Hi Everyone,
First off, is there a GOOD iWeb help website that anyone can recommend. Mac's site is very vague...I've designed websites for many years and only recently made the switch back from Windows to Mac, so I've got the added frustrations of trying reacquaint myself with the OS. Here's a few questions I have in order of importance.
I really like iWeb and the templates that come with it, so I really want to learn how to use it exclusively without all of the middle steps of saving it to my drive, uploading it, and then working with the html from a different editor. I completely stripped the site off of my server last night and am going to do a fresh upload today, but I'm just thinking I've got to be making it harder on myself than it needs to be. Can anyone help me or point me to a website that could help me learn the program a bit better and/or addresses the issues I have?
Thanks!
Deana
First off, is there a GOOD iWeb help website that anyone can recommend. Mac's site is very vague...I've designed websites for many years and only recently made the switch back from Windows to Mac, so I've got the added frustrations of trying reacquaint myself with the OS. Here's a few questions I have in order of importance.
- How do I make tables?
I tried and tried to get this one page to set up correctly just using click and drag and I had to resort to a table, but the table constantly gives me problems--mainly because what I do is create the basic look in iWeb, save it to my local drive then upload to my server and use my server's code and WYSIWYG tools to adjust the table. There's GOT to be a better way.
- One of my pages won't scroll, so the bottom of my page isn't visible.
It worked at one point but then I added some additional content at the top of the page and it stopped working. This is the same page that has the table issue.
- The Navbar won't update.
I added an additional page to the site, but it won't show up on the Navbar. Also, the Navbar breaks the them image when viewed in IE. I'm using the Elegance theme for her in case that makes any difference.
- Backward Engineering Doesn't Work?
At one point, I had a page the way I wanted it on the server, but wanted to have it on my computer so I could work on it locally, so I saved it with the same file name its always had in my local drive, but it refuses to show up in iWeb. What gives?
- What's the best way to upload to a server when you're running multiple domains other than on MobileMe?
I have my main website, but I also have another one for a friend and when I tried to use the Publish option in iWeb, it was a total disaster! It wiped out my webpage and the files paths were incorrect for my friend's page, so everything loaded wrong. Once I had that under control, I went and redid my personal page and then MY page was showing up on HER URL! The way things are set up, my webpage is in the public_html root and hers is in public_html/lovingtheanimals (she is an animal reiki practitioner).
I really like iWeb and the templates that come with it, so I really want to learn how to use it exclusively without all of the middle steps of saving it to my drive, uploading it, and then working with the html from a different editor. I completely stripped the site off of my server last night and am going to do a fresh upload today, but I'm just thinking I've got to be making it harder on myself than it needs to be. Can anyone help me or point me to a website that could help me learn the program a bit better and/or addresses the issues I have?
Thanks!
Deana