Browse Web Publishing Help and Tips

Browse Web Publishing Help and Tips

Integrate your iWeb site with Facebook
Here's a few tips on bringing iWeb and Facebook together.
Creating a favicon for your Web site
Go to any major Web site, and you’ll almost certainly see an icon to the left of the address in your browser. This tiny image is called a favicon (or Favorites Icon), and with a little effort, you can create one of your own.
Restore your old pictures with iPhoto
Return your scanned old photos to their former glory with a few easy adjustments in iPhoto.
Self-promotional sites with iWeb
Pulling together a self-promotional Web site can be complex. Using iWeb for the task can make your job easier.
Sharing home movies with iWeb
The My Albums templates in iWeb aren’t just for pictures––they can hold videos, too. Here’s how to use them to organize your movies in one convenient place online.
Design basics: The alignment analysis
You don't need a degree in graphic design to create great-looking documents. You just have to follow a few simple rules. Today we learn about alignment.
Design basics—the proximity principle
When it comes to designing pleasing ads, brochures, and flyers, space matters.
Bugs & Fixes: Fixes for iLife problems
Ted Landau looks at solutions to a pair of potential problems Apple has identified with the iLife suite.
Share any folder via a built-in Web server
Use a hidden built-in Web server to quickly and easily share any folder of files via a Web browser.
Managing an iWeb site from multiple Macs
You have two Macs and one iWeb site. How do you update the site from each Mac and keep the two in sync? Like so.
Making the most of InDesign’s Workspace feature
Workspace is a feature in InDesign that gets very little attention. That’s a shame because it can really improve your productivity if used effectively. James Dempsey shows you how.
Bugs & Fixes: Apple’s advice on iLife ’09 bugs
Ted Landau looks at four bug reports from Apple’s Knowledge Base that cover known issues surrounding the newly released iLife ’09 suite.
Batch rename the iLife video tutorials
Apple’s iLife ’09 video tutorials can be downloaded and saved locally. Their default filenames, though, leave much room for improvement. This hint explains how to use a simple Automator workflow to clean up the filenames.
Alternatives to MobileMe
Apple's MobileMe service is a fine way to sync your calendars and contacts, to publish Web sites, and to share photos—as long as you don't mind the $99 annual fee. If you'd rather not pay the fee, you do have other options. Joe Kissell explains what they are.
The finer points of finding free images
The Web provides small design firms and freelance designers without a $15,000 photo shoot budget the opportunity to download photos and vector illustrations as easily as the click of the mouse. James Dempsey looks at where to find images and what the cost of “free” graphics are.
Excerpt: MobileMe and iLife
An important aspect of MobileMe is the way Apple’s online service integrates with its iLife suite of digital lifestyle applications. iWeb, iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand become extra powerful when used in conjunction with a MobileMe subscription. In this excerpt from Take Control of MobileMe, Joe Kissell shows you some of the things you can do with iLife and MobileMe.
Better color management with Pantone’s ColorMunki
One of the most difficult aspects of graphic design is color management. But the ColorMunki tools from Pantone help ensure accurate color from design to output. James Dempsey takes ColorMunki design out for a test spin.
Serve local web pages via name not IP number
Learn how to serve web pages locally via name instead of IP address.
Font management with Suitcase Fusion 2
Last month, Extensis updated its single-user font management tool, and James Dempsey takes a closer look at how to use Suitcase Fusion to take the headaches out of font management.
Slim down your PDFs
When it comes to publishing PDF documents, images and fonts can bloat your files and make them harder to download. Adam Engst offers some inside tricks for keeping your PDF files as small as possible.
Brushing up your Creative Suite skills
With Adobe’s new Creative Suite 4 now available for download, James Dempsey assembles a list of some of his favorite sites for tutorials, tips, and news for the applications that make up the Design Premium suite.
Excerpt: Take Control of iWeb
Even if you include fancy graphics or podcasts on your Web site, the text is the heart of your site and is worthy of your attention. In this excerpt from Take Control of iWeb: iLife ’08 Edition, Steve Sande covers a grab bag of techniques related to working with text on your Web project.
At home in Google Earth
Chances are you already know about Google Earth: it’s the program that lets you zoom in on almost any spot on the planet, with a remarkable level of detail. But it can do a lot more than simply let you see what your house looks like from space.
Play the stock market
Your job title may be something like teacher, salesperson, or HR manager, but somehow you end up creating newsletters, brochures, presentations, and Web sites. True, you weren’t trained for these tasks, but just because you’re not a designer doesn’t mean you can’t fake it.
Get your Web site noticed
Whether you’re an expert on Pez dispensers or a budding entrepreneur, programs make it easy to create Web sites that communicate your passion. Of course, getting those Web sites noticed is another matter entirely. Luckily, there are a few free and easy ways to lead the masses to your front door.
Mac 911 - Feb. 2007
Christ Breen shows you how to manage iWeb pages from anywhere, keep an eye on kids’ computing, figure out whether .Mac or iLife is better for your pictures, and record conversations on Skype.
Design for any browser
Designing Web sites that look good in every browser can be heartbreaking work. Your carefully crafted site may look great in Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari, and then become a jumbled mess in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6. But how do you test pages in a browser that doesn’t run in OS X?
Outwit PDF annoyances
From downloadable tax forms to your company’s online medical forms, Adobe’s Portable Document Format files are everywhere. But PDF files—and the applications and utilities that generate and read them—can be confusing. I’ll shed light on some commonly confounding issues.
CSS tricks for custom bullets
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) give Web developers precise control over a page’s typography and layout. One secret weapon of CSS-based designs is the background property, which adds images and color to the background of any element on a Web page.