Mac – Week 3: Comments to Melissa on iWeb problems

Screen captured image from Apple iWeb site: http://www.apple.com/ilife/iweb/#design

@Melissa Lodhi-

The AR website has been a great source of frustration this week.  While all of my information was already posted, I had major issues with formatting.  Actually, the formatting and alignment looked fine in the application, but every time I published, it went haywire.  In iWeb, the numbers and paragraphs were perfectly aligned but the published site had lines waving in and out.  First, I tried to put in additional text boxes and move them around to line up.  FAIL.  Next I tried to go back and forth between the published site and iWeb, moving things left and right to match up with where things belonged on the published site.  FAIL.  Then I went in and deleted the preference files and cache for iWeb.  FAIL.  Finally, I consulted discussion boards online and read that sometimes the text boxes themselves can be the problem.  I had to copy and paste all of my text in a Word document, reformat in Word, delete the old text box, then put in a new one and copy and paste all of the reformatted material.  SUCCESS.  Who knew the text would be the hardest media item to integrate into the site.

At this point, I think I have just about maxed out my Mac.  My machine is not the one supplied by Full Sail because I already had one before starting the program and opted out of the new purchase.  While my machine is adequate to complete the program, I am asking a little more than it is capable of.  At this point, I need to run a disk utility, or wipe it clean, or set it on fire to stop all of the bugginess but I am afraid to kill it before the end of the program.  For the remainder the program, I guess I will have to keep going through FAIL, FAIL, FAIL, SUCCESS.

My comments: 

I feel your pain too, Melissa because this happened to me months ago. I contacted FSO support first because I got my computer with our program. They gave me the contact info to talk with support at Apple for iWeb issues. After a few changes in settings, I was also publishing again without any problems including alignment. I would also suggest getting an external hard drive or at the very least backing using Time Machine and backing up everything to your iDisk. You could also back up everything on your computer to the "Cloud" through Google. That one is FREE and from what I understand, easy to use. Have not personally tried it yet, but just read a great article about that option in my MacLIFE magazine. Hope this helps and good luck!