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Widgets!

HTML codes and Javascripts are terrific tools to help you build interesting content for your web site. For example, you can add trailing cursors, music, falling objects such as snow or image rollovers, calendars, scrolling texts, navigation menus, flash graphics and much more. Thousands of free scripts are available to you in the Internet for use on your Web pages. There is no longer need to edit script code by hand: iWeb Valet includes a selection (and other will come) of those scripts that are compatible to iWeb and a powerful function to easily add them to your iWeb pages.

• Step 1: Choose and customize your widget

In iWeb Valet, from the Widget list, select the one you want to show in your web page(s). On the right pane, you will find the widget description, along with the customizable options for it. If the widget is animated, you may click on the first button

of the Widget list to display a preview of the animation.

• Step 2: Put the widget placeholder on your iWeb pages

Either click on the second button

of the Widget list to copy to the clipboard the placeholder of your widget, or click on the third button

to use the easy widgets palette.

Then, in iWeb, go to the page where you want to place your widget and paste the copied placeholder (or drag and drop the placeholder from the widgets palette) in the location where you want your widget to appear. A new text box containing the placeholder will be created. At this point, save and publish your site to a folder.

• Step 3: Start customization

That's all! Now you can apply your customizations as described in the previous "How to Use" help section, and then upload your site.

Some suggestion

- Don't apply any format, picture frame, shadow, reflection, etc. to the placeholder's text box in iWeb, but use only the format options available in the widget pane in iWeb Valet. Take note that iWeb generally renders modified texts out as images in the html pages: this hampers iWeb Valet to find the placeholder!

- If the browser of your visitors doesn't support JavaScript or they have it disabled, the widgets will not work.

- Not all widgets will work with all iWeb themes or in the various platforms, browsers, etc: I apologize for this, you must test every widget by yourself.

Credits

All included Javascript code is offered as a free "public service" resource by The Javascript Source (http://javascript.internet.com) and by other free JS resource sites. Simply stated, all the scripts on those sites are free for personal or business use. The only requirement for use of archives is that you leave the credit information inside the script.

iWeb Valet - Widgets

21/07/09

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