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Creating a blog

It’s easy to create and update a blog using the Blog template in iWeb.

To create a blog:

  1. If you have more than one website, select any page of the site you want to add the blog to by clicking it in the sidebar on the left of the iWeb window.

  2. Click the Add Page button in the toolbar at the bottom of the iWeb window.

  3. Image of Add Page button.
  4. In the template chooser, select a theme from the list on the left.

  5. Select the Blog template on the right, and then click Choose.

    An entry page appears in the iWeb window.

  6. Replace the placeholder text and graphics with your own.

    Each blog entry includes one media placeholder. Any media file you drag to this placeholder appears in the blog excerpt and in subscribers’ RSS feeds (if you keep the Subscribe button on your blog). You can delete any placeholder element by selecting it and pressing the Delete key. The entry date appears automatically. To change it, double-click it and select a new date or format.

  7. To view your blog’s summary page—which visitors see when they click the link to your blog in your site’s navigation menu—click Blog in the sidebar.

    The summary page includes the name and description of your blog and excerpts from your most recent blog entries.

  8. Select the My Blog title and the placeholder description and type your own.

  9. To change the title of your blog archive page, where visitors can go to access all of your blog entries, click Archive in the sidebar. Then select the placeholder title and type a new one.

    You can’t edit entry titles and dates from the archive page.

  10. Click the Publish Site button in the toolbar.

    Each time you update your blog, you must republish for the changes to take effect online.

  11. Image of Publish Site button.

The main blog page and the blog archive include a Subscribe button so that visitors can subscribe to an RSS feed of your blog. If you don’t want visitors to be able to subscribe from your blog page, delete the button by selecting it and pressing Delete. (They can still subscribe, however, by clicking their browser’s RSS button.)


Related Topics

About blogs

Adding or deleting a blog entry

Changing the layout of a blog or podcast summary page

Allowing visitors to subscribe to an RSS feed of your blog or podcast

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