Comments on: iWeb and SandVox

By: Blue SeaMonster

Blue SeaMonster — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:29:31 +0000

I am a complete HTML dunce. But I have had really good experience with Freeway Others with HTML brains the size of planets, assure me that the code is really quite clean for a desktop publishing styled program.

By: Travis Cripps

Travis Cripps — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 18:26:52 +0000

Put the Google javascript in a div with an inline style defined as:

style="text-align: center; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"

By: Travis Cripps

Travis Cripps — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 18:22:01 +0000

Darn, that doesn’t appear to have worked. Tag stripping and all…

By: Travis Cripps

Travis Cripps — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 18:20:27 +0000

Bill,

As a stop-gap, you can easily center the Google ads on Friday.com by putting the Google javascript snippet in a div that is defined similarly to the content div:


    google script here.

Of course, inline styles are mostly evil, because they’re harder to keep in sync across a site, and they add to the download size of the page on every dowload, rather than being cached if it were in a separate file. Sometimes, though, they are a necessary evil.

Anyhow, there’s a workable solution if you don’t mind getting into the code a tiny bit.

By: Nathan Nutter

Nathan Nutter — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:18:20 +0000

I have been using RapidWeaver for my website, it has the same feel as iWeb and Sandvox. They are about to release a new version, but I don't know what all the new features will be. I hope they add something like pagelets. Currently, you can either do WYSIWIG or HTML but now both. If you are interested I made a theme (that requires some editing) to integrate WordPress into the RapidWeaver themes, you can view my post about it.

By: Zachery Bir

Zachery Bir — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:12:35 +0000

From the Sandvox FAQ: Can I tweak the existing designs by changing fonts, colors, etc? At this point, no. This is a feature that's on our list for a future version of Sandvox. Will there be a developer kit? Yes, probably after release. Currently there are four places that developers can plug in code: data sources (for accepting data through drag and drop), page types, pagelet types, and element types. (Elements are items common to pages and pagelets.) How can I make my own new page designs? This will require that you have skill in using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) along with an understanding of our designer's kit (coming soon) that discusses how pages and pagelets are presented.

By: Kevin LaCoste

Kevin LaCoste — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:36:35 +0000

Have you looked at RapidWeaver from RealMac? I haven’t had a chance to play with either iWeb or SandVox yet but I don’t think either of them will quite match up to what can be done with RW. At least not for a few more iterations.

http://realmacsoftware.com/

By: Gavin Eadie

Gavin Eadie — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:33:27 +0000

Having lived with WebObjects for several years, I crave an application which allows my to operate in HTML when needed, allows dragging elements of the page design for composition, and allows me to build my page up from smaller components (header, menu sidebar, etc). iWeb and Sandvox, which I agree are excellent in their class, don’t go far enough, and GoLive and Dreamweaver are too expensive for my occasional needs.