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:

All you have to do is add a small snippet of code to all of your pages. Done! You can add this piece of HTML code manually (as the AllAboutiWeb tutorial does it) or using a tool like iTweak.

We will show you how to add this code using iTweak. If you wish to add it manually, we suggest following the excellent tutorial by AllAboutiWeb.

1. Start by downloading iTweak.
2. The following script handles everything from detecting your visitors and redirecting them to your modified website. There is only one piece in the puzzle that you have to change. The script needs to know, to where it should redirect visitors from mobile devices.
   So in the script below, replace the sampleaddress.com/MobileSite with the address you want your mobile visitors to be directed to.

   <script type="text/javascript">
if((navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone/i)) ||(navigator.userAgent.match(/iPod/i))) {
if (document.cookie.indexOf("iphone_redirect=false") == -1)
window.location = http://sampleaddress.com/MobileSite;}
}
</script></head>

3. Now open up iTweak and navigate to the Search & Replace tab. Select the checkmark. Then choose your published site. If you publish to MobileMe or .Mac you will find your site on the iDisk (located at iDisk/Web/Sites/)
   If you publish to a folder, you will hopefully know where your site is.
   If you publish to your FTP server directly from iWeb, you will have to download your site from the server first. iTweak can only edit your site if they are on your hard-drive or on the iDisk.
4. Once your site is chosen, click the + button and paste the following code into the search box:

   </head>
   
   In the replace box, you paste the edited code from step two. Do make sure you paste all of the code into the box.

   In the end it should look similar to this:

   

5. You can now optionally Save the Search & Replace table so that you don’t have to re-edit and type the code you want to run iWeb.
6. Now click the Process Site button and let iTweak add the code to your site. If you now view you site from an iPhone or iPod touch, you should automatically be redirected to your mobile site.

Do you want to create sitemaps for your iWeb site? Add some Meta-Tags? Check out iMap.

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.

1. Download iTweak. Make sure you are running the latest version of iTweak. You can check for the latest version of iTweak by clicking the “iTweak” menu item in iTweak and then selecting “Check for Updates.”
2. Now open iWeb and create a text-box at the position where you would like the comments and the entry-fields to appear. Choose an appropriate width and height.
3. In the text-box, type the following keyword (do not copy-and-paste it from here):

   %%JSKIT_COMMENTS%%

   See this screenshot:

   

4. Now publish your site either to MobileMe or to a folder. Once completed, open iTweak and navigate to the “Search & Replace” tab on the very right.
5. Tick the checkmark-option to “Search & Replace.” In the table, click the “+” button and so add a new row. In the left column, enter the following:

   %%JSKIT_COMMENTS%%

   In the right column copy and paste this:

   <div class="js-kit-comments" permalink=""></div><script src="http://js-kit.com/comments.js"></script>

   See this screenshot:

   

   You can use the saving mechanism to save the contents of the search and replace table. In that way you do not have to re-enter this code each time you open iTweak. You can then just open the previously saved table.

6. Choose your published site by hitting the “Choose published Site.” If you publish your site to a folder, you should know where you can find it. If you publish to MobileMe, you find your site on the iDisk.
   MobileMe iWeb ‘08 users use this path:

   iDisk/Web/Sites/SITENAME

   iWeb ‘06 users follow this path:

   iDisk/Web/Sites/iWeb/SITENAME

   Replace the keyword “SITENAME” with your actual sitename.

7. Now just hit the “Process Site” button. If you publish to a folder, you must now upload the site to your server so that the comments appear. If you view at them on your Mac, the comments will not be visible.

   Everyone: Keep in mind that the next time you publish from iWeb, iWeb will overwrite these changes. Hence, you will have to run iTweak each time you publish from iWeb to ensure that the comments will show up.

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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.

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:

• FancyBox
• LightBox
• FancyZoom

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.

1. For this tutorial you will be needing four things:

   » iTweak. It’s free.
   » This search and replace database file for iTweak.
   » The actual FancyZoom. Download it from the blog post.
   » An iWeb-site with an image. That image needs to be enabled as a hyperlink. That hyperlink needs to go to an image file (the image that should later enlarge). The file type should be .jpeg or .png. For more details, see the FancyZoom post by Cabel.

   

2. Now publish your iWeb site to your default location.
3. Now go ahead and take a look at the downloaded FancyZoom folder. Inside there you should find two further folders. One is named images-zoom and the other js-global. Open up the images-zoom folder. Inside that folder you will find another folder. Open that one up as well. In there you will find a collection of images. Move all of the images into the folder js-global two directories higher. You can now trash the images-zoom folder.

   

4. Rename the folder js-global to fancy-zoom.
5. Now we have to do some nasty little code editing. What you have to do is open up the file FancyZoom.js and edit line 44 from this:

   var zoomImagesURI = '/images-global/zoom/'; // Location of the zoom and shadow images

   to this:

   var zoomImagesURI = 'fancy-zoom/'; // Location of the zoom and shadow images

   Alternatively you can just download the edited file and replace it with the original one.

6. Open up iTweak and navigate to the Search & Replace tab. There you will find a button labeled “Open Table.” Click on it and now choose the file downloaded previously. The file is named FancyZoom.itwksr. Once you’ve opened it up, you should see something like this:

   

   Make sure you tick the option to “Search & Replace Code.”

7. Now navigate to the “File Copy” tab in iTweak. Tick the option to “Copy Files.” Then click the “+” button and for your source folder select the renamed folder fancy-zoom (step 4). For your destination folder select your published iWeb site.

   

   Optionally you can save the “File Copy” table using the “Save Table” button. That will allow you to reopen the table the next time you launch iTweak without having to manually reselect your folders.

8. Now click the button in the bottom-left labeled “Choose Published Site.” Navigate to your published site and hit “Choose.” Then hit the “Create” button and iTweak should do it’s job.
9. Now you’re done! Visit your site and enjoy the zoom you’ve got.
   Please do note that when you publish again … you’ll have to start all over with this tutorial as iWeb overwrites the published files each time you publish.

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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.

Please note that this tutorial is only available to those who publish to a folder and upload to a server that is capable of running .htaccess files. Please ask your hosting service first before you start this tutorial.

View a the final result (a demo) here or get right started.

1. As stated earlier, you will have to have downloaded the latest version of iTweak (this tutorial requires at least version 1.4.7). Publish your site from iWeb as well.
   To protect your site, you need to have a password, a username and the absolute path to another file (more on that later).
2. We will start off with the login data.
   htAccess, the method for the password protection, requires the login data to be encrypted. .
   To encrypt your login data, visit this site. Enter your username and your preferred password into the two provided textfields. For this tutorial I will be using “Hello” as my username and “World” as my password. See this example:

   

   Click “Create Password” and continue to the next step.

3. Now you will get a page with your username and you password jammed between two dark blue bars. It should say your username and then a combination of weird letters and symbols separated from the username through a colon.

   

   Copy this whole encryption and get ready to paste it into iTweak (Shortcut: Apple + C).

4. Open up iTweak and navigate to the “Security” tab. Tick the option to password-protect your site and in the text-field labeled “Login Data” paste in the encrypted data from the previous step. Make sure you copy/type this password 100% correctly!!!
   You can now type in your username in iTweak as well. Your window should now look something like this:

   

5. Now we have to deal with filling the last text-field; the absolute path to the .htpasswd file. There are two options to solve this. Either you can use a file I made to easily get the absolute path (requires a PHP-capable server) or you have to contact your hosting service and ask them about the absolute path.

   » Option A: Go ahead and download this file. Place the file named “info.php” inside the published folder from iWeb. Upload the whole folder (or just the contents, depending on how you like it) to your server. Now visit the file in your browser by typing a URL similar to this:

   http://domain.com/Sitename/info.php

   or if you only upload folder contents then type something similar to this:

   http://domain.com/info.php

   When you view the file you should find a huge blue table outlining all sorts of geeky stuff. Search for “SCRIPT_FILENAME” and to the right of that you will see the absolute path to the “info.php” file.
   Now copy the whole path except for the first slash and the “/info.php” extension:

   

   » Option B: If you server does not support PHP, then simply contact your hosting provider and ask them for the absolute path to be used inside your .htaccess file. They will know what your talking about.

   In both cases, please note that the path varies from each person! There is no scheme or pattern that you can follow.

6. Having acquired the absolute path in the previous step, copy and paste it into the provided text-field in iTweak. See this image:

   

7. Now choose your published site by hitting the “Choose Published Site” button and then hit “Process Site.” iTweak will now protect your site with the 100% secure .htaccess method. It will create two invisible files that you won’t see in the Finder. If you upload your site to your server by simply grabbing the whole published folder, then thats fine and the protection will work fine. On the other hand, if you just upload the contents of a published folder, then you have to use something like Coda to view invisible files in your Mac and make sure they get uploaded as well!
8. Done! The next time you publish, simply reuse iTweak to add the protection and your ready to go.
   If you run into any problems, please contact me via email and do NOT use the comments form below.

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Looking for iWeb Templates? Check out my huge collection right here.

If you have enjoyed this article and you wish to make a small donation, then feel free to do so by clicking here.

My new site that will be coming up is a Showcase site for sites created in iWeb. It will allow anyone to submit their site and if it is visually interesting, I will add it up to the gallery.

Let me know what you think about this by chatting about it in the comments section. Thanks!

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!

Now what is FancyBox? It is a jQuery based script that will make thumbnailed images zoom up and enlarge. Best way to understand what I am talking about is to look at the demo.

You can take a look at this awesome thing in a demo page I made in iWeb:

http://guimkie.com/fancybox-beta/

Please only view this in FireFox and Safari on a Mac. These are the only things with which I have tested it. Camino fails completely.

I’ll open up the scripts as soon as I get it to work properly. That means I will have a pack for those who enjoy coding themselves and then I will have it integrated right into the next major update on iTweak! Yep – the next major update for iTweak, not the 1.2 version. You’ll see this stuff coming soon.

The more you nag me, the higher the chance I get this stuff done. I am kind of a person who always shifts things to the last minute, so tell me to be faster.

Let’s give this tutorial an example. You publish your site in iWeb and your unsure how to get it up to GoDaddy, 1and1 or many of the other hosting providers. Well, after following this tutorial you will be an expert at uploading your site from the published folder up to your server.

If you’re ready to do the tutorial, then click the read on link and enjoy a high-quality video tutorial.

Do you want new iWeb Templates? Go here.

So let’s get started with the Tutorial:

1. You ain’t needing any starting material for this tutorial – so skip this step. Haha!
2. Launch Video Tutorial
   I mentioned links? Yes I did, get Cyberduck here and Transmit here. To see a list of FTP clients for the Mac, check this page.
3. Boom baby that was it! Don’t forget your password and remember to upload your site everytime you publish from iWeb (duh, lol).

Additional Note

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