Select and delete the page title and text block. Starting with the White theme, Welcome page, we are going wipe the slate clean. As a matter of workflow, each time you create a new web page, first give it a proper name in the Site Organizer before you start in on the web page. We can not change the font, size, color or position of the buttons that iWeb creates for us. Select the name and change it to 'Home Page'. As shown below in the Site Organizer, the default name for this page is Welcome. As we create more pages, each page will add a button (link) to the top of the web page. For now, we have just the one page and so there is only one button at the top. When we selected the White theme, Welcome page, a web page is create with the name 'Welcome' and places a 'Welcome' page button (link) at the very top of the page above the horizontal line, iWeb always places the navigational buttons at the top of the page above the horizontal line. All of these items are simply place holders into which we can drag our own picture(s), enter our own text or delete entirely.īefore we start work on the web page lets change the name of the button (link), this is done in the Site Organizer. When the iWeb window first opens, as shown above, it contains a 'Welcome" link at the very top, a title, picture, a block of text and even a 'Made on a Mac' logo. The large center area of the iWeb window is where the work is done. Along the bottom of the iWeb window are a row of buttons that offer tools used in constructing of web pages. You can choose which page you want to work on by selecting it in the Site Organizer, which will then open it into the iWeb work space. Changing the name of a page in the Site Organizer will also change the name of the button at the top of the web page. Each page listed in the Site Organizer has a corresponding page button (link) displayed at the top of the web page. It is here that you can change the default page name like 'Welcome' or 'About Me' to a more unique name. Along the left hand side is the 'Site Organizer', this column lists each page that you create for your web site. I am going to choose the White theme and select the 'Welcome' template for the first web page.Īfter choosing a theme and page style, the iWeb window opens, comprised of three sections. iWeb is very accommodating and offers us two themes, White and Black, that we can use as a starting point for creating our web pages. However, it may be that none of the provided themes offers a design scheme that you can use, or it could be that you want to build your web pages from scratch for a totally unique look. Each of these themes has its own background art with additional art to match the design and it is possible to modify any of these prebuilt themes to achieve a more customized look. The 12 different themes in iWeb offer an interesting choice of general purpose motifs: White, Black, Watercolor, Travel, Baby, Kids Blue and Pink, Modern, Night Life, Freestyle, Road Trip and Formal. In addition there are pages for displaying movies, blogs and podcasts. Two general layouts in 'Welcome' and 'About Me' and a photo page for creating slideshows. Each theme contains six different coordinated web page options. Launching iWeb for the first time, we are presented with the option to select from amongst 12 different iWeb themes, each with its own background art, layout, font styles and colors to complement the theme. Don't let the simplicity of the iWeb workflow fool you, you can build a very customized and original web site. iWeb also offers up to 99 undoes (command z ). iWeb uses just one tabbed 'Inspector' window, which contains all the settings necessary to build and customize our web pages. While we are occupied dragging and dropping elements to build our web pages, iWeb is busily working behind the scene (read out of sight) creating the buttons, hyperlinks and all other necessary. It is truly drag and drop and is fully integrated with the other iLife apps, iPhoto, iTunes, Garageband and Movies. In my 14 years on the Mac I have never been so impressed with an app as I was with iWeb and considering that this is a 1.0 release, the word 'amazing' comes to mind. Recently Apple released iLife 6, which introduces a new application called "iWeb", so I decided to take a look. When web site applications did arrive, I was so comfortable with hand coding, that I did not see any need, pretty arcane of me (grin). I started building web sites well before there were any applications to assist with the process.
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