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A tutorial on how to build and publish a basic website in iWeb.
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hey everyone today I'm going to be
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showing you how you can build your very
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own website using Apple's application
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called iweb which comes in the iif suite
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and is bundled on all new Macs so to
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find iweb all you're going to have to do
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is open a new finder window and navigate
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into your applications folder and find
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iweb and open that up just double click
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it and I along
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launch once it launches you're going to
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find this large window here and from
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here you can do a variety of different
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things so what we're going to do is
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we're going to create a new website so
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all you have to do is go up to the file
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menu and click new
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site this list will drop down and you'll
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have a lot of different options as far
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as different themes you want so for this
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one we're just going to choose a modern
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theme here and click cck on the welcome
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page cuz that's the kind of page we'll
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want to start with then you'll just
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click choose and it's going to create a
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new site for you and this is the
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template site it gives you so this while
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this picture is nice you probably don't
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want it for your picture on your own
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website so you can drag pretty much any
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image in that you might have in a folder
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or on your desktop all you have to do is
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drag it and drop it right on top of the
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picture and it'll replace so for an
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example here I just have my desktop
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wallpaper and I can drag it in and and
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instantly that is a replaced the
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previous picture that was there and then
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I can use this slider here to decide
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which part of the image I would like to
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show now I can also edit the titles on
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here all I have to do is click on the
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title and then click again and it'll
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highlight the text in it and I can start
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typing so I can
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type welcome and maybe I just want to
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leave it at that little exclamation
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point so you can do that and then the
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same thing for these big larger text
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boxes I can just click on them once to
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select them and then click on them again
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to highlight it and then replace the
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text with what I
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want so right there welcome now I can
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also add another text box by going into
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my two our at the bottom here and
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clicking text box and you'll see a new
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text box pop up in the middle of the
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screen I can type in there whatever I
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want to type and then I can also move
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that text box wherever I would like to
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on the screen
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I can add a shape by clicking on the
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shapes bar at the bottom and you'll see
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all these different shapes I can add I
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can add a triangle here and I can move
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that around and I can even resize it by
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dragging one of these handles on the
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corner here and making it bigger or
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smaller so that's kind of neat and let's
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say I want to add a secondary page to my
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website all I have to do is go to my
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bottom toolbar here and click add page
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and this next bar will come down or this
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uh menu and you can choose another type
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of page so I'll choose about me and then
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click choose and instantly I'll have
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another page so of course once again I
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can replace the images on here with
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whatever I want and I can replace the
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selected text with whatever I want want
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to
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say so let's say I have a great video I
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want to put on my website I can also do
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that too by using the same drag and drop
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method I did with photos so I have to do
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is drag in a video and drop it wherever
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I want it to go in this case in place of
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the picture and right here it'll give me
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a warning if the file is very big in
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this case it says it's 187 megabytes
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which is quite large and it might cause
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long download times so I can click okay
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and right in this place where the
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picture was or wherever you choose to
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put it is your video and you can play
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any video on in there so let's say a
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home movie or or something like that you
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can put in
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there and you can see at the top here
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every time you add a new page it puts a
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link to that page up here so I can click
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on about me when I'm on my website and
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I'll instantly go to that page so you
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don't have to worry about linking pages
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together or anything like that it does
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it all for you so once you have your
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page organized exactly the way you'd
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like it with text boxes and images and
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videos and things like that and you want
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to publish your site you have a couple
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different publishing options all you
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have to do is click on the name of your
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site up here in this case it's just name
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site and you have your publishing
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options so I can rename my site here and
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I'll call it uh my great
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site and you can put a contact email in
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and if you have a mobile me account you
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can publish your site right to your
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mobile me account which is pretty nice
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and if you don't have a mobile me
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account you can publish it to an FTP
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server or a local folder right on your
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hard drive and with mobile me you can
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also make your publish site private if
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you don't want other people to be able
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to view it so once you're once you feel
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that you're ready to publish your site
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all you need to do is go and select your
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type and I'll choose local folder for
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this
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one and I'm just going to choose my
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location in this case my
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desktop click choose and it's going to
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put it there you can put in a website
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URL name and I'll just leave that blank
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for now and then down in the bottom
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toolbar here you're just going to click
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publish
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and it's going to give you a warning
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that you're making sure that you own all
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the files and copyrights of everything
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that you have on your website you can
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click continue and it's just going to
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create your site and it'll take some
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time depending on the length of your
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site how much is in it and how detailed
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it
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is so once it's done publishing it'll
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say your site has been published and I
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can click okay or I can visit my site
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right now so I'm just going to choose
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visit site now and it's just a folder on
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my desktop but it'll still visit it and
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it'll show me exactly how the site is so
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it opens up Safari and I can use my site
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just like I would in real life so here's
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my welcome page that I set up before and
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then I can click on about me here and
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it'll load the about me page that I had
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set up
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before so here's the about me page and I
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have my video and my pictures and
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everything else you know that I would
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like to have on it so that's pretty much
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the basics of creating a a website in
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iweb and it's pretty easy there's not a
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lot required to it to make a nice really
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professional and great looking site that
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um you know your friends family can
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enjoy stuff like that so I hope you
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found this tutorial useful and thank you
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for watching
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