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Amongst WYSIWYG web site creators Rapidweaver, Sandvox and even Freeway 4 are regarded as more proficient than Apple's humble iWeb. This is mainly because of their ability to incorporate external code to add flexibility, and the fact that iWeb 1 made sites that responded very poorly to search engine spiders, etc. (and with no explicit provision for adding keywords and other meta-tags).

As is well known, with the release of iWeb 2.0, Apple added some scope for external HTML snippets and some Google AdSense integration. However, there have been some other useful changes. With an app like BBEdit, you can take the HTML output of an iWeb 2 site (published to a local folder) and run the Multi-File Search Find & Replace function on the whole folder to instantly add new HTML, such as your Google analytics code. Therefore with a simple Find on , you can replace it with...
<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
_uacct = "**-*******-*";
urchinTracker();
</script>
</body>
...on all pages at once. I run three such Find & Replace routines to add a range of meta-tags, change a couple of page titles, and to add the code above. Then you upload these changed pages with your favorite FTP program.

I am no HTML expert (by any means at all), but I now have the graphical flexibility of iWeb's undoubted WYSIWYG excellence, but with a quick way to force it to be more grown-up about its search-engine compatibility. And I am sure someone with better skills than me could do lot more. Should you wish to examine the source code of a working example then check out this site and view the source -- there you can see the insertions I've made via global search-and-replace.
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iWeb Buddy
Authored by: jchawk on Dec 21, '07 08:54:55AM
There is also iWeb Buddy which is currently in beta. It performs this analytics insertion as well as Mint and quite a few others.

Worth a look at http://www.zarrastudios.com/ZDS/iWebBuddy.html.

JCH

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iWeb Buddy
Authored by: willbank on Dec 22, '07 01:36:03AM

Now that takes even more pain away! Marvellous. Just what I was looking for.

Now, does anyone know how to speed up the rendering of the iWeb code as it isn't just a speed-of-the-host issue (although I am very happy with Siteground, hoho19).


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Make iWeb sites more sophisticated
Authored by: hoho19 on Dec 21, '07 10:14:28AM
iWeb is pretty easy to modify if you have HTML/PHP/JavaScript skills. You can check out my wife's site for selling baby blankets http://test.daughtersofeveblankets.com. This was done by generating the pages in iWeb and then savings them as .php pages and adding my php. I also added 1 javascript page include to each page so that my js is accessible everywhere.

This is currently running off my home machine so it may load slow over my connection. iWeb is heavy on graphics. Does anybody have any good recommendations for web hosting?

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The Search string is missing from the post!
Authored by: willbank on Jan 22, '08 11:09:50AM

I just noticed that in the edit my post seems to have lost the following:

search on <body> and replace with....

Just in case anyone is confused (like the man who emailed me!)

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The Search string is missing from the post!
Authored by: kkingston on May 28, '09 11:08:32PM
iWebSEO Tool and iTweak helped me with this site...

www.edcwellnessforlife.com

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