Tutorials and great Mac software!
If you watched the tutorial on how to use iMap, then you’ll probably going to like this.
This is the second part to the tutorial. It explains how to use iMap in conjunction with the Google Webmaster Tools: how to get a Google Webmaster Tools project, how to verify your site and add a sitemap. All this will ultimately help you to show up on Google.
If you haven’t watched the first tutorial just yet, then go ahead and do that first.
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.
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.
I know, I know, I know! Instead of fixing up the existing sites, I am creating one new one after the other one.
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!