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Although iWeb is very easy to use, i wasn't really pleased with the quality of code generated and the ease of embedding html code (hence iwebmore was born).

RapidWeaver

Most of the time I build websites by hand or use rapidweaver. Although not free, it's quite affordable and has more flexibility than iWeb.
The buildin styles are ok and have some flexibility, it's still a lot of work to make your own styles but at least easier than with iweb. My main gripe is the way text is entered and especially html snippets. The html code get's mangled by <br/> (line breaks) at every newline and the code is just placed within the text.

Sandvox

Another alternative is Sandvox. As I haven't used it I can't really say much about it, but it seems to be more limited in how and where you can place html code (although you can make raw html pages but then you have to do it all by yourself).

iWebMore usage

Very important: iWebMore doesn’t work with iWeb 2 (part of iLife’08 suite, if you bought a new Mac this year (2008) or end of last year you probably have iLife’08). iWeb 2 has something called Html Snippets, that does the same as iWebMore, only easier.

Installing iWebMore

Just download the dmg file from the download page, open it and drag the iWebMore application to the Applications folder.

Using iWebMore with iWeb publish to folder method

After adding the HTML content (described later on) and publishing the site to a folder (File -> Publish to a folder... menu) start iWebMore. Select the folder where you published the site to with the Select Publish Folder... button and if you use templates (also described later on) select the templates folder with the Select Template Folder... button. Now press the Generate... button and that’s it, the site in the published folder is now modified.



For information purposes the files scanned are displayed in the table with the number of modifications listed (if an unrecoverable error occurs the value -1 is given). Next to the Generate... button is a text window where logging occurs.

Using iWebMore with iWeb publish to .mac method

For this to work make sure iDisk is be enabled (.mac system preferences). In the finder you should see something like:
Publish the site using File -> Publish to .Mac menu, sync the iDisk by pressing the icon next to iDisk in finder. Start iWebMore and browse with Select Publish Folder... button to the folder on your iDisk the website is published to (something like Web/Sites/iWeb) and press Generate... (if you use templates select the templates directory first as described in the previous section). When iWebMore is done, press the icon again.

Adding HTML to your site

To add HTML to a page insert a box (rounded box from Shapes tool on bottom), resize and move it to the wanted position.
Now click on the box to enter text HTML text enclosed in <@: and :@> marks.
Very important: Make sure there is no whitespace before the <@: and after :@> (no spaces and returns) and that there are no font changes in the text (see right column in troubleshooting for how to prevent this)! For example:

Using templates

First make a templates folder where  to store all your templates, for example in Documents/Templates. With your favorite text editor create the template as a plain text file in this folder. Give this file a useful name like adsense.txt. In this file you can add any html you want just remember it will be included in a

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