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Use iWeb to create websites, blogs, and podcasts complete with photos, movies, and music — and get them online, fast. Just drag, drop, and design using your choice of web templates, then publish live to your .Mac account. Features include:
- Apple-designed Templates
- Easy, Flexible Website Creation
- iLife Media Browser
- Blogging
- Podcasting
- One-click .Mac Publishing
Version 2.0.4 addresses general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, and addresses a number of other minor issues.
Mac OS X 10.4.9 or later, iWeb 2.0 or later.
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| Apple iWeb User Reviews (30 posts) | Write A Review |
 | 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.
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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
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| Jan 30 2008 |
JKT 1. RapidWeaver (partially WYSIWYG, especially with third-party plug-in additions and themes). 2. Sandvox.
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| 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.
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 | 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
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| 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 |
OBCD ADAM Thanks Apple, I was think you was forgot it ! But add more features please, like flash, etc…
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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.
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| 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 :)
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| 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
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| Sep 29 2007 |
MIKE RATT Rapidweaver is not the same concept.
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| 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.
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| Sep 17 2007 |
JEFF NAILEN I can't believe I'm giving a negative rating to an Apple product, this is a first. But only to warn people not to buy iWeb/iLife until they get the bugs fixed in iWeb '08. My small business site I created in iWeb 06 is not rendering correctly in iWeb '08 2.0.1 I didn't start using '08 until the 2.0.1 fix was issued, so this is all under 2.0.1. I didn't move or rename my site, I opened it in 2.0.1 which had made a few changes to the '06 created pages. I went thru and corrected the changes, mainly font & spacing changes until it resembled the site I created and saved. In iWeb the pages look great. But when I publish the pages several font and spacing changes are made in the published pages different from the changes I corrected in converting a '06 site to '08, mainly: some fonts are converted to bold and spacing changes are made so that it is no longer WYSIWYG: the pages in iWeb still look great, the published pages look terrible and unusable. The process of publishing the pages is changing fonts and spacing so that the published pages are far different than the unpublished pages. It's no longer WYSIWYG like iWeb '06/1.x was. I've given this feedback to Apple and posted this on their support forum which is full of many similar and other complaints on iWeb '08. iWeb '06 1.1.2 was great, but this one needs much work! Unfortunately I can't recommend it unless they issue a major fix. In the meantime, RapidWeaver, Sandvox, and iWeb '06 are good alternatives.
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| Aug 24 2007 |
MOREEAZ What is really strange after I updated Iweb to version 2 and uploaden the same page, it loads a lot slower then the uploaded version with version 1.02. As proof visit www.visualantis.com/foundation is the old version with 1.02 and www.visualantis.com/foundation2 the new version. After that I did another test, to see if you turn your first page title into index, and so not create an iweb created index. As an example for that you can see www.visualantis.com/foundation3 You know the funny thing of it all is, when I had version 1 I was even able to edit my entire site in the right display in dreamweaver or golive, but after the first update this became an impossibility. What is really great and suprisingly never mentioned is that you can simple copy and paste your entire site content to illustrator and then rasterize it and make slides from there. Export this to web with HTML and then you can edit it in dreamweaver or whatever you want. You can even choose the size of each slide similar are making a site in illustrator from scratch. The iweb version: http://www.visualantis.com/maurice and the illustrator version http://www.visualantis.com/maurice.html Count the loading time for yourself, its an amazing difference. I really tried everything also html-optimizer but the loading time never went better then version 1.0X IF you want to edit your site in dreamweaver then stick with verison 1.0 for others stick with 1.02 or if you use the illustrator conversion trick then 2.02 would do the trick too. I am able to create the same page in iweb in minutes which takes me hours in Illustrator alone so there you go.... keep up the smile, mac rules the mind of the creative people....
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| Aug 24 2007 |
MOREEAZ Another thing that you should be aware of are the clipping masks created in IWEB when you paste the site into Illustrator and make slides, you will see that the slides are to big for the layout of the site, as an example check www.visualantis.com/foundation-ill.html this is the same site, but from iweb-> illustrator to the www. Note the space above the page, that is because the clipping mask of the top image is to big. If someone from here can explain me how I can make this clipping mask as small as the image that is visible, then I am the most happy guy in the world. Mr Creative
(Version 2.0.1) | |
| Aug 28 2007 |
MOREEAZ Just deleted iweb 2.01 and reinstalled iweb 1.0 Exports from there can be edited in Dreamweaver directly!!!!
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