Archive for Tutorials

25 Apr 2010

iWeb blog comments and NO MobileMe

31 Comments Tutorials

If there is one question I receive more than any other this has to be it. How do I get comments on an iWeb blog without hosting it on MobileMe? I did publish a few tutorials regarding this very subject way back when All About iWeb was in its infancy and I recommended to you all JS-Kit.

Sadly they have been taken over and the free service is no longer available (as far as I can see) so I set about trying to find an alternative, and here it is. Read more

10 Apr 2010

How to add a fixed floating menu to your iWeb

14 Comments Tutorials

Almost a year ago I wrote a post pointing you all in the direction of an iWeb site explaining how iWeb users with long pages can add Anchors to those long pages so that visitors to the site didn’t have to keep scrolling up and down to get to see the navigation.

Of course another solution would be to get the nav-bar to follow the user down the page as they scrolled, and that’s what this post is all about. There are many ways of getting a floating static nav-bar on your iWeb site, but most involve Javascript, JQuery or something similar, I wanted to find an easy solution. Read more

29 Mar 2010

Detect iPhone (and other mobile) users

9 Comments Tutorials

In February I wrote a post explaining how to insert a piece of code into your iWeb site which would redirect an iPhone user to another sub-site that you had specifically designed for them. Reading through the comments you may have noticed that for a few of you it didn’t work, so I have been looking for a solution.

Well now I have found one that doesn’t just include iPhones, but other phones too; so now you can cover all your bases. Read more

25 Mar 2010

Insert Flash into iWeb

6 Comments Tutorials

This is a question I am often asked and, although I covered it in one of my ‘iWeb Questions of the Week’ posts a while back I still get  e-mails asking me every now and again so I thought it was about time that this subject got a post all to itself.

To get a flash movie into iWeb you will need 2 things; A flash movie clip and a bit of code to stick into a HTML snippet. That’s it really, it’s that easy. If you look around the WWW there are lots of different codes for inserting a flash movie into a web-site (not just iWeb) and I have been testing a few. The one I show below is the one I had most success with. Read more

20 Feb 2010

How to detect an iPhone visitor to your iWeb site

10 Comments Tutorials, Web Design

Last year I wrote a post all about making an iWeb site look good on an iPhone or iPod Touch and a few of you have written to me to ask whether it would be possible to have an iPhone user automatically redirected to a completely different page, one that had been designed specifically for an iPhone’s smaller screen. Well I have been doing a bit of digging and a bit of experimenting and I think I have finally come up with a solution.

There are several ways of achieving the automatic redirection however many involve PHP or HTML and Conditional Comments which change the CSS layout of a page. All well and good if you are an established web-designer not using iWeb so I had to find a different method. Read more