Creating Pages

iWeb is all about creating elegant Web pages easilythe Apple way, of course. While iWeb can be used to create Web pages that are hosted on your .Mac account, with just a few clicks, it can do much more than thatmuch of which is beyond the scope of this book.

That said, publishing a pagea beautiful pageand posting it to .Mac is a two-step affair: creating a page from one of the templates, and then clicking the Publish button to copy it to .Mac. It's that simple.

We'll show you how to create a basic page and upload it to your .Mac site. If you want to know how to get the most out of iWeb, you'll need to check out a solid iLife book, such as The Macintosh iLife '06, by Jim Heid.

iWeb Site Management

While iWeb is great for creating individual Web pages, it's also very good at managing an entire site (at least one that you're likely to create at home). It automatically creates and maintains navigation links for all pages in a site.

To create a new site, choose File > New Site (or press Command-Shift-N), and then create a page for your new site. Every time you add a page to your site and publish it, the site's navigation is automatically updated.