Apple iWeb - Manual (Page 5)

Preface Welcome to iWeb 5
About iWeb
iWeb is the easiest way to create and publish great-looking websites. You see what
each webpage will look like as you work on it—you don’t have to know anything about
programming or web-authoring languages such as HTML.
iWeb Highlights
 Apple-designed templates. The collection of templates that comes with iWeb
provides an elegant starting point for any website. Templates have been specially
designed for photo pages, blogs, and more. Each template comes with coordinated
layouts, background images, and other formatting already set. Use the templates as
they are or customize them.
 Worry-free navigation. As you add, remove, and rearrange webpages, iWeb
automatically updates the navigation menu (the website’s clickable table of contents)
for you.
 Easy blogs. iWeb provides special templates for creating blogs (a blog is a web
journal; see “What Is a Blog?” on page 16) that make it easy to set one up. iWeb also
provides a Subscribe button so that your visitors can be automatically notified
whenever you update your blog.
 Podcasts. Create your own radio or TV show. You can export audio podcasts you
create in GarageBand and video podcasts you create in iMovie directly to iWeb. You
can also easily submit your podcast to the online iTunes Music Store.
 Easy-to-incorporate website features. iWeb provides ready-to-use elements such as
a visitor counter, an Email Me button, buttons for subscribing to blogs and podcasts,
and more.
 iLife integration. Easily add photos and other graphics, movies, and music to your
websites. Export photos or a whole album from iPhoto directly to iWeb. Add a link to
subscribe to a photocast. Create a movie webpage with a single click in iMovie.
 One-click publishing. When you’re ready to share your website on the web, just click
a button, and your site is stored on .Mac, visible to anyone who knows the web
address (URL). (To publish to .Mac, you need at least a free trial .Mac membership.) If
you prefer, you can easily make the website accessible only to people who know the
user name and password, or who belong to a particular .Mac group. You can also
publish your site to a folder on your computer so that you can upload it to the server
of your choice.