If you run a business and have your web presence thanks to an iWeb site choosing the correct iWeb theme can make all the difference. Seriously, if a user doesn’t like the look of your site they will hit the back button faster than a fast thing on ‘International Let’s See How Fast We Can Hit The Back Button’ day. Despite the fact that you may always be reading ‘content is king’ I’m afraid that ‘design is its queen’.

I touched on this subject a little at the beginning of the year in my 10 iWeb New Year’s Resolutions but felt that it was a subject worth expanding on. Read more

As I have said many times before I look at loads of iWeb sites everyday. I also look at a lot of non-iWeb sites too and, in particular I like to read the blogs of graphic and web designers. As you can imagine there is a huge difference in the standard of sites being produced between the two different user groups, but there are things you can do to your iWeb site to give it a more modern and crisp feel. Subtle changes and little tweaks here and there are all that is required, so here are a few ideas. Read more

Over the last few weeks I have received quite a few e-mails asking the same question; ‘when I publish my iWeb site to the Internet, why does the URL (or web address) appear so long in the browser’s address bar?’ Rather than keep typing the same answer I thought I would write a post explaining how and why this happens with your iWeb site and what, if anything you can do to avoid it. Read more

Having a large image or photograph as background is very ‘in’ at the moment when it comes to modern web design. A problem arises however, when you try to achieve this style in iWeb. Inspector only allows you to set a tile or centered image that will move when a user scrolls the page. This obviously isn’t what you want when you have your most beautiful image as a backdrop for your home page.

To get round the problem all you have to do is a tiny little bit of code editing (and I do mean tiny) before you publish your site and you will be able to keep the background of your iWeb page static whilst scrolling the content. Read more

There cannot be many Mac users who have not seen or do not know the ‘Coverflow’ effect that Apple created as a means of displaying (initially) album covers in iTunes, on iPhones or the iPod touch and which has now been brought into Finder and some of the more recent iPods. It’s a pretty cool gallery effect and method of diplaying images and recently I received an e-mail from Henrik (he also left a comment too) asking about how to achieve this effect in iWeb.

I was intregued. It must be possible, however I had only ever seen it recreated in Flash. I wanted an easy way to do it, and one that would fit in with iWeb. Read more