Apple today released iWeb 2.0.2 which addresses issues with upgrading iWeb 1.x websites, and fixes some common publishing problems, and supports general compatibility issues.
Note: In order to install this update you will need to download the iLife Support 8.1 update first. The iLife update supports system software components used by all iLife application, improves overall stability, addresses a number of other minor issues and supports general compatibility issues.
iWeb 2.0.2 is available via Software Update and also as a standalone installer.
More info and download link (17MB) here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “GmanMac” for the heads up.]
Just did this download and updated.
Went wonderful.
I’m now geekette!
Thx Apple and MDN
my website’s snappier
This is a retarded program. Apple should just kill it.
I second hmmm. I’d love a serious robust iWeb, but this is web for weenies, with some snazzy reflections to make you feel good about your work.
yes it is for weenies, but great for average Joe to make a family web site, for anything else, it is totally SE unfriendly
Is there a commercial CMS web program for the Mac (easy to use)
I would love for Apple to make a CMS , Iweb Pro??
But it ain’t for you pros.
It’s for me – the guy who put up a really nice website that everybody likes – and it was FUN!
You guys can go HTML yourself. I love iWeb.
heh
@farting Macs
You are so right, its not for Pro’s, but is a fantastic program for people who never believed they could do a web site, a good friend that I switched was blown away that with a .mac account he could take his vacation pictures, drop them into a photo template, add a description, and baboom, had a web site.
I use iWeb and was wondering what web design software I should use thats a little bit more advanced but easy to use (im not into html etc).
Any ideas?
@farting Macs
Absolutely! I DO know HTML, Photoshop, and website design, but it wasn’t until I got iWeb that I finally managed to put up a family website. I have work stuff to do at work (shocking, I know) and, at home, I probably only have about 15 minutes a day to devote to something like this. iWeb has allowed me to share photos and videos with my family spread out around the world, and I don’t have to take hours to maintain the damn site.
@ Petey
Try Freeway Express. It’s the next step in website design software.
iWeb 2 is not as nasty as iWeb 1 was. They’ve just made it harder for me to use it to create text images in Fancy Fonts – which was my primary use for the program in the first place.
While Freeway Express starts at $89, RapidWeaver starts at $49 and does most of the same things … and it has an active community of third-party plug-in developers. And then there’s Sandvox, which was nearly caught in iWeb’s introduction … better than iWeb, as good as RapidWeaver?
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My site was completely made in iWeb 2. I read xhtml and css books and I understand that you can currently create much more powerful sites and flexible if you do it in your own html and css coding but I believe the future of website creation lies gui based editors so I’m an early adopter. If Apple creates iWeb Pro thats probably what I’ll switch to. Besides I have more important things to learn and code like C and Ajax. iWeb is’nt just for those chessey familly sites, if you spend time creating graphics and background textures you can create a professional site in iWeb.
http://www.youcomprehend.com/
iWeb is cool for .Mac and personal websites were you don’t need the advanced features of GoLive or Dream Weaver.
And it beats the crap, snot, and piss out of Front Page for usability and creating Standard HTML code in the pages.
@ Mac4lfe from iPhone.
Had alook at Freewat Express and it looks pretty good.
I might take the leap and go for pro version because you can see a sight map in that version.
I wish Apple would create iWeb Pro. iWeb just isnt flexible enough for me to create my own site, but this is one I did for a friend: treewinds-tales.com
How SEO friendly is Freeway Express? and are there problems with IE6,7 ??
I used iWeb to make my 1st sight, but had to do a lot of ‘Dumbing down” for it to load on IE properly, also it was awful with Google, ended up paying a guy to recode alot of stuff to make it Google friendly. I want to redo, and like the looks of Freeway, but does anyone know how it is for SEO??
http://www.stthomasexcursions.com/
I am building this site for another project in iWeb, and not worried about Google, as this will be announced to our target group via email. It appears that iWeb 2 works a lot better with IE
http://web.mac.com/hotinplaya/MakNuk_1/Welcome_.html
@hotinplaya
To be “Google Friendly” you just stick with fonts in the Web folder of Font Book. Most of the other fonts outside the Web folder iWeb will have to convert to a .png image because web browsers only support about a handful of fonts. Google and all the other search engines can’t see these converted text images thus it thinks its an image. There are a few fonts outside the web folder that most browsers can load like Helvetica. I only use these fonts which get converted in website titles and such but non in the main text such as a blog post.
I have to also say that iWeb is not just for the home user. Small businesses like myself need a way to update our websites easily ourselves. I’m an architect, and I post up to date pictures of construction and new designs on the books. I also spend some time making my own template and navigation system. iWeb has been a huge blessing for me. Check it out if you like.
http://www.schismdesign.com
RapidWeave is similar to Apples iWeb;
I guess it is also retarded too.
There are people out there that DON’T want to code.
Personally I don’t… I use FreeWay Pro & iWeb & RapidWeave & GoLive. All for different reasons. Just as there were diferent reasons to use Freehand over Illustrator.
Dude… don’t stun your growth.
Freeway is the most definately the WAY to go.
Pro or not. It’s a FAB-TASTIC-AL app.
Dig deeper into Freeway Pro… well worth it every paso.
Generates excellent code; such that even your professional web programmer friend WILL envy! Since it is built by professional webists that coded into easy to use scripts for the program.
Another app that is flexible is GOLDFISH, but needs to be updated. IT is by no means a pro level app… just very EASY not stuck to templates – those at first you will think you are stuck.
Want to change just one word on one site?
got lots of large files video or audio?
got multi-sites?
Well yer gonna have to publish everything on all your site!!??
Everytime!
How frickin stupid?? Comon Apple give us just a little
Pro verison…PLEASE!!