iTweak - iWeb’s Companion
- Download iTweak 1.4.9
- Donate
- Haloscan Comments Tutorial
- PHP Contact Form Tutorial
- Password-protection Tutorial
- Favicon Tutorial
- Google Search Tutorial (Not yet updated for iTweak)
- Hitcounter (Statcounter, Google Analytics) Tutorial
iTweak is the ultimate companion for iWeb which allows you to add nearly all the missing things. To make this short and effective, here is a list of the main features:
- iTweak can back up both iWeb 06 and iWeb 08 sites in a snap
- It can add a Favicon via a simple drag and drop method
- You can integrate a Google Search bar into and for your site
- You can add Google Analytics, Statcounter and any other hitcounter in the world
- Easily embed the Haloscan Commenting system
- Add a powerful PHP contact form
- Search & Replace the HTML that iWeb publishes
- iTweak can password-protect your site
iTweak is freeware and because of that we kindly ask you to donate if you wish to. We have put a lot of effort into iTweak and so a small reward is appreciated very much. Thanks to those who will donate!
Take a look at some screeenshots if you want as well:
If you run into any problems with iTweak, then please drop us a mail and we would be delighted to help you out. Please do NOT post a comment below (or on the tutorial post). Thank you.
Additional Note
Looking for cool iWeb Templates? Go here.
If you enjoy my Tutorial and wish to make a small Donation, then feel free to do so by clicking here.
04 Apr 08 at 10:00 am
Hi, I think your iTweak program sounds great. i downloaded it but it won’t open now. Nothing happens when i double click. Any help would be great.
Thanks,
Peter
05 Apr 08 at 6:47 pm
I too am having trouble opening iTweak. I click on the .app file and it doesn’t do anything.
05 Apr 08 at 7:00 pm
Hm - let me look at the zip. I will reupload a new version.
06 Apr 08 at 12:13 am
Hi,
Having same issue as others with iTweak app launch.
You’re doing great stuff, by the way. Fantastic videos.
06 Apr 08 at 3:35 pm
Hopefully, This is not some April Fools Joke, iTweak sounds great, i tried opening it before and nothing happened; tried it again now, and it comes up with a message saying “…because it may be damaged or incomplete.” Any ideas?
06 Apr 08 at 5:02 pm
Sorry guys! I accidentally made it Leopard only. It should now work. Make sure the file is named exactly “iTweak.app”
Let me know if it works or not!
Max
07 Apr 08 at 2:57 pm
Just downloaded it, Opens fine; only thing is: I’ve tried following the instructions, but for some reason, the favicon is not appearing on my web page.
07 Apr 08 at 3:27 pm
Worked out the problem, was putting the FTP address rather than the http://... address. One thing that i did find a pain was that when an error occurred, I had to force quit iTweak, as it just froze; anyway of changing it so that it stops trying to carry out the actions?
07 Apr 08 at 9:54 pm
Tim - are you on .Mac? The favicon should appear after you clear your cache and try it with a few browsers. Of course, you need the correct URL.
Max
08 Apr 08 at 6:19 pm
Hi Max!
This application is great!
I have two things that mite be good to include in the next update, both quite small things.
1. Add a cancel box so when you process your site you can cancel it and maybe edit something..
Hope this helps to make this brill app even better!!
09 Apr 08 at 6:33 pm
a cancel button wont be that hard. getting it done right now.
max
10 Apr 08 at 9:16 am
Not on .Mac unfortunately, but it works fine now I’ve put in the right addy. That cancel bow would be great!
Thanks for such a great app!
Tim
13 Apr 08 at 6:59 am
I have leopard. i tried downloading this several times. I just bought my mac and want to build a website on iweb, but can’t figure out how to do html. I thought itweak might help, but I cannot open it , It says apple script error - something about it not being defined. Can you help me?
Thanks
jay
13 Apr 08 at 9:17 am
did you choose your site?
max
17 Apr 08 at 9:30 pm
The first time I add the favicon to my webside (.mac) it worked perfect. After I add somthing to it, I tried to get the favicon back to the webside, but didn’t work. Tried it serveral times.
21 Apr 08 at 9:48 pm
Hello out there. – Following the tempring recommendations for iTweak I also loaded it down. My system running is OS 10.4.11, but I cannot open it. – It would be a great help for me at the moment, what can i do?
28 Apr 08 at 8:42 pm
hi, i downloaded iTweak and tried to integrate with HaloScan comments. Once i clicked ‘process site’, it seems to be taking ages to process and after more than an hour i’ve to force-quit the program as it seems to have stopped responding. What’s wrong?
04 May 08 at 7:37 am
not sure if i did something wrong or not, but i tried adding a favicon using itweak and it didn’t work. well, at least i’m not seeing it.
05 May 08 at 3:57 pm
Great website, and software, thanks for all your hard work. I am having trouble adding my favicon after I submitted my sitemap to iWeb. Here is the error message that I am receiving. Any suggestions?
Can’t make alias “80GB:private:var:folders: F: F-TLvWvFEKxnhxM9AebBU TI:TemporaryItems:._google54186d957d075702.html” into type . (-1700)
THANKS!
05 May 08 at 4:59 pm
Zac - I am just writing you a mail about this. The problem is that imap writes this file for some reason in a way, iTweak does not like it. I am planning to update iMap for that!
Erik - It seems like you are using Safari. Its probably a Cache issue. Try viewing your site on a different mac and browser. See if it works that way.
07 May 08 at 4:53 am
excited about itweak
seems i’m set to add my favicon to my .mac site
all good up to when i hit hit” process to site” button, processing starts then an error message -apple script error -” the variable the_site_folder is not defined (-2753)”
and i need to force quit
i’m pretty sure i’m making a newbie error
i tried using my short URL address
should i be using the massively long address generated by .mac?
or..?
help
thank you ’cause with a little i might just get there
ea b
09 May 08 at 9:03 pm
Ea - I dropped you a mail about it.
13 May 08 at 5:14 am
Hi Max,
I can’t open it on my imac 10.5. It said “You cannot open the application “iTweak-1” because it is not supported on this architecture.”
13 May 08 at 7:50 am
Try renaming the app to iTweak. without the -1
max
15 May 08 at 4:56 am
Hey Max! I think iTweak is a great idea. Sorry to say it is highly unstable for me. I tried your tutorial, als it did NOT work. Also I have no “options” button. What the heck dude? Where did you put that bad boy? I reinstalled it but to no avail! IS 1.4.5 the latest model? Are you like that guy MAD MAX? All joking aside if you could send me the version with Options I will send you some cake, cool?
Jamez~
“We’re NOT Consumer Reports- YOU ARE!”
15 May 08 at 9:04 pm
James - sorry for the confusion there. In the new version you can tick the option right above the textfields and thus, there is no need for the separate options window (and the button).
See this post: http://guimkie.com/itweak/itweak-options-change/
Now send me the cake
31 May 08 at 6:48 am
Nice piece of software. But how do I have it count stats on more than one site?
I got it to work with statcounter on my main site hosted on .mac and built in iWeb, but I want to track a secondary site on .mac and built in iWeb.
But when I open iTweak it just has the first site I did already. Is it a one time operation so if I delete the code field and paste in new code for other site and redirect it it does not screw up older site stat counting?
thanks
01 Jun 08 at 10:23 pm
Dennis,
You will have to paste in the code for each site. Then just choose the site to which you would like to add the code.
If you want to add the code for all your sites, then instead of choosing your site, choose the folder that governs all the published ones.
Hope that made sense. I think I talked a bit weird….
Max
03 Jun 08 at 3:08 am
Thanks Max.
So paste in one code and then after that paste in the second code and tell itweak to choose the folder idisk folder that has both sites in it?
Statcounter had some kind of explosion so they were down much of the weekend!
06 Jun 08 at 10:54 pm
Hi,
You made a great thing!!! Thanks!!!
I’m not an expert on iWeb, but I managed to make a web site.
I used your iWeb Expander to create a favicon for my site and it worked well. However, since a switched to iTweak, I’ve been having some problems. I wanted to recreate a favicon and to add a statcounter code. In iTweak everything went smoothly, but when I went to Firefox/Safari to check-out my site before I publish it finally some of my pages were lost. Links were OK, but the .html pages were empty.
Since I’m not the expert in the field, I really need your help to solve this if possible. I can of course republish my site without favicon and statcounter, but it would be much better if you could help me solve the problem.
Thanks a lot,
Lena
BTW, I have OS 10.4.11.
09 Jun 08 at 2:04 am
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21 Jun 08 at 8:50 pm
iTweak freezes every time I try to select my published site. It will let me get to my idisk folder but as soon as I click on Web it’s done. I made sure I’m using the latest version etc. What am I doing wrong because everyone else seems to be able to get it to work and your forums say you’ve got the freezing issues sorted out????
22 Jun 08 at 2:59 am
Hi Guys,
I recently processed my site with itweak to create a favicon. The processing say’s everything was a success. The trouble is I still have no favicon. Please help. I like what you guys are up to!
Cheers,
Jonathan Doyle nycreator.com
22 Jun 08 at 10:48 am
hi, i use iTweak to add comments on my sites published via dotMac. I used to be able to embed the comments, however, recently iTweak has not been successful. I keep getting an error message for adding comments. What may be the problem? is there a limit to pages?
Ryan - for me, iTweak doesn’t exactly freeze but the screen does look frozen, sometimes it takes me about half an hour just waiting for iTweak to select site.
22 Jun 08 at 6:46 pm
Sally — thanks for the info. I’ll try waiting it out. I guess I could be a little impatient - so says my wife.
22 Jun 08 at 7:18 pm
To all the ones above and future posters,
Please do not post any of your problems here. The chances that I will answer here is not very likely as it just ends up in a mess. Go ahead and drop me a mail via email. With that you should be getting your response.
Regards,
Max
05 Jul 08 at 11:43 pm
I did a Favicon on itweak and now my site looks like crap how in the world do i fix this problem.
07 Jul 08 at 8:46 pm
Hi
Perfect. My Favicon is perfect.
Thanks
Domingo.
09 Jul 08 at 12:00 pm
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11 Jul 08 at 1:34 am
I used iTweak a couple of times. Now I get an error message “There has been an error while trying to add comments (or hitcounter, both give en error message)”.
Thanks
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14 Jul 08 at 8:24 pm
I can see my favicon in Firefox, but not in Safari. Why?
16 Jul 08 at 6:35 am
Thank you for these tool!!! I like it a lot!!
I just used the itweak to add a contact form, but the “thank you” page lose the format and Show me in the top these message:
Warning: mail(): SMTP server response: 451 See http://pobox.com/~djb/docs/smtplf.html. in d:\www\l\e\learnwithme.com\www\Learn with me\gracias.php on line 46″
what can I do to solve these problem.
Thank you
17 Jul 08 at 3:30 am
Max,
the idea is great and if at a glance I can add ‘bits’ of HTML that would be great. Haven’t gone through all the detail and tutes yet. However, you do not state what OS X versions it will work with. I have OS X 10.4.7 - Let us know
thanks, Anthony
18 Jul 08 at 7:56 am
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22 Jul 08 at 6:54 am
Hi Max,
Terrific program and by the look of the posts above congrats on being so helpful to all. I have a straight forward question. I have used itweak to embed google analytics and favicon to my site. If I now make adjustments to my travel diary page and publish just that page to .mac rather than select the ‘publish all to .mac’ option do I still need to run your program again? I am hoping I can make additions to this page without needing to run itweak each time as it takes some time. Thanks, Chris
22 Jul 08 at 10:04 am
Will itweak be able to edit the atl attributes of the iweb page?
22 Jul 08 at 7:18 pm
@ Anthony - iT works with anything bigger than 10.4.1.
@ Chris - Yes, you have to run iTweak each time you publish. That makes sure that the counter actually stays on the pages.
@Aldo - You mean the atls of photos? No I don’t think so. That would be to much of a hassle to work with.
Max
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31 Jul 08 at 1:01 pm
Hi there,
Downloaded iTweak to add a statcounter to my iWeb site but when selecting iDisk/Web, it seems to hang. Might not be a problem with the program because in Finder I can’t open that folder either. Only under MobileMe does it actually show my site…
Any ideas would be much appreciated!
Jorma
31 Jul 08 at 3:38 pm
Looks like a great program, and I really want it to work. Unfortunately every time I select my site folder in iDisk I get an apple script error. Don’t know what the hang up is.
01 Aug 08 at 4:43 pm
Dan,
What is the exact error you are getting? Alias error? Is iDisk syncing activated? Needs to be deactivated for iTweak to work.
Write me a mail if you have any further problems.
Max
04 Aug 08 at 12:39 pm
Just wondering… is there a way to make it send to 2 or more e-mail addresses??
05 Aug 08 at 7:43 pm
In ITweak, try typing your emails separated with a comma or semicolon. For example:
mail@mail.com;mail@mail.com or mail@mail.com,mail@mail.com
or maybe you need to add space. I have no idea
Max
06 Aug 08 at 4:10 am
I just launched my new website that I created with iWeb only, I’m looking for new tweaks for the iWeb, like tools, utilities, I can’t find anything
Can anyone advise?
Daniel
http://Www.bloginity.com
06 Aug 08 at 4:50 pm
Since a few days after MobileMe came out, I have not been able to get iTweak to work. I have tried numerous times on different days, and always the same result:
Hitcounter error
There has been an error while trying to add the hitcounter.
06 Aug 08 at 6:19 pm
DSHills,
I am sorry to hear that but I myself haven’t gotten iTweak to work with my test account. I don’t know what Apple is doing … but it su***s!
Max
07 Aug 08 at 8:19 pm
I forgot Dan, um … well there is iTweak and iMap. I am not aware of any other ones. There is one script to add Analytics code - but I think thats about it.
Max
09 Aug 08 at 2:52 pm
Hi Max.
For me, everything work fine, but… I can´t see my favicon with Safari. You know why?
Thanks.
Domingo
13 Aug 08 at 8:03 pm
Hey Max,
Been using iTweak for a weak and found it very helpful. The contact form was working in 1.45 and 46. But updated today and now i get this error message.
There has been an error while trying to add the contact form. WITH ERRROR MSG: The operation could not be completed.
Don’t know the reason why it has started to give this error. Thanks.
13 Aug 08 at 8:35 pm
Kumu,
Does the error go away if you republish your site?
Drop me an email with the steps you are taking to get that error. Maybe I accidentally fiddled something up in the 1.4.6 build.
Max
14 Aug 08 at 10:26 am
hope you got my email. any ideas.
14 Aug 08 at 12:57 pm
Where did you send it to? I didn’t get it yet. Use the contact form.
Max
15 Aug 08 at 2:25 pm
I used your old video to set up Statcounter with iWeb in the past, so this is my attempt to use iTweak.
The directions say to “choose the site” (from iWeb via iDisk).
However, when I go to do this, there is an alias on the Web folder
and it is greyed out. When I navigate to the folder on my desktop
there is no alias and the Web folder is active and I can see my sites.
Any suggestions?
16 Aug 08 at 11:21 am
Tom,
I am guessing you have iDisk syncing activated. Make sure you deactivate that while iTweak tries to process your site.
Regards,
Max
19 Aug 08 at 3:37 pm
Hi, thanks for your great tool! We’re using it to add Google Analytics code to an iWeb-published site, it’s much easier than having to edit all those pages manually. Pasting the tracking code into a HTML Snippet won’t work correctly, since iWeb uses frames instead of adding the code directly to the pagename.html-file. Without your tool, adding the code manually each time would be quite a nuisance. So again, thank you very much!