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DESCRIPTION
iWeb... Designing a website may seem difficult, but with iWeb, it’s easily within your reach. Create your site using themes. Customize it with photos, movies, text, and widgets. Then publish to MobileMe or any other hosting service. iWeb even notifies Facebook when your site changes and adds a link to your profile so your friends stay up to date.
WHAT'S NEW
iWeb 3.0.1: This update addresses issues when publishing to an FTP server and other minor issues.
REQUIREMENTS
- Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or PowerPC G4 (867MHz or faster) processor
- 512MB of RAM; 1GB recommended
- Mac OS X 10.5.6 or later
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| Apple iWeb User Reviews (32 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Mar 27 2009 |
RODDY MCKAY From the response of users in the iWeb forum, it seems that the long awaited bug fix doesn't really fix anything very much at all. iWeb still doesn't include the features that a lot of users have requested and the main one they added, the dysfunctional FTP, is a disaster for many. iWeb is basically a good application - it just needs to be made to work out of the box and be developed in the same way as its main competition. I find it astounding that reviewers for certain well known publications are reporting positively. It makes you wonder if they have actually used the application. Until the iWeb FTP actually works, optimization and SEO functionality are added and MobileMe is given a radical overhaul, the only option is to publish to a local folder if you want your site to be findable and viewable on a PC running IE. My main problem with this latest version of the application is its tendency to screw up text and text hyperlinks in a random fashion. The only way to fix this is to delete the offending item, save, quit, reboot, add it back and republish! Apple needs to apply some knowledgeable programmers to this application and to thoroughly test it prior to release before I would give it the rating that the "professional" reviewers have.
(Version 3.0.1) | |
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| Mar 4 2009 |
NORAA iWeb 3.0 is a much needed update, and a good update at that. While not adding a whole slew of new features, iWeb 3.0 is considerably faster than it's predecessor, in both editing sites and publishing them. In addition MobileMe Galleries created in Aperture FINALLY show up and work in iWeb (for me this is huge). While still not a perfect product (I wish I could make a web page with relative widths as opposed to fix widths - ie 90% vs. 800 px) the program is maturing very nicely.
(Version 3.0) | |
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 | Jul 22 2008 |
NORAA Still doesn't fix the problem with MobileMe Galleries created in Aperture not showing up in iWeb (Galleries created in iPhoto show up just fine). This is getting exceedingly frustrating. Maybe an Aperture update is needed.
(Version 2.0.4) | |
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 | Apr 11 2008 |
IW WARNING: Websites you create in iWeb are at the moment not compatible with Firefox 3 beta. If this is still the case when Firefox 3 is released, iWeb will be as good as useless.
(Version 2.0.3) | |
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| Jan 30 2008 |
AWRC Interesting, another iApp update with an opaque comment about "compatibility". Methinks these are 10.5.2 "pre-patches" so that when 10.5.2 is released, all the iApps continue to work smoothly. Which suggests significant enough changes to 10.5.2 that rather a lot that of stuff that hasn't been pre-tested with 10.5.2 and patched accordingly is going to crash and burn when people upgrade.
(Version 2.0.3) | |
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| Jan 30 2008 |
DANA SUTTON I've made comments like this before, but let me get this off my chest once again. On the one hand we have these dumbed-down apps that can let a newbie post pictures of the new kid to share with the folks back in Peoria. On the other we have the expensive, hard-to-learn, bloated and ever-buggy Dreamweaver. Why for the love of God can't we have something in between, a fairly simple and reasonably inexpensive full-service WYSIWG Web page creation tool. Why does no software developer get the point that here's an important ecological niche to be filled, that, if done right, could make a ton of money?
(Version 2.0.3) | |
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| Jan 30 2008 |
KNUSSEAR Kompozer - free and multi-featured
(Version 2.0.3) | |
| Jan 30 2008 |
JKT 1. RapidWeaver (partially WYSIWYG, especially with third-party plug-in additions and themes). 2. Sandvox.
(Version 2.0.3) | |
| Jan 30 2008 |
DANA SUTTON Sorry, I'm familiar with both of these and neither is what the heart yearns for. I want something where I can design pages the way I need to, and not be limited to anybody's prefab templates, that rules out RapidWeaver. Composer is admittedly better but it has the massive problem that there's no documentation for it, and I can't figure out a reasonably easy way to do certain moves I need to make, like linking to a specific anchor in a page. In Composer that seems horribly difficult although it is a pretty basic operation that page designers need to do. All in all, although Composer has been around for years, my verdict is that it is STILL not ready for prime time, evidently because it's traditionally been a pretty low-priority item for the Netscape development team. I could perhaps be convinced otherwise if somebody would produce halfway decent documentation.
(Version 2.0.3) | |
 | Jan 30 2008 |
SULEIMAN KHAN Shakespeare who once wrote that infamous line: "To be or not to be, that is the question," has done the impossible and answered your question from the grave friend. Rather than complain you need to work hard, every day, to learn how to harness the incomprehensible and sometimes surreal power of DW CS3. It may seem to you now as though DW is the bastard child you never wanted and never really cared for...Or as though you are a child in the middle of a very big, very large, and very huge swimming pool. But I say, dear child, why not take that plunge and venture down into the deep end? Perhaps you too shall quickly understand how learning how to swim can change your life. | |
| Jan 30 2008 |
DANA SUTTON I've been using Dreamweaver on a daily basis for years, it's not "the bastard child you never wanted and never really cared for." It's more like a disreputable uncle who keeps going off on disgusting binges and has to be bailed out of the drunk tank, always at my expense. Each and every time he swears he'll never do it again, but next Saturday night there he is again. I know him all too well, and I'd really like to get that s. o. b. out of my life and trade him in for another uncle with nicer habits.
(Version 2.0.3) | |
| Jan 30 2008 |
JKT Actually a mixture of the Blocks plug-in (yourhead.com) with the BlocksBox theme (http://www.jonasthemes.com/) allows you to create your own individual and completely unique looking site within Rapidweaver. There are some limitations to what you can do, but it does allow for an almost WYSIWYG website creation experience at a price point that is a lot closer to that of iWeb than it is Dreamweaver.
(Version 2.0.3) | |
| Jan 30 2008 |
KNUSSEAR Perhaps I spelled it wrong Its KompoZer, not Netscape Composer. I find the help quite complete
(Version 2.0.3) | |
| Jan 31 2008 |
SULEIMAN KHAN hmmm, an uncle with nicer habits you say? I think I may know a thing or two about where you...wait...what's this??....oh my God I can't believe it's not butter!!!!
(Version 2.0.3) | |
| Jan 30 2008 |
MAC ADAM Thanks Apple, I was think you was forgot it ! But add more features please, like flash, etcÂ…
(Version 2.0.3) | |
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| Oct 24 2007 |
TOURNESOL I guess the iWeb team has listened to costumers about the very cryptic URLs in iWeb 06, but the change they have made in iWeb 08, to compensate for that, is just to simplified. The URL of subpages made with iWeb 08 will now be called exactly the same as what you call that subpage - the name that also shows in your navigation menu. That is a very big problem, because I'm from Denmark I use the danish characters æ, ø and å in my webpage titles, and you can guess what happens when æ, ø or å is included in the URL. No Windows IE users can see that page. Ex. my daughters 1 year birthday is named '1 års fødselsdag' (1 year birthday) and when that show up in the URL as www.mypage.dk/1_års_fødselsdag.html no one except Safari users will be able to see that page. I then name the page something like '365 dage' (365 days) because then it will work and most people will know what that page is about, but it shouldn't have to to be like that. So please Apple, at least make iWeb 08 change URLs that contain less compatible characters that wont work in most peoples browsers. Otherwise I have to come up with really obscure titles for my subpages, because I can't just call them what I want to.
(Version 2.0.2) | |
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| Nov 2 2007 |
GLOBETROTTERDK Typical Anglo centric mentality. I understand your frustration, but why not use ae for æ, oe for ø and aa for å? That is the accepted way of dealing with this issue.
(Version 2.0.2) | |
| Nov 3 2007 |
TOURNESOL Because if Apple can make it work in iWeb 1.0 and then brake it in 2.0 then I'm not sattisfied. None the less, after the latest Transmit 3.6.2 update they now upload files using UTF-8 on the file names as well, so now I can use æ ø and å again thanks to my FTP client :)
(Version 2.0.2) | |
| Sep 28 2007 |
ORION MK. V RapidWeaver is so much better - more stable, flexible, manages multiple sites (iWeb can, but not without other apps), and has a solid development community. http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/13216/rapidweaver
(Version 2.0.2) | |
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| Sep 29 2007 |
MIKE RATT Rapidweaver is not the same concept.
(Version 2.0.2) | |
| Jan 30 2008 |
ONEBLESSEDGUY No, he's correct. I knew almost nothing about web page development. I was using iWeb. The "rumor" was that iWeb would allow you to publish to a non-.Mac account. This rumor was just that. This program is a very good, easy, WYSIWYG editor. I like the ease of it. However, .Mac is a HORRIBLE deal. If they would make iWeb like it was rumored to be I would most likely go back to it. Placeholders rock. However, forced to having a .Mac account (Did I mention how horrible of a deal it is?) is worse than learning css and html. I'll take my learning curve with Rapidweaver. Rapidweaver is excellent and you can do things that iWeb will never be able to do. If you do get Rapidweaver get CSSedit too. I love it for seeing how people do their sites. My 10 cents,
(Version 2.0.3) | |
| Sep 28 2007 |
it can't manage more than one website, it doesn't export more than one website, Quicktime's poster doesn't work, it supports google Adsense and nothing else? it doesn't publish on FTP, it doesn't support flash movies drag and drop, it could have blog integration with facebook but it does not. its concept looks the same of Pages, which I don't like.
(Version 2.0.2) | |
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