Sharing with iWeb from iMovie- 2 questions

Question

I asked this question in iMovie forum and was told to repost here:
I was wondering where the quick time file goes when you choose "share with iWeb" locally. I have been able to find it on the iDisk, but thought it possibly was saved locally too.
Also - I'm extremely confused with iWeb when viewing the pages it creates through Internet Explorer on Windows based PC's. I am able to see it on 25% of PC's, hear it on another 25% of PC's, and on 50% can't see or hear it. I have done searching and found no concrete reason why this is. I have updated the QT player, updated IE, and also gone into settings and allowed QT to be the default for all file types it wants. Any ideas?

Answer 1

ezweeb:
The movie files is copied into the Domain.sites file that's located in your User/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder. That is the most important file of your site. It contains all of the building blocks of your site and if it gets damaged or deleted you'll have to start from scratch to recreate your site.
I strongly suggest you download and use varkgirl's Automator application to backup the Domain.sites file every time you make any changes to the site. You can get it here.
Many of the PC browsers do not handle the png files that iWeb uses frequently. The following are a number of tips I've gathered from this forum on how to help avoid creating png files and making the sites more compatible with the darkside.
1 - do not use and frames or borders, etc. around photos.
2 - don't use any reflections.
3 - create your own navigation bar with linked text* and turn of the iWeb Navigation bar. That's because the nav bar is all png based.
*Put your linked text directly under the Navigation bar. Then turn off the nav bar in the Inspector window. The nav bar will disappear and the linked text will move up to the top of the page.
4 - use only the web safe fonts from the Font pane.
5 - do not use drop shadow on fonts.
6 - turn off smart quotes
7 - if you add a jpg to a page don't resize it in iWeb as that will cause it to be converted to png. Resize it to what you need before adding to the page..
The above will reduce the number and size of files associated with a web page quite a bit. Photos with fancy frames and reflections can generate a thumbnail png of around 110KB whereas the plain version will be a jpg of only 28KB. Although it doesn't sound like a lot, it will speed up loading of the page and be more darkside (i.e. PC) friendly.
Run a test with a test site and publish to a folder. Then follow the hints above and publish to another folder and compare folders.
This site will show you how IE 7, 6 and 5.5 will display your site. I don't have access to a PC to determine how accurately it renders a site as Internet Explorer would. But you can try it out.