Hey all,
I'm currently working on an iWeb website for my wedding. We chose the "Elegant" template (the one where you have different coloured headers for different page templates).
Since our colours are some kind of retro brown and pink, I would like to have the pink header on every page (that includes the top header and the pic behind the navigation menu). However, iweb forces me to use a certain coloured header based on a new page. Since I didn't want to mess with the iweb interface, I decided to publish my website on a folder on my harddrive, overwrite the coloured hearders files with the pink version, using the same name (as a consequence, I have a pink header named "xxxxx_yellow_top.png" and "xxxxxx_yellow_bottom.png for example). Thus, the website displays the right colour on every page. I then use a FTP app to publish it on the internet.
When I update the content of a page then publish the website on my harddrive again, it keeps the header files I modified, so that works very well. However, on some updates (I guess when I make a change to the navigation menu), iWeb overwrites the modified header file and I have to do the same operation all over again.
Is there anyway for me to have that pink header on every page of my website, without having to do some trickery ?
I have two other quick questions :
- I'd like the blog page to be my main page on the website (index.htm), however, when I do that, the navigation menu is empty even though I have other pages on my website. It looks like I must have a "welcome" page before I can have a blog page on the site. Am I missing something ? Can't I have the blog page to be my first page on the website, and correctly displaying the navigation menu ?
- on the blog page, I checked the box to have the search feature enabled. It correctly displays it on the iweb interface, but when I publish my website, the search box is not there. What am I doing wrong ?
This is my first time using iWeb, and I have to say that even though it offers a lot of great tools to have a nice website up very quickly, it's a nightmare to customize.
Should I maybe create the general look and feel of the website on iweb, then edit it on dreamweaver ?
Thanks for your help, my future wife is putting a lot of pressure on me to get this thing ready ASAP
I'm currently working on an iWeb website for my wedding. We chose the "Elegant" template (the one where you have different coloured headers for different page templates).
Since our colours are some kind of retro brown and pink, I would like to have the pink header on every page (that includes the top header and the pic behind the navigation menu). However, iweb forces me to use a certain coloured header based on a new page. Since I didn't want to mess with the iweb interface, I decided to publish my website on a folder on my harddrive, overwrite the coloured hearders files with the pink version, using the same name (as a consequence, I have a pink header named "xxxxx_yellow_top.png" and "xxxxxx_yellow_bottom.png for example). Thus, the website displays the right colour on every page. I then use a FTP app to publish it on the internet.
When I update the content of a page then publish the website on my harddrive again, it keeps the header files I modified, so that works very well. However, on some updates (I guess when I make a change to the navigation menu), iWeb overwrites the modified header file and I have to do the same operation all over again.
Is there anyway for me to have that pink header on every page of my website, without having to do some trickery ?
I have two other quick questions :
- I'd like the blog page to be my main page on the website (index.htm), however, when I do that, the navigation menu is empty even though I have other pages on my website. It looks like I must have a "welcome" page before I can have a blog page on the site. Am I missing something ? Can't I have the blog page to be my first page on the website, and correctly displaying the navigation menu ?
- on the blog page, I checked the box to have the search feature enabled. It correctly displays it on the iweb interface, but when I publish my website, the search box is not there. What am I doing wrong ?
This is my first time using iWeb, and I have to say that even though it offers a lot of great tools to have a nice website up very quickly, it's a nightmare to customize.
Should I maybe create the general look and feel of the website on iweb, then edit it on dreamweaver ?
Thanks for your help, my future wife is putting a lot of pressure on me to get this thing ready ASAP