Stefans Blog

iWebTranslation version 1.5

2009-10-19T12:04:00.000-07:00

I have received mails from people having problems running iWebTranslator on SnowLeopard. I've spent some time to fix the issue (it's annoying: cocoa- java bridge is not supported by apple anymore ?).
Because i don't have the time to investigate the issue further i removed the reference to cocoa and used a java method instead. The result is a working cmd-line version and no gui version anymore :-(.

iWebTranslator new version available

2007-09-29T00:02:00.000-07:00

There is a new version of iWebTranslator available:

Improvements:
You can now define a custom charset-mapping. This is useful if you have
a charset not directly supported by the default mapping. eg. cyrillic or danish characters.
There is also a graphical interface available (iWebTranslatorGUI).

Website:
I have created a website for iWebTranslator. The website is not yet finished but should be already useable at the moment. http://public.schönbächler.com/iWebTranslator

Feel free to post your experiences with this new versions.

iWebTranslator version 1.1

2007-08-24T09:54:00.001-07:00

There is a new relase (v.1.1) of iWebTranslator.

This version fixes a bug in url-encoding with space character.
Thanks to HOgi for testing.

The Application can be downloaded at: Still HERE

iWeb and umlaut characters

2007-08-16T12:03:00.000-07:00

My partner created a web-site with iWeb 2.0 for our son.
Because we don't need the .Mac features we decided to publish the website to a shared-hosting provider.
Unfortunately the provider has a FTP-Filename restriction: there are only alpha-numeric filenames (and '-','_') allowed. iWeb however creates file and folder names with german umlaut, exclamation marks and other unwanted characters.
I have decided to write a little command line utility wich translates the whole iWeb-Site to match the provider
constraints.
After a few hours of code-writing the tool has the following features:

Rename files and directory to match the alpha-numeric rules.

Replace the old filenames in the content of files with type *.html, *.js, *.xml with the new filenames (e.g links, javascript)

Gather MD5 checksum and modified-date for every file. This information is stored in a file named iWebTranslator.config in
the parent directory.

Backup modifed-date for every file with the same MD5-checksum as before ( this is useful for a FTP-transfer
to only transfer modified dates).

Example:

iWeb Site Name: TestSite
iWeb Publish Folder: /PATH/TO/Sites

Steps to Publish Site:

Delete the folder /PATH/TO/Sites/TestSite if it already exists.
Publish Site to Folder /PATH/TO/Sites within iWeb.
Run iWebTranslator via Terminal: java -jar iWebTranslator.jar /PATH/TO/Sites/TestSite
Upload Folder via FTP (e.g. via Transmit Synchronization/Mirror method).

The Application can be downloaded at: Download HERE