Is iWeb really a usable app. for Web set up???

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davidslegend

Discussion Starter · Sep 11, 2007

Hi,

I've been playing around with iWeb...I want to make a blog similiar to www.gizmodo.com but, on another theme....Well, I think it's time to learn some html or be prepared to buy another software 'cause it is kind of slow process working in iWeb. In know...I was dreaming to think it was a powerful app. but, I thought I'd just ask some others what kind of success they had & maybe some example of results they got using this "easy" kind of lazy learning curve program.

Thanks for relpying!

Cheers!

Davidslegend

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min_max9000

· #2 · Sep 12, 2007

davidslegend said:
Hi,

I've been playing around with iWeb...I want to make a blog similiar to www.gizmodo.com but, on another theme....Well, I think it's time to learn some html or be prepared to buy another software 'cause it is kind of slow process working in iWeb. In know...I was dreaming to think it was a powerful app. but, I thought I'd just ask some others what kind of success they had & maybe some example of results they got using this "easy" kind of lazy learning curve program.

Thanks for relpying!

Cheers!

Davidslegend

Give RapidWeaver a try (i think there is a demo version). It's a really nice app and easy enough to use.

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guytoronto

· #3 · Sep 12, 2007

iWeb is designed for quick and easy web publishing. Not really designed for routine blogging.

Your better bet is getting websapce, installing WordPress (or something similar), and learning that if you want to regularly blog.

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davidslegend

Discussion Starter · #4 · Sep 12, 2007

Hi Again

guytoronto said:
iWeb is designed for quick and easy web publishing. Not really designed for routine blogging.

Your better bet is getting websapce, installing WordPress (or something similar), and learning that if you want to regularly blog.

guyToronto, do you have the "webspace" (think you spelled it wrong in your post

web site link that you could pass me 'cause i did a quick search & got a lot of competting info.

Thanks to both of you for responding! I may download RapidWeaver trial but, don't see myself spending a fortune on software as I just laid out a tone of money on my new iMac 2.ghz....I love it even if it's the base model...:clap:

Best Regards,

davidslegend:clap:

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Paddy

· #5 · Sep 12, 2007

If you don't want to spend any money, there are plenty of free blogging sites. WordPress offer free blog hosting:

http://wordpress.com/features/

And there are lots of others.

https://www.blogger.com/start

List of sites here: http://mashable.com/2007/08/06/free-blog-hosts/

As for iWeb - having used Dreamweaver and GoLive, along with hand-coding for sites that have anywhere from 10 pages to hundreds over the past 6 years, I can only say iWeb was pretty frustrating for me!! It's file structure alone was enough to drive me mad. Anyway, it isn't a pro app and is really just for throwing up a few pages here and there and having them look very nice without a lot of fiddling, and no knowledge of HTML.

Another free option for web design software is NVu, which is the slightly more advanced version of Netscape Composer. Still pretty basic and easy to use, but at least you can hand-edit the code. It can't do anything particularly fancy though, and if all you need is a blog you're probably better off with one of the free blog sites.

If you do actually want your own web site, hosting can be had for as little as just over $3/mo USD (GoDaddy's basic plan, if you pay in advance for 2 years, even less if you pay in advance for 3 years) https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/hosting/shared.asp?ci=9009 You'll need to register a domain name too - again, I'd recommend GoDaddy for that. Very good registrar and also one of the cheapest if not the cheapest. For slightly more money, and tons of storage and bandwidth, LunarPages is great. Very good customer support also. It's $6.95/mo for 12 months. I've had clients with sites at both hosts and have had no issues. Lunarpages does offer one "free" domain name registration with the hosting plan - I generally don't recommend that people go this route however, as it can get problematic if you decide to move your hosting elsewhere. Suddenly your registration isn't free anymore and it's usually at least twice or three times what GoDaddy charges. Of course, you can always move your registration too, but that's more work.

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spicyapple

· #6 · Sep 12, 2007

Each time a small change is made to a single page in iWeb, it will republish the entire site. Unless someone has a workaround... XX)

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CubaMark

· #7 · Sep 12, 2007

SpicyApple, that was supposed to be fixed in the last pre-iWeb '08 version, though in practice it was hit or miss. Updates *should* only result in an upload to the changed page. If, of course, you are exporting to a file and doing a manual upload, it still exports the entire site. This is one area where RapidWeaver has it beat - you can export only the updates.

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VictorDTarsus

· #8 · Sep 12, 2007

Thats why I bought Podcast Maker because iWeb took so freaking long to republish a nasty big site man! besides, i'm a designer by trade, so I am well versed in the hectic world of web coding and do all of my stuff by hand or based on free templates from opendesign.org

Besides, I was getting sick of those blog things anyway and decided to kick it up a notch with Pod Casting.

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hhk

· #9 · Sep 13, 2007

spicyapple said:
Each time a small change is made to a single page in iWeb, it will republish the entire site. Unless someone has a workaround... XX)

Is that still the case for iLife '08? I would have thought that would be the first thing they fixed.

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dalethompson

· #10 · Oct 4, 2007

I've tried both iWeb (1.0 and 2.0 versions) and Rapidweaver (3.6 version) and I must say that Rapidweaver has iWeb 2.0 beat hands down.

I did up my wedding website in iWeb and it was pretty easy to put together. iWeb is great for dropping and dragging around things but you're very limited to making a lot of changes esthetically to the website (from the templates).

Rapidweaver gives you many, many, many different options in which to incorporate into your website. The blog features alone are pretty impressive, let alone some of the other things you can throw into some pages too.

I love Apple and most of the i-series software but with iWeb, Apple really dropped the ball in not making it more powerful and slick. It's still a great app to have but they've clearly fallen behind Rapidweaver in this case. Not to mention the fact iWeb 2.0 has been a complete P.R. disaster with people upgrading their sites and then losing them.

I guess an option for Apple is to buy out realmacsoftware (the creators of Rapidweaver)... Steve Jobs has pretty deep pockets, I think he can afford it.

www.realmacsoftware.com

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