Have you ever wanted one of those fascinating contact forms right in your site? It isn’t that hard if you code your sites yourself – but with iWeb, getting and adding one becomes a bit more difficult. With this tutorial, I will aim to show you in a very simple way how to easily and rapidly add a cool PHP contact form right to your iWebsite.
For this tutorial, we will be using a free application called iTweak. You can go ahead and download it right here.
Please note that this tutorial will require the use of a PHP capable server. Otherwise, the tutorial and the form will not work. .Mac, sadly, is not capable of PHP. All those who don’t have PHP support, can take a look at a simple HTML snippet ready code from Wufoo.
The finished form will have a name, email, website field and a textarea for people to type their message. The style will apply to the theme you are using in iWeb. Simply try it out and you’ll see how it looks.
See the demo page for the result.
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After a really long wait (and empty promises), me and Jay have managed to bring out the all new iTweak. If you can’t wait to get it, here is the product page.
Although the application is finished, I haven’t had any chances to bring out any new tutorials of any kind, so you will have to use those that exist for iWebExpander. I will bring out the new ones as soon as possible.
Sorry for making this post very sloppy…
In the meantime, here is a list of how things work:
- Favicon tutorial works just like the old one
- Google Search works also like the old one
- Hitcounter, same thing as well
- Haloscan comments can be integrated by adding a textbox with the contents %%HALOSCAN_COMMENTS%%
- Contact form works with textboxes created on two pages. In the textbox where you want the form to appear, you type %%CONTACT_FORM_MAIN%% and in the textbox on the page where you want the “Thanks” message, you type this: %%CONTACT_FORM_SUB%%. Then in iTweak, select the two pages and your ready to go.
- The search and replace feature works as one expects. You can save the table data and load existing ones. Remember, this replaces the HTML of your site. This also means that your replace code show be in HTML
As I am still working on iTweak, I have finally reached the very end of releasing it. There are only two more bugs and features to complete and then this app will go out in the world.
One of the great new features of iTweak is the ability to create a PHP contact form for your iWeb site. I have been creating a very good one and I am close to actually using that one.
Take a look at the demo here.
Any recommendations and ideas are gladly heard! This would be the basic outcome of the form if you use iTweak. You can use the comments below to tell me how you like/dislike it.
Thanks and happy easter!
Okay, I have finally put together a close-to-working version of iTweak. It does nearly everything but there are still, some annoying bugs that I want to fix. That’s why I am also sending out a private beta to certain testers so they can really give me some feedback.
It is a private beta because I do not want to send out a not-fully working version and then get zillions of support mails. Sorry about that.
BTW – All of those who gave iWebExpander up cause of the Timeout error, that error is now fixed! YAY!
Enjoy (at least those invited to the beta)!
Anyone who feels that they should be part of the beta, drop me a mail and I’d be willing to send you the beta. Though, this is not to get the next version, this is for me getting feedback! I will only send the beta to those of which I feel they can provide that feedback and not just tell me “this is not working but I love iTweak.”
Lastly, to really get you watering, here are some screenshots:
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Adding Haloscan Comments to iWeb
UPDATE: Haloscan has been purchased by JS-Kit. Hence, Haloscan is out of service and you can only use JS-Kit to add comments to iWeb. There is a new tutorial that will show you how to do this.
For this tutorial, we will be using a free application called iTweak. It has been made to simplify such additions to the iWeb application and so it is just perfect to use.
So let’s get right started!
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