Hi iWebUnlimited -
First of all, your site has been tremendously helpful to me. I lead creative teams all of the time, but I've never done the designing or building myself... So, it's been an experience. :-) Here are some of things I am trying to get to work on my site. (If it is helpful to see what I'm trying to do, here is my URL.) I have the site password protected until it's ready, but here's all the info: http://www.BrandExperienceStrategist.com User Id: Beta Password: Liebhard
1. Site Search - not google search (I mentioned this before)
2. Dashboard Widgets - I'd like to be able to take some of the functionality in dashboard widgets (see the topics page) and turn them into code I can use in an html snippet. I've found some information on this, but haven't been able to solve it yet
3. Dropdown Navigation (Your video was perfect. I'm just waiting till the site is more stable so I don't have to mess with the navigation with lots of publishing)
4. Interactive Rollovers - I know how to create static rollovers, but I'd like to be able to create interactive rollovers. You'll see on the home page that I have a set of 9 icons at the bottom right. For each icon I'd like the user to be able to rollover and see the appropriate interactive widget. For example, when they rollover the YouTube icon they will get the YouTube widget which gives them information on my channel and the ability to either subscribe to my channel or watch my videos. I want to set up these interactive rollovers to provide a lot of new media information in a compact format.
5. Editing Comment Font and Behavior - I found some information on a work around to change the design of the blog summaries (underline, rollover color etc.) and was able to change my blog summary design, but I haven't been able to figure out how I can change the design of the comment area. I'd like the color and the font to match the rest of the site.
6. Double URL - You may have covered this, but I haven't found an answer. When I go to my website the URL redirects to http://www.brandexperiencestrategist.com/www.BrandExperienceStrategist.com/Welcome.html. Basically, showing my site url twice in the browser window. I really think this looks unprofessional and I don't know how to get it to stop.
7. Share (within page and within podcast/videos) - I'd like to use the AddThis Toolbox so that I can have a customized list of items (email, print, twitter, facebook, delicious, etc.) at the end of each post, but I can't seem to make this work. There is no plugin for iWeb only other blogging sites and I can't tell if the tools will relate to the entire site or to the specific post the toolbox is on. Also, there seems to be a way to add this to any embedded content and I'd like to do this too since I plan on posting video interviews created with a tool like wetoku.
8. Hulu - I've added the hulu player widget and been able to customize the look and feel as well as the content within it. However, when the video starts to play only the portion of the video that is within the size of the widget shows up. Hulu says that a layer will appear above the widget with the video playing inside of it. I think maybe this has something to do with the way layers work in iWeb (you mentioned something about this in your dropdown navigation video). So I haven't been able to get it work yet.
I know this is a lot of questions, but I thought it would be easier if I listed them all here. If there are other people who have similar questions it would be great to see it on the site. Otherwise, for something unique to my site I'd be willing to pay for a video answer. Can you tell me about how long it takes to get the answer back? Thanks again for all your help!!!
Thanks Again!
Julie
