Rounded Corner Text Box in iWeb 2.0 - just like this site
As you can see on this very apple site the corners of its main boxes are rounded. In iWeb you can't make your text box rounded unless you place your text in a rounded corner shaped box. However for formatting purposes the shaped box won't expand or contract as you see your site on different browsers because it is saved as either an image.
1. If you place text directly in a shape it publishes as an image with the text not able to be highlighted or searched.
2. If you place a text box over a shape. The text will not adapt to the boundaries of the box. So if you view you site on the web it is possible for your text to go outside the boundaries of the box. This is not good.
3. I tried creating a rounded png box with transparency that I then made as the background image for a text box. The corners showed properly on iWeb but once published the rounded corners showed properly when there was no drop shadow applied to the text box. With a drop shadow the corner squared off to display some of the background corner. I know this is not the clearest -- forgive me.
4. You can add a picture frame to a text box which expands and contracts so why not simply be able to add a rounded corned picture frame to a text box.
Finally, the simple solution to me should be that the text box should be capable of being rounded. I know why iWeb doesn't do this because rounded corners are complex. I know because I've designed sites with Dreamweaver and GoLive.
I hope they add this to the iWeb in an update. You'd think they'd have a template similar to their own site which has rounded corners.
1. If you place text directly in a shape it publishes as an image with the text not able to be highlighted or searched.
2. If you place a text box over a shape. The text will not adapt to the boundaries of the box. So if you view you site on the web it is possible for your text to go outside the boundaries of the box. This is not good.
3. I tried creating a rounded png box with transparency that I then made as the background image for a text box. The corners showed properly on iWeb but once published the rounded corners showed properly when there was no drop shadow applied to the text box. With a drop shadow the corner squared off to display some of the background corner. I know this is not the clearest -- forgive me.
4. You can add a picture frame to a text box which expands and contracts so why not simply be able to add a rounded corned picture frame to a text box.
Finally, the simple solution to me should be that the text box should be capable of being rounded. I know why iWeb doesn't do this because rounded corners are complex. I know because I've designed sites with Dreamweaver and GoLive.
I hope they add this to the iWeb in an update. You'd think they'd have a template similar to their own site which has rounded corners.
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