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.
Most of the time you will not need any help creating a website with iWeb. But when it happens don’t panic. As for any Apple product there is a support forum where you can ask questions and other users of the product will try to help you.
Here is the link to the Discussion Forums (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 reply you)
Often the questions asked in the Discussion Forums are always the same. That’s why I decided to make a FAQ with tutorials tips and tricks.
Most of the answers on this website refer to 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 this page to add HTML code to your pages.
Here they are...
iWeb FAQ: Tutorials, Tips and Tricks
General Tips (read them! especially if you’re new to building websites)
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. Also see the special page about iTweak)
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?
Feedback comments and forms
How can I have users leaving me comments on my website? 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?
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 & PopUp windows
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?
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?
Scrolling TextBox or iFrames and Frames
(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.
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?
Business solutions
Selling stuff using iWeb. Is that possible? Any suggestions of how to do that?
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?
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)?
Blogging
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
Can I add Google search to my website? Can I have it searching within my 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
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?
Faster loading websites
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?
From other websites:
Time by “Artotems Co. - C. Tucker". When on the net people often forget about time. Tell them...
Scrolling Text by “Artotems Co. - C. Tucker". About automatically scrolling text.
Javascript by “Artotems Co. - C. Tucker". Javascript troubleshoot.
Also visit:
- Guimkie
- 11 Mystics
- W3schools.com (which is really great!)
- W3C WWW Consortium
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