Great Tutorial Cedric, Thanks!
However, is there an option to change the color or size of the generic iweb blue cursor of the scroll bar when making iframes for text? I think that the blue color is very annoying when mixed with certain web designs...
Also, the cursor gets too big sometimes breaking the whole aesthetic of the site..

Thanks!
Eli

Hi Eliseo,

thanks for the compliments on the tutorial.

The answer to your question is that I don't think there is a way to change that (unless you build everything in Flash or similar but I have no idea on how to do that). At least there isn't for Mac computers. If you notice the blue cursor is not iWeb specific but it's simply for everything on OSX. Whether you're in Finder, Word, Safari, ...

If you Google
html+code+scroll+bar+color
you will find some codes to change the color of scrollbars. However they don't work to change Apple's scrollbar colors. They only work for Windows and I even doubt they still work for Windows XP, Vista and newer (I don't think those codes still work).

Note that Windows using people don't see a blue curser. I don't know what they see it like. I didn't use a PC for a few years now...

If you want to change the color of the scrollbar in OS X you need to go to System Preferences=>Appearance. However that change applies only to your computer, not to others.

Regards,
Cédric

hello

i´m new here - and german so sorry for any mistakes i will make ;D feel free to teach me, when i do ;D

i just googled "change cursor in iWeb" and found your site and forum. it´s great, it already helped me out a lot!
but i wasn´t able to change the cursor yet - is it possible...?
or only on my own mac, is that, what you said in this thread?

i would love to have the metal hand... and i got this code, which i tried to add to the index.html
but i couldn´t even open the file wit text edit!
or should i try to upload this with filezilla? i have two other pages and i´m scared to f*** them up
if i try that ;D

<style type="text/css">
a {
text-decoration:underline;
cursor:url('metalhand.cur'), url(' metalhand.png'), url(' metalhand.gif'), auto;
}
</style>

i also tried to add a html box to my .home site - that didn´t work, too!

thank you!
greetz, b*

i use iWeb 3.0.4 - i couldn´t type that in when i registered...
and this is my site http://www.bad-taste-california.com

Upload metalhand.png to the root of your website. Should display entering http://www.bad-taste-california.com/metalhand.png

Then open the published HTML files and paste



right before </head>

This will change the cursor for links on the page. Not for links in iFrames (HTML Snippets) unless you add the code to them too.

Regards,
Cédric