Wills-splog

New themes on Language Pages at iWebUserSites

willssplog — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:56:38 +0000

Its been a while since my last entry, anyway I just wanted to let people know that I have changed the theme / layout of the “Web sites in other languages” pages on http://www.iWebUserSites.com.

I just felt like a change was in order, something a little different to the white pages that I have used forever! I didn’t want to get too fancy, just nice and simple, a new color scheme and I have resized the text.

I hope that people do like the new look and feel, please feel free to comment. I have some other ideas of things that I would like to do. My favorite idea is to store the sites in mySQL and dynamically display them based on the page selected, but there are two problems with that. Firstly I don’t have the knowledge of mySQL and secondly time is a factor in learning it, although I do feel that once I have, then maintaining the site would be much faster. It could also make for a much more searchable usable interface.

Enjoy.
Will

I moved my blog to WordPress

willssplog — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 22:44:30 +0000

Having moved my hosting away from dot mac, I thought that I might start to update my blog from time to time. Also the fact that I have a new project, I thought that I might share it with others. But, as iWeb loses commenting when hosted away from dot mac I decided to try out WordPress.

Wrapping arrives at willg4pb.com

willssplog — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:00:37 +0000

Having had an article on my test site for months about using wrapping, I decided that it was time to bring it here.

So off you go, take a look, I hope that you like it

Will

Inspector 1.1!

willssplog — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:00:30 +0000

As I have been updating the site with the new look, I thought that I should finish off everything, including bringing the Inspector section up to date. this was one of the first things that I did, and I haven’t updated since iWeb 1.1 came out with new options in Inspector.

Therefore today I have once again written bits and pieces about Inspector, I cannot stress how useful it is for iWebbers to know what Inspector can do, it can save a lot of frustration. Take some time and have a play, create some dummy pages and tweak them with Inspector.

Good inspecting, Will!

willg4pb.com is updated – You may have noticed the new look!

willssplog — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:00:39 +0000

Over the last few days I have been updating this site, it all started with some silly idea I had about playing with the iWeb XML templates. As well as a desire for a change in appearance, hence the new look

I have also renamed some pages and added some new ones, see the How2 page, I hope that its a little better laid out than the old page. This does mean that if for any reason you have bookmarked any of my pages, you might want to check them out.

One downside of all this tweaking is that once again I have managed to lose all of my comments, not that there were many. Sorry about that

It started with iCal!

willssplog — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:00:05 +0000

Having ben asked about adding an iCal calendar to an iWeb page and seeing the question on the forum I decided to set about finding ways to do it.

First of all I wrote a How2 article about this, and a spin off was a little demo site - See Calendar

During the process I realised that I needed to do something about frames, new to me but they seemed doable. This mean’t another How2 article – See iFrames

I also thought about opening html files, maybe some people dont do things because they are unsure, so guess what? Another How2 article – See Opening html files

With all of the excitement I looked at the How2 page and thought to myself, “this needs reorganising”, so thats what I did.

I hope that these articles are useful to someone!

Been away, anything happen!

willssplog — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:00:47 +0000

Hi folks,

I have been away for a while, got lots going on in the outside world so finding it difficult to get the time at the moment. Stealing time when I can, which isn’t often. I don’t have any new articles to write about, the only Mac related thing that has happened is that I have upgraded the RAM in my PowerBook from 768MB to 1.5GB. Still waiting to see a truly noticable difference, maybe iMovie/iDVD will show me more!

Also I conceived the idea of an iTunes Server, more about that later…………

Simple html forms

willssplog — Tue, 30 May 2006 17:00:54 +0000

Today I decided to add a simple html form towww.iWebUserSites.com, the result of which I published to the iWeb forum!

Then naturally I decided that I would write an article describing how I did it. I haven’t gone into lots of detail, more given references to other sites and an idea of what to do. Drop me a line if you want any help with forms and I will see what I can do.

Will

This is the question!

willssplog — Wed, 24 May 2006 17:00:51 +0000

After much playing I seem to have comments, oh no, no I dont. Wait, yes I do!

Well after much playing I hope that it is working again!

Not really sure what the criteria is so add remove comments, luck perhaps? Anyway, I now know that if you switch of comments and publish, you lose all of your previous comments!!

goDaddy Domain Forwarding Article added

willssplog — Tue, 23 May 2006 17:00:06 +0000

Click Here to see the article in action!

Many people get confused when it comes to redirecting their domain name to their .mac account. This spurred me to wirte a little article about setting up forwarding using goDaddy, who are a popular supplier of domain names.

Forwarding is something that your domain name host does, it is not something that is done from within iWeb.

Good luck redirecting!