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kman42 · Jan 14, 2006, 07:15 PM

I just installed iWeb and have a question. With homepage you could create a menu page, for photo pages for instances. Is this possible with iWeb? I don't see a menu page or a blank page. I tried using the blog entry to do it, but the viewer has to click on the blog entry and go to that page and then click on another link from the entry page to get to the photo page. I just want a menu page for all of my photo albums. Any ideas?

kman

viruscool · Jan 14, 2006, 08:44 PM

So what your saying is that in iWeb you can't have a page with links to several different photo albums?
If thats so then thats a bit of a bugger as thats what I was hoping to do with it.

Anyone else confirm this?

kcmac · Jan 14, 2006, 08:50 PM

I've seen a few sites made with iWeb. On the homepage is usually a list of things on your site. About Me, Photos, Movies, Blogs, etc. When you click on the Photos title it takes you to page with Photos. On the sites I was on, it seemed that if I clicked on pictures the person had set up, those were the links for photo albums.

Maybe you aren't using the templates. Can't help more than that. Mine gets here next Tuesday.

kman42 · Jan 15, 2006, 02:21 AM

I figured it out. You can insert another Welcome page (or any other page) and then delete everything. Then you can just add sample photos with links to your albums or you can add text or whatever. It would have been more intuitive if they had included a Blank page template as well.

It's really quite flexible once you realize how it all works.

kman

kman42 · Jan 15, 2006, 02:42 AM

Ah, one more question. Is there a way to mask an image with a shape other than a rectangle?

kman

kcmac · 03:23 AM

Pages has an icon in the toolbar called objects where shapes are found. Does iWeb have anything like this?

I think I saw an icon called Shapes in the bottom toolbar on the iWeb tour on Apples site.

viruscool · Jan 15, 2006, 07:58 AM

Hmmm, so I could have a page with a preview picture for each album, then once clicked it takes me to a page with all the photo's on from that album in?

kman42 · Jan 15, 2006, 10:06 AM

Originally Posted by viruscool

Hmmm, so I could have a page with a preview picture for each album, then once clicked it takes me to a page with all the photo's on from that album in?

Yeah, it works great. You just start with one of the provided templates, delete what you don't need and then start adding thumbnails. You can then make each thumbnail into a link to the appropriate photo album.

This seems like a common thing to do so it wouldn't surprise me if the next version has a Photo Menu page that automatically makes a thumbnail menu for each photo album page that is placed under it, similar to how the Blog page makes an index on the main blog page for each entry page.

kman

kman42 · Jan 15, 2006, 10:06 AM

Originally Posted by kcmac

Pages has an icon in the toolbar called objects where shapes are found. Does iWeb have anything like this?

I think I saw an icon called Shapes in the bottom toolbar on the iWeb tour on Apples site.

There is a shapes button, but I can't figure out how to make a shape into a mask.

kman

chris v · Jan 15, 2006, 10:30 AM

Originally Posted by kman42

Ah, one more question. Is there a way to mask an image with a shape other than a rectangle?

kman

Do it in Photoshop -- build your image on a layer, then delete the area around the shape you want, so the background is transparent, then save it as a .png file.