iWeb makes nice navigation bars, but if you want to have several main sections with subsections, it’s not possible unless you start making your own navigation system for the subsections. Here’s a way to do it and keep iWeb’s fancy nav bar look.
For this example, say you have a site with four main sections. For the purposes of this discussion we will call them Site1, Site2, Site3, and Site4.
Make five sites (yes, five) in your site organizer.
Give the first site the name of your main page, “My Homepage” or whatever.
Name the other four sites Site1, Site2, Site3, Site4. Add whatever sub pages to the four sub sites you want.
In the main (top) site, make four pages. (If you want, make a fifth page - a Welcome page to introduce visitors to your site.) These four pages can be Blank template pages. Name these after your four sub sites. (Site1, Site2, etc)
***Important: In the Page tab of Inspector, change the page width on these four pages to 800 instead of 700.
Now, on each of those four blank pages, make a text box 800x800 and center it up on the page. In each one, type FRAME1, FRAME2, FRAME3, FRAME4. This is the text we will replace later.
Publish all of your sites.
Now, the post-publishing part.
Open each of the html pages in your main site (Site1.html, Site2.html, etc).
Find
FRAME1 (in Site1.html)
Replace it with
<iframe src="../Site1/index.html" width="800" height="800" scrolling="auto"></iframe>
Find
FRAME2 (in Site2.html)
Replace it with
<iframe src="../Site2/index.html" width="800" height="800" scrolling="auto"></iframe>
Etc etc for each site you created. You can have as many sub sections as you want.
Remember, if you make a change to a page like this post-publishing, and later re-publish, you have to make the html changes again! Set up a Find/Replace command in MassReplaceIt and you can do this very quickly.
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