In Apple’s well-intentioned but misguided attempt to completely insulate iWeb users from any HTML it went past the point of reason. You can’t use code, even if you want to.

Why would you want to? Google Video, YouTube, Odeo, Flickr, RSS Feeds, Del.icio.us, PayPal, blog exchanges and a host of services give us little copy and paste snippets of code that let us add features or content to our web pages. Can’t do that with iWeb, not unless you buy a copy of iWeb Enhancer. It is a necessary tool for any iWeb user who wants to enrich their website while still enjoying the ease and simplicity of iWeb.

iWeb Enhancer isn’t a plugin for iWeb. We are required to create a rounded triangle, place the code in it. Export from iWeb, then run iWeb Enhancer. It works but is far from elegant. But that’s what Apple offers and the publishers have made it as easy as possible.

If you can accept iWeb’s many other limitations and would like to join the web community at large, this is the only option available.

Acceptable

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