Apologies for neglect
Thursday 28 September 2006
11:53 p.m.
It’s been a long, long time since I’ve updated these pages. I explain why over at my other iWeb blog, but that’s somewhat beside the point when it comes to what’s going on here.
I must admit to a
Customisation implications of iWeb 1.1
Tuesday 16 May 2006
10:47 a.m.
As mentioned in my other iWeb blog, Apple has just released version 1.1. Six new themes/templates are included, and it also offers several improvements in functionality and performance. But it
Finally, finally
Monday 27 March 2006
8:31 a.m.
There’s always ‘one last thing’, isn’t there? When I described correcting the broken image-link on the blog summary page as the ‘final problem’, I’d overlooked the fact that the navigation bar and
Final problem resolved
Saturday 25 March 2006
1:41 a.m.
I got an email out of the blue the other day. It was from a guy called Charles Jade. He’d been playing around with customising iWeb templates and had run into the same problem as Paul de Haan and
Unlocking à la Suzanne
Saturday 18 March 2006
12:44 a.m.
OK, it’s a long time since I’ve posted anything here about customising. That’s because I’ve been forced by work pressures to take a bit of a break from digging around in iWeb’s innards. I was
This blog represents my first attempt at customising a template in iWeb, and details the process from the point where I had the basics sorted right to the final stage where everything looks just as I want it to. It took a lot of time even to get to the lift-off stage. As I mention in my first entry, none of this would have been possible without the trail-blazing work of Suzanne Boben at 11 Mystics. What I had to do was time-consuming enough. I’m not at all surprised to hear Suzanne say that she was bleary-eyed when she did what she did. And then, as if digging into iWeb’s innards for her own satisfaction were not enough, she went on to share her findings through a really excellent step-by-step documenting of the process.
Sincere thanks to Suzanne! It’s been great to get this far. As I write this on 16th February, there’s still quite a bit to do, but even now it’s all lots, lots easier to add Blog entries and have them look the way I want than it was when I described the previous laborious copy-and-paste process in my ViewPoints blog. And there’s also that fabulous feeling of satisfaction when it comes together like this. All the hard work and all the hours of XML editing really are well worth the effort.
Blog. Customised.
