November 8, 2006
More videos! These are really fun, but man they’re a lot of work. I may skip the cool music on entry and exit because that part alone can take 10x longer than simply recording the video! Hum… anyway, here’s the latest video training – an 11 minute clip about vertical navigation menus in iWeb. In this clip I illustrate how iWeb handles the different content layers, why vertical nav bars are screwed up at this point, how to use them despite being screwy and how to make them work for you.
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Thanks for the tutorial. I always wonder how to put text in the footer. Thanks for the tip. I think I will not do the vertical Nav bar for now. Tom
Hey! First I have to say how wonderful this site is and how great I think you are. Many people are not willing to share this type of knowledge and I truly appreciate you!
Now…how do I get the buttons (Navigation bar) to the right or left? I can’t grab the words (Welcome, Podcast, etc.) and move them.
Additionally, did you do your entire website in iWeb?
hey, Suzanne – thanks for the video, great tips! Just a question: what does moving the content into the nav layer mean for SEO issues? Does the page content get indexed still? Or will Google look at my site as if it were empty?
Regards,
Markus
Hum… somehow I missed those first two comments before. Cathleen, here are your answers. The navigation menu is fixed (at least for now) so you can’t move it anywhere. This may change with iWeb 2.0 that’s due here in a matter of days! :) And since you wrote your note when my previous site design was in place, the answer would be yes and no. Many of the pages were indeed iWeb pages and some were not. I use WordPress to handle the blog so I just made my WP pages look like my iWeb template. Sneaky. The new design is almost entirely WP however. Some pages were created in iWeb though.
Hi Markus – glad you liked the video! :) As far as SEO goes, no, moving your content into that layer will not create problems. The navigation layer is just another DIV in the body HTML. As far as any spider or bot is concerned any content in that DIV is readable content. The only one who would ever know the difference is you when you work with the page in iWeb. Let’s hope the upgrade makes it easier.