header on top of the page to what I want them to say (i.e., "Bill's Blog" and associated text). You can see an example of such an entry here:
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When I click on the "Add Entry" button, I get a page with a yellow border on top with the words "My Blog" instead of what I'd like, which is "Bill's Blog". The Title field and its associated blog entry text (again, Latin) is lower on the page, and I understand that this is necessarily pulled from the standard template because that is the main body of the entry, which one would need to edit to make a relevant entry. But I'd like to at least automate the header material on the yellow strip at top to say "Bill's Blog" instead of "My Blog", and have standard text up there that I create, not Apple.
I guess what I'm asking is if there is a way to edit the template itself so that hitting the "Add Entry" button creates a templated entry of my design. Or at least a templated entry containing my text vs. Apple's.

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Try creating a new blog page that looks identical to the current blog you have. Then once you start a new blog on the new blog template you just created, simply make a button or text link to your other blog. If I'm not mistaken you can create as many blog templates as you wish.
Please let me know if I'm wrong.

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Rebecca ~ Welcome to the discussions. +"A lot of problems can be solved simply by..."+
Read more in the "Fix iWeb" section here:
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/WebMusic/iWebTips.html

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I've been using iWeb for about 18 months to publish (privately to my MobileMe account) a daily "diary" entry in blog style and would now like to change them default theme but WITHOUT changing it for the past 18 months published since the formatting of the content of the old theme doesn't FIT into the format of the new theme.
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No. just tried adding a new entry page with a different theme and it changed the theme for all pages.
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I have built a site using Modern Frame template. I am using the Blog page to display member profiles. It appears the front blog page has reached it's page length limit. The oldest displayed post is not the oldest if you see what I mean. Please see http://www.dfgs.co.uk and click on the members page.
If you go to the oldest entry (member), open their profile and click next, you will note there are further entries not displayed on the blog page. Most frustrating. Anyone any suggestions? or have I exceeded the blog page length.
Thanks in advance for amy support.

What I really meant to say is, in the Inspector, how do you extend the blog page to accept more than 50 entries? Help please......

Blog page 50 entry limit!

How do you extend the blog page to accept more than 50 entries? Help please......

Mr Peebly wrote:
Any suggestions anyone?
Mr Peebly ~ Yes, you could create a free "Social Networking" site at Ning. It's web-based, so there's nothing to download. You could set up a "Members" page there and hyperlink to it from your iWeb site. Each member of your network would have a fully customizable profile with their photo, basic information and everything they’ve contributed to the network. Here's an example of such a page:
http://golfbuddiesnation.ning.com/profiles/members/
...click on each of the three +Featured Members+ there to see all that can be put into a member's profile. And there are more golf networks on Ning here:
http://www.ning.com/?view=search&term=golf
Ning says each Network's "look" is fully customizable — click on the thumbnail for their product overview:
If you really like Ning, you may even want to consider replacing your entire iWeb site with it! ...But begin with just a Members page and see how it goes.

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