With web design rapidly evolving every day, it is rather obvious that the standard iWeb themes can not suffice the needs of a web designer. Thankfully there is a large market of third-party developers that make gorgeous and state-of-the-art iWeb themes for users to buy or download for free.
So for iWeb users that are looking for iWeb themes, here is a carefully picked list of the best iWeb theme developers:
Feel free to extend this list by posting new iWeb theme developers in the comments section.
AllAboutiWeb not only has an article on how to make your iWeb site look good on an iPhone or iPod Touch, it has recently published a tutorial that allows you to detect if you have a visitor from one of Apple’s mobile devices.
It is quite useful to detect visitors from a mobile device because that allows you to redirect them to a modified website suited for smaller screens.
It actually isn’t very hard – here’s how:
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Apple recently introduced a brand-new version of it’s iLife. Incidentally, the new iLife does include a new version of iWeb (who would have thought that?). Although there are only a few minor updates, some of the new features change things in relation to iMap and iTweak.
Until now, iWeb had two publishing options: MobileMe or a folder. These two options remain. Apple however added a third option: publishing via FTP to your server. Houston we have a problem! All those who used to just publish to a folder and then upload to a server, will now upload directly using FTP. That is good for the iWeb-user, bad for iTweak/iMap user.
When the files go directly to the FTP server, without being published to a folder, iTweak/iMap can not edit the files and so fail to be functional. Neither iMap nor iTweak support the editing of files via FTP. Therefore, if you wish to use iMap/iTweak, then you must publish to a folder and continue to upload via an external client.
Of course, it does quite suck if you have to still publish to a folder even though iWeb now supports direct “FTPing.” We are already working on a way for iMap and iTweak to edit the files via FTP. We however have no plan when the updates for this will arrive. Stay put; subscribe to the blog for updates.
If you have been using MobileMe all along, you shouldn’t be running into any problems at all.
Did you ever want this cool image-zoom effect? You click on an image and the image enlarges itself right in the window? No reloading and it all looks sexy? Well this tutorial will show you a perfect and easy way to add an effect that will enlarge your images right in your iWeb-made site.
Image Zooms … what? Not sure what I am talking about? Take a look at the demo.
The internet has quite a variety of scripts that allow you to create these zooms. Here are just a few:
All of them are very easy to integrate, but Cabel Sassers FancyZoom is the simplest. That’s why we will be using his.
Now let’s get started.
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Adding JS-Kit Comments to iWeb
Are you one of those users who would wish to have comments integrated right into your site but you are publishing to a folder and so you can’t do that? Or you want to have comments not just on your blog posts? You want to let people comment on your latest photo album? With this tutorial, you will be able to do this.
With the help of JS-Kit and iTweak this is all possible.
If you want to see how the outcome looks, then head over to the demo.
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