iWeb is the perfect app for what it is designed to do, make fairly good looking web sites simply and quickly. Thanks to its clever use of iWeb themes all you have to do is add a bit of content, publish to the WWW, give everyone and anyone your URL and you’re away; an online presence in minutes.

It is the use of themes however which acts as something of an Achilles heel. Being limited it only takes a number of iWeb sites to use the same theme before visitors get fed up of looking at the same site, over and over again. In this post I have compiled a list of things that you should try to avoid to stop your iWeb site looking like everybody elses iWeb site and looking like you only took 10 minutes to build it. Read more

The letterpress effect is now becoming more and more common in web design. Normally the reserve of the world of print, thanks to the advancement of browsers of late we can achieve this effect ourselves. Applying the letterpress effect to headings or navigation gives it that little ‘wow factor’, making it stand out. The effect is minimalist and subtle but can make a huge difference to the way your iWeb site looks.

Being iWeb users we are for once spoilt for choice on how to achieve this effect we can use either the font menu and image tab within iWeb’s Inspector or we can be clever and use an HTML Snippet. In this tutorial I will explain both methods, and which one I would choose. Read more

As a precursor to some of the CSS3 based iWeb tutorials I have planned for All About iWeb in the very near future I thought it may be a good idea if I explained how an iWeb site is acutally made up in comparison to a regular web-site. In the long-term it should make things easier if we all have a better understanding of the file structure and layout of an iWeb site. Read more

After a rather extended break over Christmas and the New Year All About iWeb is back! Sorry for the long period of silence but I’ve had soooo many things on my plate; busy in my regular day job, starting app design for iPad/iPhone and I’ve been going backwards and forwards to London to try and get my injured Achilles tendon sorted out (I have a lovely aircast on my left leg at the moment).

Enough of the excuses, let’s get on with the post. As the regular readers of this site will know I spend a lot of my time checking out as many iWeb sites as I can to see what can be achieved and every now and again I put together a post showing of some of the best I found. It’s been a while so here for your iWeb inspiration is a collection of a few more….enjoy!! Read more

Call to action buttons are everywhere on the WWW, but what makes an effective call to action button? What is a call to action button and why do we use them?

In this post I want to explain the call to action button ‘best practices’ and how you can use iWeb 09 to build your own. Read more