User manual APPLE IWEB GETTING STARTED

[. . . ] iWeb Getting Started Get to know iWeb and learn how to create your own website 1 Contents Preface 4 4 5 5 6 7 8 8 8 9 10 13 14 16 18 20 21 23 24 24 25 26 27 28 30 31 32 33 33 34 Welcome to iWeb About This Document About iWeb iWeb Highlights Useful Words to Know For More Information Creating a Website With iWeb What You'll Learn Before You Begin Overview of Creating a Website Create a Website Add Your Own Text and Graphics Add a Photo Page Add a Blog Organize Your Website Add Links Publish Your Website on the Internet Next Steps Inspectors and Other Windows at a Glance The Inspector Window The Site Inspector The Page Inspector The Blog & Podcast Inspector The Text Inspector The Graphic Inspector The Metrics Inspector The Link Inspector The Media Browser Photos Pane Movies Pane Chapter 1 Chapter 2 2 35 36 Audio Pane The Adjust Image Window Contents 3 This document will help you quickly create a website using iWeb. If you've always wanted your own website but weren't sure how to create one, iWeb is an easy and fun way to accomplish that goal. If you already have a website but you want a new look for it, or an easier way to update it, you can use iWeb to re-create a professional-looking, easy-to-manage website. About This Document This document contains two chapters, which you can use in the order that suits you: Â Chapter 1, "Creating a Website With iWeb, " is a tutorial that takes you step by step through the process of creating a website using iWeb. Completing the tutorial--using your own photos, movies, and so on--is a great way to learn your way around the basic features of iWeb, so that you can confidently explore from there. The tutorial also provides tips for using iWeb and how to find more detailed information. [. . . ] The blog templates include a link to the archive on the main blog page. Chapter 1 Creating a Website With iWeb 17 To add a blog entry: 1 In the site organizer, click Entries. To change the title of a blog entry, do one of the following: Â Double-click the placeholder title text and type the title. To edit a blog entry: m On the Entries page, click an entry in the Title list. The entry appears below the Title list so that you can edit the entry. For more information about creating blogs--for example, how to change the length of the excerpts and import podcasts--see the "Creating blogs and podcasts" topics in iWeb Help. Organize Your Website iWeb automatically creates a navigation menu--a table of contents that appears on every page of your website. You determine the order of items in the navigation menu by rearranging pages in the iWeb site organizer. The navigation menu on each page of your website updates automatically when you reorder pages in the site organizer. Drag pages in the site organizer to reorder them. The first page in the site organizer is the website's start page (the first page visitors see). To make a different page the start page, simply drag it to the top of the list, just below the website. 18 Chapter 1 Creating a Website With iWeb When you add a new webpage to a site, iWeb automatically adds a link for it to the navigation menu. You can prevent a page from appearing in the navigation menu using the Page Inspector. For more information, see "Setting up the navigation menu (table of contents)" in iWeb Help. Deleting Webpages and Websites You can delete a webpage or website at any time by selecting it in the site organizer and pressing Delete. (The content is permanently deleted unless you choose Edit > Undo Delete immediately. ) When you delete a webpage, it is automatically removed from the navigation menu. A website must contain at least one webpage, so if you try to delete the only page in a site, the template chooser appears. If you already published a website to . Mac, deleting the site or one of its pages in iWeb doesn't delete it from the web. Your website on . Mac is updated the next time you publish another site using iWeb. When you delete a published website (and don't republish a site with the same site name), anyone who tries to visit the site (by typing in the URL or using a bookmark) sees a message that the site couldn't be found. For more information, see "Unpublishing a site" in iWeb Help. Rename a Website or Webpage When you add a new website or webpage, iWeb gives it a default name; you can rename it at any time. The site name appears in your website's URL: http://web. mac. com/YourMemberName/iWeb/SiteName The page name appears at the top of the visitor's browser window: The webpage name you specify here appears in the title bar of the browser window when someone visits your website. To rename a webpage or website: m Double-click the name in the site organizer and type the new name. If you hear a beep, you can't use the character you typed. Chapter 1 Creating a Website With iWeb 19 For website and webpage names, avoid non-Roman characters, spaces, tabs, and returns. Other characters--including backward slash (\), brackets ([ ]), exclamation point (!), "at" sign (@), number sign (#), dollar sign ($), ampersand (&), asterisk (*), and colon (:)--are not recommended. Using these characters may result in names with strange numbers in them. For more information, see the topics "Renaming a website" and "Renaming a webpage" in iWeb Help. Add Links On any of your webpages, you can add hyperlinks that your website visitors can click to open: Â Another webpage on any of your iWeb sites. Drag the page you want to link to from the site organizer to the webpage canvas. [. . . ] Rotate controls: Drag the wheel to rotate an object, or specify an angle in the Angle field. Flip buttons: Flip an image horizontally or vertically. Chapter 2 Inspectors and Other Windows at a Glance 31 The Link Inspector Use the Link Inspector to create hyperlinks users can click to open a webpage, file, or email message. A B C A B "Enable as a hyperlink" checkbox: Select to make the selected text or object a hyperlink. Â One of My Pages: Choose one of your websites or webpages from the Page pop-up menu (the Page pop-up menu appears when you choose "One of My Pages" from the Link To pop-up menu). Â An External Page: To create a link to a page on the web, type its address in the URL field. [. . . ]