iWeb FAQ - Tutorials, Tips & Tricks

iWebFAQ.org

About iWeb: What is iWeb?

iWeb first appeared in iLife ’06 with version 1, v.2 came with iLife ’08, iWeb 3 with iLife ’09.

It is a wonderful Apple application I used to create the website you are looking at right now and my other websites as well.

Here you can find a few Getting started video-tutorials made by Apple.

Here is the link to the Apple Discussion Forums (Apple Support Forums)

Here is the link to the iWeb Discussion Forum (iWeb Support Forum)

Here is the link if you want to give Apple a Feedback of iWeb to tell them to include a new feature or something not working properly and so on... (Note: Apple will NOT answer you)

About the iwebfaq.org website

I started to build this website at the end of 2006 while answering questions on the Apple Discussion Forums and seeing that questions I answered to were always the same. Since then the number of discussed topics and the number of visitors keep increasing.

On November 13th 2009 I published an E-Book (.pdf) in which I re-wrote most of the FAQs making them more detailed, cleaner, easier to read and to understand. It’s a desktop reference guide which in addition to what is on the website also includes some tutorials which are not on the website:

- Anchors (links to specific spots on a page)
- Accordion menu

- Auto-Scrolling text and images
- Auto fading text

- Auto fading photos slideshow

- Floating menu (or float anything else)

- Change photo on pageload

- Disable right-click

- Sliding image menu

- Tooltips (yellow text boxes which appear when you put the mouse pointer over a link)

- How to build a store like http://ebookstoretoday.com (WordPress)

- The best way to integrate iWeb and WordPress

- Google search box for your website (Search within your own site)

- How to protect your website from being hacked

and more...

You can buy my iWebFAQ.org E-Book here for 15$.

Enjoy,

- Cédric -

iWeb FAQ: Tutorials, Tips and Tricks

Most of the content on this website was written for iWeb 2.0 (’08) and iWeb 3.0 (’09) but they will work for iWeb 1.0 (‘06) as well. If you use iWeb 1.0 have a look at the Alternative HTML FAQ to add HTML code to your pages.

General Tips (Read them especially if you’re new to building websites)

Basic web knowledge base (Here you will find all the basic informations you MUST (!) know if you want to start building a website or are already building one...)

Known issues and general troubleshoot (Find a solution for almost any problem you may have with iWeb)

Useful Applications (I think you should have a look at it)

Backup and retrieve a website

How can I make a backup of my iWeb website? How can I retrieve my website?

Two computers

How can I edit one website from two computers?

Comments

How can I have users leaving me comments on my website?

Forms

How can I provide a form in iWeb that visitors can complete and return via e-mail?

Statcounter

I’d like to be able to see which pages my visitors are looking at and how many visitors I have, how can I do that? (Statcounter)

Transfer website

How can I transfer my website from one computer to another? Or from an older version of iWeb to a newer version?

YouTube videos

How can I add a YouTube video?

Publishing and Hosting

How can I publish my site to MobileMe? How can I publish my site to a server other than MobileMe? How do I publish to a folder? What is an FTP client? Why do I need it? And how does it work? Which hosting is the best?

Using HostExcellence

Google

How can I get my iWeb created (and not iWeb created) website to show up on google? And what about Meta-Tags?

Photos FAQ

Here you can find almost all you would ever like to know about iWeb and photos. Especially how to protect your photos

Content for a friend

I’d like to make a website for a friend then and have her finishing the website and publishing it on her own computer or get it back on mine and then publish it. How can I do that?

Two out of one & One out of two

I created two websites: mine and my son’s. They are both in the same Domain file. I made a new user account for him and now want to have his website on his account and mine on mine. How can I do that? Does the reverse work as well?

Multiple websites

How can I have multiple websites? And how can I publish just one of them instead of all of them or none of them?

Favicons

Favicons: Many websites have little icons before the http, like apple has the apple logo. How do you put one of these icons into your own website so you don't only have to blue dot?

Files and Downloads

I would like to add a .pdf (or any other file or folder) for visitors to download if they would like. How can I do this?

Newsletters

Does anyone know of an easy way to integrate an e-mail newsletter manager into iWeb? I’d like one that is free, if possible.

Music and audio

How can I embed music to my iWeb created site? How can I have people listening to it not only on one page but have the music to continue no matter which page they are looking at? What about popup windows?

The best music player

Pop-up windows

How can I create and add Popup windows in iWeb?

Forum

How can I add a Forum, Discussion board, Messageboard to my site I created with iWeb? Something like vBulletin...

HTML Snippets and Widgets

What’s an HTML Snippet? How does it work? What’s a Widget? How do they work? Where do I find Widgets?

Calendar

I’m creating a website in iWeb and I need to add a calendar to it. How can I do that?

Wrap text around an object

How can I make text wrapping around an object?

Personal domains

How do personal domains work? How do I register them? Do I get personal e-mails too?

Footer

When I try to put something in the footer by dragging, it only makes the page longer. Where do I go wrong? How can I put stuff into the footer?

iFrames, TextBoxes with scrollbars

(iFrames) How can I add a scroll bar in a textbox? Or how  can I embed a page in another page, thus how do iFrames work? How can I embed a particular part of a page in an iFrame? (Frames) Can we have one iFrame on a page but a different page loads in depending on the link that was clicked by the visitor. What I am trying to do is have a list of newspapers and upon clicking on a name that paper's page would load in the frame then another and so on.

Auto-Scrolling text and images

How can I have text or images which scroll automatically in iWeb?

Auto-Fading text

How can I have text changing automatically with fade-in and out effect?

Navigation menu FAQ

Everything about the navigation menu: How to organize the navigation of your website, duplicate the menu bar, create your own menu, drop down / tear down menus, how to have pages that do not display in the navigation, pages without navigation menu and so on

Special characters

I’ve used punctuation in the titles of some of my blog entries (such as Bob’s Birthday) or special characters like è ä ü and so on. When I upload them to the web I get an error and links aren’t working anymore... Any ideas on how to solve this problem?

Multilingual sites

I would like to have a website in multiple languages. How can I do that? And how can I have the buttons displaying in the right language?

E-Commerce and business solutions

Selling stuff using iWeb. Is that possible? Any suggestions on how to do that? What about a booking system? How do I get my real-life business to show up on Google Maps and what is it good for?

Themes and Templates

How can I create my own templates or themes? Where can I find more templates for iWeb? Every time I want to add an entry to my blog I have to edit “Evan’s blog” to the name of my blog, change the images and so on. How can I change this?

Disable right-click

How can I disable the right-click on my website? I want to avoid people getting text or photos out of my website.

Movies and flash content

Adding QuickTime movies to iWeb is really easy. I just drag&drop them and they show up. But what about flash content? flash movies? And what about integrating into iWeb movies I store on an external server (external reference)?

How can I add videos with HTML5 in iWeb so they can be played on the iPad, the iPhone and the iPod Touch too?

Blogging and WordPress

What about blogging on the road? I really like iWeb blogs but the problem is that I’m planning to go on a trip through Europe and want to keep my friends and my family updated. I don’t want to take my computer with me. Can I update a blog from an internet café? Form the office?

Alternative HTML

HTML Snippets are great but they don’t add the code where it’s supposed to be. Is there any alternative to add HTML code without having to do it manually? (Also works to add HTML to iWeb ’06)

MassReplaceIt & HTML troubleshoot page

Google Docs

I would like to embed something like an excel document to my website which I could edit when I get new data. And be able do share a Word document with a friend of mine to be able to edit it both.

iWeb and iWork

How can I use iWeb with Keynote or Pages? What can I do using them together?

Tables

How can I add Tables to iWeb?

Anchors

What is an Anchor? How can I add Anchors to iWeb?

Guestbook

How can I add a Guestbook to my iWeb created site?

Two iWebs

Can I have two iWeb? Can I have two sites in two different Domain files open at the same time? If so, can I copy & paste stuff from one to the other?

Google Search Box

Can I add a Google Search Box to my website? Can I have it searching within my own website?

Website for a group

I’m in a work-team and we are about ten people. It would be nice to have a platform/website that we all can update to share stuff and communicate with each other. Can I do this with iWeb?

Visually impaired friendly sites

I am making a website in iweb and I want it to be friendly to the sight impaired. What I am wondering is, if I hide text underneath images, will a computer that is reading aloud see the text and read it? For instance, if I use images for menu buttons, a blind person would not be able to see the options. But if I could put text underneath the image... do you know if this would work?

Highslide JS FAQ

How to use Highslide JS with iWeb. Highslide JS is a better LightBox. Which can be used for example to achieve the well known image-zoom effect and a lot of other things.

Tooltips

How do I change iWeb tooltips? (the text appearing when pointing the mouse over a link on iWeb websites)

Rollover buttons (or images)

How can I add a Rollover images or Rollover buttons to my iWeb created site?

Tell a friend widget and StumbleUpon

How can I add a Tell a friend widget to my iWeb created site so that people can easily send the link to one of my pages to their friends and bookmark it? How can I add a StumbleUpon button to my website?

Optimizing for a faster loading website

My website is really slow. Why? What can I do to have it loading faster? Why should I optimize my website and what changes will I notice if I do so?

Animations

How did you make the animation on your first page? How can I publish a Keynote presentation to my website?

Redirect

How can I redirect people from one of my pages to another page maybe even to a page of an external website? How can I make a redirect in iWeb?

Facebook and Twitter

I’m a Facebook user. How can I get my visitors to add me as a friend? How can I create a fan page for my website to start a community? How can I have people sharing the URL of my website with their friends on FB? And much more...

Tear and drop down menus

How can I add a tear down or drop down menu in iWeb?

Cover flow

How can I add the cover flow effect to my website?

Polls

How can I add a poll to my website? I would like to ask questions to my visitors and have their answers in a simple and easy way.

Podcasting

What is a Podcast? How can I make one? How does it work with iWeb?

Browser compatibility issues

In some browsers my iWeb website looks awful and some things are not displayed properly or they’re not displayed at all. Why?

Auto fading photos slideshow

How can I have a slideshow with photos changing automatically with a fade-in and out effect? How can I have people changing the photos manually?

Accordion menu

How can I add an Accordion menu in iWeb?

Add snow to your website

How can I add falling snow to my website? What is a Snow Leopard without snow?

Login form

How can I add a login to my website and redirect people to a specific page? I want to add a login form to my website so that each user logging in is redirected to a specific page or all to the same page. Can I do this in iWeb?

Sliding image menu

How can I add an imageMenu to my website?

Floating menu (or float anything else)

How can I add a floating menu in iWeb? What is that good for? How can I have some text floating? Links? An image?

Change photo on pageload

How can I have a photo randomly changing on page-load? How can I have another photo displaying each time the page is loaded?

Google search box

Can I add a Google search box to my iWeb created website? Can I have it searching within my own website?

Also visit:

- Guimkie

- 11 Mystics

- W3schools.com (which is really great!)

- W3C WWW Consortium

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HostExcellence currently mainly offers two hosting packages:

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Here you will find some basic instructions and FAQs I wrote on using HostExcellence...

iWebFAQ.org - Tutorials, Tips & Tricks is made with iWeb and for iWeb.

It’s presented by Cédric and hosted by HostExcellence.com

I would like you to give me feedback on this page by commenting in the appropriate section of the Forum. Tell me if it's been helpful. If it wasn’t please tell me why. If you think something is missing please tell me what. If you have questions about it post them there and I will probably try to give you an answer.

Thank you for visiting and supporting my website.

- Cédric -

My other websites:

www.wordpressfaq.org
www.phpbbfaq.net
www.ebookstoretoday.com
www.canzoniere.org
www.musicwiki.info

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