“It is very important that any potential buyers know exactly what iWeb is. It is an application for creating personal websites. Now, this personal website can easily include pictures, slide shows of pictures, movies, podcast and of course, any documentation you feel like publishing. Furthermore, if you have a .Mac subscription, you will be able to get much more out of this software than if you don’t subscribe. It is heavily tied into Apple’s online service. So, if you already have a .Mac subscription then this application should be much more appealing to you. If you don’t, then you need to seriously examine whether or not this applications limited feature set is worth the money,” James R. Stoup writes for Apple Matters. “IWeb is NOT a general purpose website creation application. Do not make the mistake of thinking it is a scaled down version of Dreamweaver, as it most definitely is not. This application is designed to publish personal websites either to .Mac or to a folder to be used via another hosting service.”
Stoup writes, “This new application is ideal for anyone who meets the following criteria:
• has little to no experience designing webpages
• doesn’t mind spending $100 a year for a .Mac subscription
• won’t mind giving up lots of creative control in exchange for the ability to easily and rapidly create a slick looking site”
“If you fall into this category (and a lot of users will) then iWeb might be for you. I must admit, it does look very good. And it is remarkably easy to operate. You can open this program for the first time (and assuming you already have all of your picture. music and movies ready to go plus you already have .Mac) and in 30 minutes or less have a brand new website. This is one of the simplest Apple programs I have ever used,” Stoup writes.
Full article here.
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Apple announces iLife ’06 with new versions of iPhoto, iMovie HD, iDVD, GarageBand and new iWeb – January 10, 2006
I own my domain and have all my traffic directed to web.mac.com and it was created using iWeb
how hard is this to have your own domain? can you recommend a reference book?
This is the first time using iWeb and want to publish the site (live)
JustClick:
Thank You for the info & I do have a .mac account, I am just confused about naming the site, because on homepage in .mac your address is your own address, can I name the site what I want on iWeb http://homepage.mac.com/mephisto4/Menu1.html
http://dukemeiser.spymac.com/
I made this site in one day using iWeb. Definitely the easiest Apple application I’ve ever used.
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viral marketing? it says “Made on a Mac” at the bottom of the page. Did you do that?
I love iWeb – I’ve been building Web sites professionally for 7 years so I understand good code, etc. But hey, for posting a few pictures of the kids at night, iWeb is ALL I need. iWeb was worth half the cost of iLife 06 by itself.
Mike,
Definitely a great example of what the program can do…
And it looks like you publisehed to a non-.mac account and STILL have a nice slide show…
any other tidbits you can add?
Thanks!
Hey Mike why does that guy look like a serial killer in the “hammers are fun” photo?
http://dukemeiser.spymac.com/Spymac/Gift Ideas.html
Okay there Distant Thunder… You sound pumped!
I think we get it, iWeb is for Noobs.
How about posting a couple of links to websites you have “coded” so we can check out your handiwork.
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Rapidweaver is a much more mature program and it’s website has a forum for sharing information. It’s membership has posted some very clever workarounds, tips & tricks.
RW templates can be edited and themes abound.
When iWeb reaches version 3.0 status, as is RW, I’m sure it will be just as polished. In the meantime RW will continue to thrive.
MDN MW: lack
It’s definitely a 1.0 piece of software. It crashes more than any Apple app I’ve ever used, but not enough to make it unusable. I just save a lot. Yes, I removed Flip4Mac out of my system. iWeb is still a work in progress.
Has not crashed on me yet
AppleGuy
I was out yesterday looking at iLife ’06 on aa G5 Quad at the Apple Store. iWeb looks pretty cool for the average user, but I’m really more exicted about GarageBand, iMovie, and iPhoto
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My copy of iLife arrived Friday. I loved all the abilities iWeb has until….until… I tried to save my masterpiece site master page as a template.
No SAVE?
I can save the whole gol-durn site, but I have to start over to modify each and every PAGE to get the look I want? I can’t even copy and paste my great design into a new page? Some elements can’t be deleted from pages – so you can’t just paste in a copy of your brilliant design? Whaaaat were they THINKING?
Lame!
Brain-dead!
I could find work-arounds for a lot of other things, but not for that.
Inexcusable!
Primitive…
Un-Mac-like!
Grrr…. so now I’m checking out a combination of Rapid Weaver and Style Master 4 (for editing RW’s CSS). Looks like it gives me a lot more control…but the templates don’t look as nice as iWeb’s starting package.
Sigh.
Damian:
If you have your own domain and it has Web space, the save your iWeb creation to a folder as suggested by JustClick. Then FTP (File Transfer Protocol) the contents of that folder to the top level folder of your Web server account directory (at least that is how it works for my web hosting). Check with your hosting company for details. Also, your homepage usually must be named “index.htm” or “index.html”, again check with your hosting company.
Many other web creation programs include FTP capability – I don’t have iWeb so I can’t comment.
I use a standalone FTP program. Currently I use CyberDuck (it’s free). Transmit (shareware) is also good. They both work on the concept of a directory structure on your local computer and on the remote computer, and copying back and forth much like you would between different disk volumes.
Good luck!
My website, if you are interested:
http://www.bkpfd.org
Made with a mish-mash of tools, including hand code, saving MS Word as HTML, and JAlbum. No iWeb (yet!)
I’m a pro web/print designer and love iWeb for quick photo galleries and communications for clients. There’s no fiddling needed, just select pics, jot some notes, and click a button, then on to other things.
iWeb makes very Apple-ish, personal looking webpages. Rapidweaver makes them more business-like, with relatively good design. iWeb is way more WYSIWYG than Rapid Weaver, you just move text and elements around on the page totally free, very much like in Pages.
With Rapidweaver you can make a better menu system. It can place the links to the pages at your site horizontally on top, as iWeb does, but also vertically at each side of the page, and with submenus.
Hey,
All y’all complainers about not being able to copy a page to use as a template….
Try Edit > Select All
Copy
(make a new page – deelte the contents)
Paste.
Voila!
— ndb
I got my .Mac subscription for $69 from Amazon with free shipping. So it actually costs less to buy a box with a serial number in it and have it shipped (which was also free) than it was for me to renew through Apple. Apple should drop the price of .Mac or add some more features anyway, but until then I’ll keep renewing from Amazon or at the student rate.
Distant Thunder, you rock dude!!
Can I be your friend?
Please?
nakeddevilbaby –
Hmm – have you tried selecting all, copying and pasting? In my copy, you can’t delete everything and then paste over it. It’s stuck there, like glue. Weird.