Customizing Your .Mac Homepage With iWeb
- But First...There Are Some Things That You Cant Change
- The InspectoriWebs Customizing Magic Wand
- Special Shapes
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iWeb is an incredibly easy program to use for building polished Web sites in no time. One of the reasons it is so easy to use is that every page you create is built from one of Apple’s 36 templates. There is one problem: as professional as your site might look, it will likely have the somewhat cookie-cutter look that most consumer Web design tools or Web-based site building options (like the original .Mac homepage offerings). In this article, I’ll show you how to use Apple templates as starting points to build your own customized pages.
But First...There Are Some Things That You Can’t Change
Although you can modify, move, and delete many of the template components in iWeb, there are some that Apple has made permanent fixtures on each page. Most notable is the navigation menu that appears at the top of each page in iWeb. You can keep individual pages from being listed in this menu, but it will always be part of every page. You can’t even alter its appearance. It always retains the look that Apple built into the particular template you use.
Less obvious than the navigation menu are certain text boxes and pictures. The standard Welcome page templates, for example, include two text boxes (one for a page title and one for descriptive text) that cannot be deleted. You can replace the filler text and stock photo with your own content. You can move them, resize them, and modify them in any other way you like. But you cannot delete them.
All the iWeb templates include at least one item that you cannot delete. In some ways, this makes sense because deleting it might mean creating a blank page. You can identify these undeletable items easily because when you select them, the square handles on their edges (that you would use to resize them) appear gray—as opposed to the white handles on items that can be deleted.
You can work around undeletable text boxes by simply deleting the text that they contain. Visually, it does not appear on the page if you do this (though iWeb will still render them as elements on the page).