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Adding live web content or HTML from another website

Many websites provide HTML code—also called a “snippet”—so you can post portions of their content (sometimes called widgets) to your own site. By copying these snippets and pasting them into your own site, you can add continually updating web content to your site, such as news headlines, stock quotes, photo streams, and much more.

If you’re familiar with HTML, you can also manually add HTML to your site.

To add live web content to a page:

  1. Connect to the Internet.

    This allows you, while working in iWeb, to see the live content as it will appear on your live website.

  2. Select the page you want to add the HTML snippet to by clicking it in the sidebar on the left of the iWeb window.

  3. If the Media Browser isn’t open, click the Show Media button in the toolbar at the bottom of the iWeb window, and then click the Widgets button.

  4. Image of Show Media button.
  5. Drag the HTML Snippet widget to the page.

  6. Image of HTML snippet widget.
  7. In the HTML Snippet window that appears, do one of the following:

    • Enter the HTML code that is provided on the other website (for example, Google Gadgets). You can copy this code from the other website first.

    • Type the HTML code.

  8. Click Apply.

  9. Select the widget (the item you added to your page with the HTML) and drag it where you want it to appear on the page; drag the handles to resize it.

To modify the HTML code later, click the widget to open the HTML Snippet window.

To delete the widget, select it, and then press Delete.

Important:Before posting anything to your website, make sure you own the copyright and other rights to what you or others are posting, or that you obtained all necessary permissions.


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Adding a Google map

Adding RSS feeds from other websites

Adding a YouTube video to a webpage

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