August 20, 2007
Sage owners will be happy – Aerolite Sage for iWeb 2.0 was just uploaded. If you purchased Aerolite Collection or Aerolite Sage, please log in to your store account to find and download the installation files.
Duplicating these is incredibly mind-numbing so please browse these pages carefully and see if I missed little things. For the page with white backgrounds, I have to monkey with the quote color because inevitably the accent color, i.e. sage, doesn’t work on the grey backgrounds of the quote boxes. Red worked okay and so did Aqua, but Ice and Sage were too close to the grey color so I used white instead.
I’ll do orange now. Then I think Aerolite is complete and we’ll move on to Zones and the others.
I’ve had tons of people requesting AquaPRO so that theme will come sooner than later. I’ll try to get beta versions of everything done this week so hold tight :)
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Aerolite Red for iWeb 2.0 BETA Released
Aerolite Orange for iWeb 2.0 BETA Released
Ok. Now I’m happy.
Like you were unhappy before ;-) Aren’t you just happier?
Excellent! Since we last spoke, I’ve bitten the bullet and upgraded, so I’ll have to download this when I get home. I spent some time over the weekend rebuilding my site with one of the new themes (although I forgot to replace a couple of picture in my rush to get it done!), so I’ll try switching themes and see what happens (after I fix the pix)!
Thanks for all of your continued hard work!
-Ron
http://www.randomdoorways.com
Hey Ron, I’m going to visit Greece next April! I’m looking forward to that trip.
Good luck with the theme swapping. It’s not a perfect solution, but it’s pretty good. As long as you haven’t changed the hyperlink colors or other accent colors, the theme should swap nicely.
Suzanne –
I know this is probably a dumb question, but I have been keeping up with your updates and need some clarification…
Since you now have this thing well in hand, give me a direction and a suggestion.
1. Should I download the new templates and rebuild from scratch in 2.0, or
2. Can I Install 2.0 and use any part of the existing site, while patching in the new templates as I go ?
Your determination to get this up and running has amazed me since the new version – you go girl!!!
Kudos – and THANKS!
John
Hi John – no it’s a good question. Here’s why…
The XML code changed from 1.0 to 2.0. It didn’t change drastically, but it changed none the less. I would personall rebuild all my pages in a clean 2.0 theme to ensure your pages are using the 2.0 code. God knows what kinds of tiny issues could appear otherwise. I could be entirely supersticious there, or it might make sense.
You could import your site, yes. The word is you’re suposed to be able to do that and continue editing, publishing and building without issue, but I don’t know if that’s true. The Apple iWeb forums are the best place to inquire about that.
Either way, things *should* work, but I have my money on rebuilding the site, particularly if you were using a third-party theme for your site. Apple converted their themes, but I highly doubt they made concessions for the rest of us ;-)
Suzanne –
Just installed 2.0 and your new Sage templates. They are quite a bit different than the 1.0 versions.
I know you are working nite & day to get all your templates up and running, but do you have any plans to go back and *tweek* the design elements of new templates to match the old ones? – or add additional page layouts that have all the options of the old version?
Thanks,
John
Hi John, yeah I keep writing about this and I’m not sure how to better broadcast this without putting a blinking banner on the home page, but iWeb 2.0 does not allow for custom layouts anymore. Apple changed the code (purposely we don’t know ;-) in such a way that prevents us from doing it. My hands are tied. The best we can do is duplicate an Apple theme and use their layouts.
If anyone has ideas for how I can make this message obvious let me know cuz I know people can’t read days of commentary. But I don’t want to keep explaining this either LOL :)
Oh I know what I’m going to do – I’m going to put this in my iWeb 2.0 FAQ and start blinking that link all over the place. Then I’ll just expect everyone to keep tabs on that FAQ. I’ll enter all my knowledge there and that will be our central “truth be told” repository.
If you have a good question for that FAQ, please send it to me :)
Suzanne,
OK, now I get it!!!
Sorry, I am a bit slow. But, guess what I just tried…
Well, I had burned a copy of my 1.0 domain file to a CD and brought it home to experiment with in 2.0…
I dragged it to the desktop, and opened it with 2.0 – converted it and the whole mess… Well of course no navigation bar (and maybe a few other things, I’m still experimenting) – but I copied all the graphic items from your 1.0 version of my home page (www.ppoh.com) and pasted them to your NEW 2.0 Aerolite Sage Black Blank page.
VOILA, there is my Navigation Bar along with the all the graphic bits and pieces!! So far it looks like the perfect solution.
Am I heading down a bad road? Is code or something else gonna catch up to me in the end?
I really have no interest at this point of switching themes. I LOVE what I have – your 1.0 Aerolite Sage.
So, unless otherwise advised, looks like I might just paste everything onto a 2.0 Blank and rename to match existing pages…
Ideas? Comments? Advice?
Thanks
John
John, I checked out your site linked above. Is this the 2.0 published version? If so, it looks like you’ve gotten everything ported nicely. Like you, I had to make the decision on whether to build from the ground up or copy and paste. I opted for starting from scratch, using the new Aerolite Sage as my base, and then copied and pasted some objects from the old version. I did this by running both iWeb 2.0 AND 1.x at the same time. This allowed for easier copying and pasting.
If you’d like, you can see what I’ve done at http://www.myseason5.com.
Hey, I have a question for you, I like the form on your contact page. What did you use for that? An online form builder and then insert the code? Could you point me in the right direction? And what did it cost you?
Wow John, you discovered something I was not aware of. In fact I’m not even sure I read that right. How did you get the navigation menu to appear correctly simply by pasting the graphics from your old site? You must have some magic up your sleeve – I don’t understand how that worked :)
Well here’s my thoughts on that… I would run with it, but test things out on the pages. I really don’t know all the potential issues with imported pages so we’ll just have to experiment and figure things out.
Daniel suggests a great approach if you kept your 1.0 version of iWeb. You just copy and paste things from your old site into the new one with both versions of iWeb open.
I still think the best thing to do is rebuild the site with the 2.0 pages, but that’s just because I’m a purist in a way, particularly when it comes to code. This is also the reason I rebuild my PC operating systems every three months (!!!) I’ve since dropped that neurotic habit after switching to Mac ;-)
Suzanne, I know this is a lil off topic, so please excuse me (and delete if necessary). I was wondering if you knew how to add forms to iWeb, similar to the one I mentioned above. I have a real need for this.
One other thing. Something I just noticed… I tried visiting my published site from a different computer and its asking me for an iDisk password. Very odd. My site is NOT pw protected. I double checked to make sure AND I republished the site. Arrrggg.
Would you take a look to see if it gives you the same message? Im working alone today, or else I would have a co-worker check it out.
The best resource I’ve found for adding forms to iWeb is Allyson’s guide to iWeb forms. She’s Varkgirl from the Apple iWeb forums.
Your site is giving me the We’re Sorry .mac page at the moment. Can’t find it.