Viewing Moving GIF works with iWeb, but not in EverWeb
Moving GIF works with iWeb, but not in EverWeb
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User: Mark S. 11 years ago
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Brought a moving gif Apple logo into iWeb and published it. It looked and moved fine. However, moved that same gif logo into EverWeb, previewed it in Safari, and it was only a still picture. What was done wrong ? How may one make EverWeb display moving GIFs. The logo is attached to this post. TIA Last edit 11 years ago |
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User: Jumbo T. 11 years ago
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Here's the way to do it : http://trotter.is-best.net/animated/ And if that's too difficult, Roddy will sell you a widget to do it for you. |
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User: Mark S. 11 years ago
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[quote name=Jumbo T. time=10/08/2014 3:30:17]Here's the way to do it : http://trotter.is-best.net/animated/ And if that's too difficult, Roddy will sell you a widget to do it for you. Thank you. Why does the animated GIF work with iWeb but not with EverWeb ? If you your technique, which widget will work ? |
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User: Roddy 11 years ago
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Any of the image insert widgets will work such this... http://everwebcodebox.com/widgetbox/basic-widgets/image-animated-gif.html ... or these... http://everwebcodebox.com/widgetbox/image/image-insert.html ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: Mark S. 11 years ago
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Okay. Will these widgets work with the Demo app ? I have not yet purchased EverWeb. The animation set is still missing a "Buy Now" button. Any answer to this ? "Why does the animated GIF work with iWeb but not with EverWeb ?" |
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User: Don B. 11 years ago
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Things like this is where you lose me. I too wonder why GIFs work in iWeb by just dropping them on a page and they don't in EverWeb. Roddy, I admire all your knowledge and help but I have no idea what all that means and truly don't understand how to use your animated gif widget from the description on the page. No, I haven't purchased EverWeb or the widget yet. Once I get closer to having by website switched over from iWeb I'll buy it. Whether or not I'll buy some widget packs is still undecided. The one for GIFs isn't the only one I'm having difficulty understanding. |
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User: Roddy 11 years ago
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Like most things it's easier to do it than describe it. Instead of dragging an image onto the page you drag it into the Assets list. When you drag the widget onto the page, you use the "Choose" button to select the image from the list of images which pops up. The main advantage to using widgets to insert images is that they allow you also add alt text for SEO and, in some cases, a caption. WIthout the alt text, the image doesn't exist as far as the search engines are concerned. While quite a few of the widgets are only inserting a line or two of code, some of them are more complex and allow the user to create objects which would normally take a beginner hours or days to research and implement. While it does help to have a basic understanding of the code used - and where it is inserted - this is not necessary to use the widgets. For those who want to use code rather than widgets, there's a section on the EverWeb Codebox site about where and how to insert it. ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: Courtney H. 11 years ago
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The price for Roddy's widgets is more than reasonable. I've bought a complete set just to get one or two that caught my eye. Yeah, they can be a bit difficult to understand but you have to remember Roddy lives in the UK and they talk funny. It's a joke, Roddy :-) Americans think everyone talks funny, including a lot of our people. ------------------------------- MrCourtney - Honolulu, HI -------------------------------------- Mac Studio - dial monitors; iMac 27 5K - Dual Monitors - 10 TB hub Alienware: Area 51 - 24 gb - Dual Monitors - All SSD 25 TB network storage |
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User: Roddy 11 years ago
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I actually just moved back to Scotland after 20 years in California so I think people in the UK talk funny - especially the English!
------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: Courtney H. 11 years ago
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How's the surf in Scotland? Besides COLD ?
Last edit 11 years ago ------------------------------- MrCourtney - Honolulu, HI -------------------------------------- Mac Studio - dial monitors; iMac 27 5K - Dual Monitors - 10 TB hub Alienware: Area 51 - 24 gb - Dual Monitors - All SSD 25 TB network storage |
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User: Don B. 11 years ago
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Thank you for the explanation. Part of what I don't understand is the statement about the main advantage of using widgets to insert images. My images in my iWeb created websites get found by search engines quite often without me doing anything other than dragging them from a desktop folder or iPhoto on to my website page. I don't see how a widget used in EverWeb could possibly improve what currently happens with iWeb. I'm willing to learn though. Thanks. Courtney, I'm beginning to see the value of Roddy's work. While I've been using computers for decades and learned to program them in a few different languages I have no desire to learn HTML. I appreciate those who have that allow me to be more creative with my websites. As for not understanding him, I taught elementary school for 38 years and learned to read and understand all sorts of writing. |
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User: Roddy 11 years ago
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When the search engine spiders crawl a website to index the content, the only clue that they have about the content of the image is the words in the actual image file name. In HTML we have the alt text attribute which can be inserted into the <img> tag. This allows us to describe the image content for search engines and also for human visitors if the image fails to load for any reason. iWeb inserted images using the <img> tag but didn't provide us with a means to enter alt text. Rage's SEO Tool gave us this facility along with some other essentials like the page <title> and description. EverWeb inserts images as the background to a div so there is no provision for a text description. Adding a text description of an image is obviously of use to visitors to your site but it's amazing the number of webmasters who think their image will speak for itself! The search engine spiders have no means of knowing that the paragraph is associated with the image so all they have to go on is the alt text. HTML5 changes this situation by allowing us to insert images in a figure element along with a figcaption. This tells the spiders that the text in the figcaption is related to the image and they can index it accordingly. Here's an example of a widget that uses the figure element in this way… http://everwebcodebox.com/widgetbox/image/fig-caption.html … and another one with some dynamics… http://everwebcodebox.com/widgetbox/image-effects/slide-in-caption.html ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: James G. 11 years ago
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Don, I was initially confused by widget descriptions. Then I realized that the grey box on right side of description is what I would be dealing with. Drag widget to page, resize, click cog in inspector area if not open automatically, choose image from 'choose' drop down, fill in title, etc, done. As for image names and tags, they really matter for search. Imagine you are looking for sites to send people to, but all you have is a text readout of 2 sites. Would you send them to a site with image title of 'img305467009', or 'new cabela woodland camo hunting blind' with a tag of ' the newest cabela hunting blind in woodland camo with snap on gun rack'? I would think the one with title and tag would be on a site would be more helpful overall. |
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