During my review of the Rage iWeb SEO Tool  I touched on the subject of alt-tags for images within iWeb and how they can not only improve your SEO rankings but improve the accessiblity of your iWeb site. The purpose of this post is taking it all a little bit further and going into a little more depth to help you understand the whys and wherefores of alt-tags and how to add them to your iWeb site. Read more

Adding a form to your iWeb site does several things all at the same time. To begin with it adds interactivity for your users; a vital element for any site. It can offer site visitors a means of contacting the site owner, purchasing products, signing up to newsletters, answering surveys or providing feedback. Apple haven’t made adding forms to iWeb particularly easy but there are several sites available to us iWeb users that do the job equally well. In this tutorial I hope to explain how to add a simple contact form to your site which, when completed, will be e-mailed back to your inbox. Read more

Imagine the scene.  You have found a gap in the internet that you feel you could exploit with a web-site. You book some holidays from work and take three weeks to design your perfect web-site. All the images are there, you have customised the theme just the way you like it and everything looks great. You get yourself a domain name and some webspace, but before you go ‘live’ with the site you ask your PC using friend to take a look and let you know what he thinks (feedback is always good). ‘It looks great’ says your PC using friend ‘except the font looks really crappy!’ Aaaaagggghhhh!! Read more

If you are anything like me, you wish that the iWeb sites navigation bars were more user friendly.  By that I mean you can move them or change the links within them to name but a few.  So after a bit of a play about with my tester site I came up with the following solution.  Not only do I think the results look better, but they are far more customisable.

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Take a look around the internet at any site that allows you to subscribe to an RSS feed and you will no doubt notice a little orange icon decorated with a few curved white lines.  Obviously this has become the ‘icon of choice’ for web designers the world-over when it comes to adding RSS functionality to their sites.  Apple on the other hand seem to want to go against the grain when it comes to iWeb and has stuck to their guns with the little blue icon. Read more