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RapidWeaver 5 Beginner's Guide

By : Joe Workman
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RapidWeaver 5 Beginner's Guide

By: Joe Workman

Overview of this book

<p>RapidWeaver allows users with any level of expertise to build beautiful and professional looking websites. The novice user will love the drag and drop, what you see is what you get interface. The advanced users will love that they can get down and dirty with some code when they need to. <br /> <br /> This book covers all aspects of developing a website with RapidWeaver. Whether you want a family website to display photos from your latest vacation or a small business that is looking to increase your web presence, this book has got you covered. If you have a Mac and want a website, you need this book. <br /> <br /> This book dives into all the components required to build a website with RapidWeaver. The first half of this book builds upon itself and shows you all of the basic building blocks that you will need to develop great websites. It starts off with a basic tour of RapidWeaver and gets you building your first webpage in the first chapter. The book progresses onto how to customize the look and feel of your website with themes and adding simple webpages with text and images all the way to blogs and photo galleries.</p> <p>The second half of the book dives into more advanced topics that can really help you take your websites to the next level. This includes e-commerce, blogs, managing web content outside of RapidWeaver, Search Engine Optimization and even a little programming. By the end of this book, you will have a solid foundation that will allow you to build powerful websites.&nbsp;</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
RapidWeaver 5 Beginner’s Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

iFrame


iFrames allow you to display content from another, possibly external, web page within the content area of your current page. For example, you could use it to display an external support forum into your RapidWeaver web pages. Think of it as a tricky way to make the contents from one page look like it’s on another.

Note

You know all those fancy Twitter, Facebook, and other social buttons that we have seen all over the Web? Well, most of those are iFrames! The button is actually hosted on Twitter, Facebook, and so on.

The entire configuration for the iFrame page is done inside the Page Inspector. You will have to click on the Page settings tab at the top right-hand side of the Page Inspector.

Configuring your iFrame is very simple. Enter in the URL that you want to reference into the URL field. Remember to include http:// or https:// in the URL. Then input the Width and Height settings for the exact size that you want the frame to be. The height and width can be expressed in either exact...