Still holding out hope for something new from Apple but, given their track record with this (what is this, the second or third website app they've killed?), I'm not sure I'm going to trust them again. (I seem to recall an add-on that allowed this, but I'm blanking out.) Again, Sandvox comes pretty close but it's still clunky compared to iWeb, IMO.īTW, how do you handle multiple site uploads, given iWeb's singular "omniscient" site window/setup? I have about a dozen sites (my main business one and a handful of mini client sites, similar to the one in my example) all under the same banner, as it were. Maybe in the next 12 months one of the current site-design guys, or a new player, will make something that captures iWeb's ease of use. Happy to hear it works under Lion, at least for the time being. Killing MobileMe hosting was pretty much the last nail in the coffin for iWeb. Was kind of hoping that was why iWeb wasn't getting updated that there was a big HTML5/online version in the works, especially when I kept reading so much about the whole iCloud thing. Apple will likely kill it, but it seems that they may offer something new, that works on the iPad or have a completely web based solution like SquareSpace. I also am looking for alternatives for myself and clients. That being said-It appears that iWeb is a dead end, but it works in Lion. ICloud will not break iWeb, just make it a little harder to configure the first time. Once configured for each website you make you can still one button publish by pushing the publish button. The one button publish works just fine, the only hard part is configuring the path to upload or "FTP" the file. I have many websites in iWeb, and have some upload to MobileMe and some to other web hosts. The only part that MAY break with the demise of MobileMe is the ease of uploading the website. IWeb will continue to work as a web design tool. I haven't played around with Freeway yet, so I guess I'll try that next. I played around with squarespace but I'm not getting what I need out of it, either. Whereas I kind of took to Sandvox right off the bat, RapidWeaver just left me flustered every time. Or maybe it is I think of iWeb as WYSIWYG, and RapidWeaver has a taste of that but I guess when I'm looking for is more drag-and-drop style editing - that is, editing of the site as it looks. I like the image masking, something I've not found in any of the recommended alternatives.Īnd a big ding against RapidWeaver it passes itself off as WYSIWYG editing, but not really. One thing I love about iWeb is that I can do some really quick and clean site setups. Then again, Apple is pretty flakey when it comes to software support so I guess I shouldn't have sunk my business eggs into this basket. Getting pissed about the loss of both MobileMe hosting and the end of development of iWeb. Yeah, I know iWeb will still work for a while but I'm jumping ship now. Just a quick rant have spent the last several days messing around with both Sandvox and RapidWeaver, as a replacement for quick website creation, to replace iWeb.
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