Alternatives to iWeb ? ? ?

If you've just given MoblilMe the old FU and you'd still like to publish a homesite, are there any known good ones for Apple that are no more than $100.00 a year? Thanks.
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If you've just given MoblilMe the old FU and you'd still like to publish a homesite, are there any known good ones for Apple that are no more than $100.00 a year? Thanks.
Are you asking about a server other than MobileMe to put your website on, or an app other than iweb to make it with? There really is no necessarily connection between the two.

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  • HT4597 what will be the new alternatives for iWeb publishing,  Idisk & photo gallery ?

    what will be the new alternatives for iWeb publishing,  Idisk & photo gallery ?

    Thanks for the reply that there will be 3rd party support.
    One of the main reasons why I went from PC to Mac was because of all these cool features.
    Am dissapointed to see them leave.  ( Iweb, Photogallery, Idisk... )

  • Suggest alternatives to IWeb and GoDaddy?

    Hello - As we are all aware there are limits to IWeb and GoDaddy. I'm a Macer in a PC world (this is changing but slowly). My PC pals have a difficult time viewing my website/blog and I want to upgrade my site so my pictures can load and fonts translate to PC. I do not sell anything it's just a site for friends and family but I would like to upgrade the look, enhance the capability with PC and Google and am willing to spend a bit of cash. I've heard of Dreamscape? Does anyone have other suggestions? I do the complete ease of use of IWeb despite some of the drawbacks. Thank you. Tami
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    Hi Tamis,
    You have asked several questions in your post. I will try to answer each one. I can see from your website that you like the free form style possible with iWeb. I have to caution you that achieving maximum compatibility with all browsers, especially Internet Explorer comes with a price.
    There are a limited number of fonts that are considered web safe. A quick search in wiki will give you the list. Using any other fonts will risk problems with certain browsers. If you want to use a special font in a limited way, for example a title, convert it to an image first then place it into iWeb. The price you will pay if you over use this method is a much slower download time for your pages.
    iWeb uses a number of features such as shadows and reflections that can cause problems with certain bowsers. I have found that it is best to prep your images to the display size needed and save them as jpegs. The results are quite predictable with this approach.
    Choosing an alternative to iWeb will require a change in your approach to web design, a trade off you may not be willing to make. To get a feel for an alternative check out Rapid Weaver. I have used both and they each have their pros and cons. Rapid Weaver will force you into a template design. If you decide on Rapid Weaver there are two plugins that add some of the simplicity of iWeb, Stacks & Blocks. You probably will only need one of these.
    Here is a website created with Rapid Weaver, www.quilts4u.com
    Good luck with your website

  • Moving on...Alternative to iWeb to suit my requirements

    Hi guys,
    I was wondering whether many have escaped from iWeb since they have announced they are not supporting it anymore?
    My website today seems to have a problem displaying and think it may be related to me recently migrating to iCloud from mobileme. All I did to it last night was try and update the SEO
    Obviously needs fixing so looking to start again rather than fix it.
    Has anyone any experience with alternatives, who have actually used iWeb?
    I've done a little googling a found RapidWeaver, it seems the way forward, I've seen a lot of other photographers use SmugMug too, can anyone comment on experience of any of these or other alternatives?
    What I really want from it is some easy way of using it on my macbook and my iMac, it took too long to do this with iWeb also. I have a wireless hard drive if that helps the problem, and could I transfer my current site over or would I really have to start all over again?
    I've just realised I can access other pages but not the home one, heres what I have now so hoping to match that and hopefully improve on it somehow
    http://www.scubysnaps.com/Scubysnaps/Gallery/Gallery.html
    Thanks in advance for your help

    Sorry havent worked out a way to properly quote you on this forum so copied and pasted below
    "Just one thing - iCloud and MobileMe should not be affecting each other in any way.  iCloud does not offer web hosting, so your site is still hosted on MobileMe until next June."
    Yes I know this, I fixed the bug in my site now, so I have 6 months to make a new version still, I could just host it elsewhere (my domain name is with 123-reg so I may as well use them), but it may be a good move to upgrade at this point as iWeb will start to look updated and if Apple do not keep updating the software it may fall behind with lots of things, whereas something like Rapidweaver seems well supported and would always be upto date with new technology etc
    "Also, it is not an iWeb replacement that you should be worried about either - yes, it is correct that Apple will no longer support iWeb, but remember that iWeb is an application and if you have this application on your Mac, then you can still use it whatever - it works with both Snow Leopard and Lion."
    yes I realise that, think I've replied to this above
    "If you really want to look for alternatives, then yes, RapidWeaver is a possibility, but remember that you cannot start with a blank page, you'll need to use a template and although it might look cheap, there are lots of add ons and this can make it very expensive in the long run.  Like iWeb, it can't import either."
    What do you mean when you say "it cant import either"?
    "The other programme to look at is Sandvox and then something like Freeway Pro or Express and all these are avaialble in the Mac App Store.  If you want something more complex that can import code, then take a look at Flux.  This is available from the Mac App Store too, but you can purchase it more cheaply from the company itself.  There are online instruction videos and a pdf help document."
    Could you give me an example where I may need to import code? is this similar to adding HTML snippets to the templates? I know limited HTML but not sure what u mean
    "You can then look at the online website creation packages such ashttp://www.weebly.com or if you get a new host, the CMS's or Content Management Systems - when you purchase hosting this can be installed very easily on your server and will include such things as Joomla, Drupal and WordPress.org.  WordPress.com is the online alternative."
    Has anyone an example of a Photography site with weebly? can it be worked offline then uploaded later, if I had no internet connection?
    Thanks for your help

  • Blog like alternative for iweb for postin new material?

    I'm a little shocked I didn't think of this until now but on my website the main page is broken down into 2 columns. The main column works just like a blog where pictures are posted to stories and it's suppose to be updated almost daily. Problem is that the main page holds about 9 stories so i made a page navigation then new page to hold the older stories. Problem with this is every time I add a new story, i have to move all the old ones down one little notch. Now Im up to 3 pages and it's getting pretty tedious so i need an alternative fast.
    My first though was Wordpress. I made a page and just published the story pictures like blog posts. Its really nice because wordpress auto shifts everything for you and has its own page navigation. Then I figured I could just use an iframe and html snippet and be done.  Unfortunately If i click a link in the iframe it just changes the whole iframe to that specific page in the iframe.
    Has anyone else found a way around this. Heres the wordpress link: http://tittymungus.wordpress.com/
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    Any thoughts to save myself?

    Why do you want to sqeeze it in an iWeb page?
    Make a link to your blog and there a link back to your webpage.
    Search the interwebs for blog alternatives.
    I use blogger and thingamablog : one / iWeb demo

  • Help for an apple newbie ... Alternative to iWeb?

    Guys
    I just moved over to the 'Mac side of life' ... loving the simplicity of everything. But in for a tiny surprise. I wanted to start using iWeb for my personal site .. lo and behold - I am told that iWeb is officially discontinued. A bit of let down.
    Any other decent alternatives that any of you have tried? ... or can i still get iWeb ... not avaialble anywhere on the app store
    cheers ....

    As you now know iWeb, and iDVD, has been discontinued by Apple. This is evidenced by the fact that new Macs are shipping with iLife 11 installed but without iWeb and iDVD.
    On June 30, 2012 MobileMe will be shutdown. HOWEVER, iWeb will still continue to work but without the following:
    Features No Longer Available Once MobileMe is Discontinued:
    ◼ Password protection
    ◼ Blog and photo comments
    ◼ Blog search
    ◼ Hit counter
    ◼ MobileMe Gallery
    All of these features can be replaced with 3rd party options.
    I found that if I published my site to a folder on my hard drive and then uploaded with a 3rd party FTP client subscriptions to slideshows and the RSS feed were broken.  If I published directly from iWeb to the FPT server those two features continued to work correctly.
    There's another problem and that's with iWeb's popup slideshows.  Once the MMe servers are no longer online the popup slideshow buttons will not display their images.
    Click to view full size
    However, Roddy McKay and I have figured out a way to modify existing sites with those slideshows and iWeb itself so that those images will display as expected once MobileMe servers are gone.  How to is described in this tutorial: #26 - How to Modify iWeb So Popup Slideshows Will Work After MobileMe is Discontinued.
    In addition the iLife suite of applications offered on disc is now a discontinued product and the remaining supported iApps will only be available thru the App Store from now on.
    HOWEVER, the iLife 11 boxed version that is still available at the online Apple Store (Store button at the top of this page) and those copies still on the shelves of retailers will include iWeb and iDVD.
    This may be of some interest to you: Life After MobileMe.
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  • How can I replace just the corrupt page(s) in the domain file of iWeb using Time Machine?

    I back up with Time Machine and have an extensive elaborate website I created in iWeb '09 over a couple months and publish to a local folder and then upload to my server, but in the last few days I notice certain pages (that I haven't even worked on or touched) somehow become corrupted or "cross-contaminated" with elements and images from other pages.  Once I see they are corrupt I make sure not to publish them (if the current published versions are the correct, non-corrupt versions) or if they did get published I can use Time Machine to retrieve the .html file and page files folder for that specific page and replace it in my published folder/server so it shows correctly on the Web.  However, that does not replace the corrupted page(s) you see and work with when you launch iWeb and try to edit or continue working on that page.
    I am confused as to how I go to the package contents of the domain file and replace just that page with a previous version from time machine.  I don't want to replace the entire domain file because I have new changes I made to other pages even in the past hours.  How can I keep the good pages and just get earlier, non-corrupted versions of the corrupt page(s)? I know it's not as easy as with the published site folder where you can just replace the page's .html file and folder, but I don't want to have to re-create the corrupted page(s) from scratch or have to replace it with the last non-corrupted domain file and then have to redo all my recent changes to new pages I made before discovering the corrupt page(s).  Thanks for your help as now I can't make changes to the page(s) within iWeb itself.

    Thanks for the response, Wyodor.  I don't know what that is, but I'll have a look.  Is it an alternative to iWeb or a way to transfer pre-existing iWeb sites?  When you say merge domain files, is that like so multiple copies of the same site show up then you can pick and choose the non-corrupted pages and group them then delete the corrupted ones?  I am on Snow Leopard with no plans or need to upgrade anytime soon.
    And yes, I will read your links but just wanted to ask those questions.  Maybe they'll answer my questions, maybe not.
    I was able to discern that within the domain file is a domain folder with all the site folders, each with their own page ".gz" files which expand into ".xml" files.  I was trying to figure out if you could simply drag the corrupt pages out that way and replace them with backup copies that are still good.  I am having trouble discerning which pages are which as they all have random names like site-page-30F175E3-AE33-4F10-A490-1A096D9B185B.xml and although I expanded and opened each in Text Wrangler, I still couldn't discern which were which for sure, and trial and error proved cumbersome.  Also, I did notice some of the later corrupted domain files had one or two more pages than the site itself has, so not sure how they got added or duplicated or what.
    Again, I'll look at your links, but do you know about swapping out individual page .xml files this way within the domain file?

  • Problems with text in iWeb publishing much larger, or smaller than in iWeb (it is insane)!

    More than a year ago I had a problem with my iWeb not publishing correctly: links to other websites would not open in a separate window as designed in iWeb. I got help from an AppleCare techie and after he did a lot of tests, he concluded I had a corrupted Domain file (which became apparent after I upgraded to OS Snow Leopard).  I don't remember if I discussed with this techie another problem I had been having for as long as I had used iWeb, and that was "exploding" text: certain words, often italicized, would be huge, after publishing, relative to the surrounding text.  Sometimes certain words, or sentences would be smaller than designed in iWeb.  Through trial and error I would sort of solve these problems by enlarging text boxes, or making the offending word or phrase one text point smaller.  Sometimes deleting the text box entirely, and starting over would work.  And then there are the weird things that happen when my wife opens my website in Internet Explorer: things that make no sense and seem to be totally out of my control.
    So, I've spent a long time rebuilding my website in this supposedly uncorrupted Domain file, and today I finally finished and published to my hard drive, checked it out, and the "exploding" text is there with a vengeance.  So much so that I may just stick with my original ("corrupted") Domain file, the text problem on this new one seems even worse than the old one.  Anyone had this problem?  I meant to ask this question years ago, but got a bit lazy.
    Another question is: I've heard Apple is going to discontinue iWeb.  Despite my problems with the program, I rely on it.  What are the options going to be for iWeb users?

    Well you heard wrong didn't you!
    Apple is discontinuing MobileMe, which is the hosting in favour of iCloud services which will not contain any hosting.
    iWeb is an app and as far as we know you can still continue to use it - it will still work so carry on using it if you are happy with it.
    If you want to look at other alternatives to iWeb, then others suggest RapidWeaver and Sandvox as being closer to iWeb - both are available via the Mac App store.
    Also Freeway Express and Flux 3 are worth looking at - more design freedom and you are not restricted to templates as with RapidWeaver.

  • I am trying to edit my website which was composed in iweb. I have my website saved on my hard drive. When I open iweb, I can't seem to load the website folder into iweb for editing purposes. Anyone know a quick solution to this?

    I am trying to edit my website which, was composed on iweb about 2 years ago. I have the website stored on my hard drive. When I open iweb, I can't figure out how to load the website into iweb for editing purposes. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

    You need to migrate to a modern, supported webpage development application and leave iWeb behind.  It hasn't been supported for 2 years now and was behind the curve feature wise when it was dropped by Apple.
    One app that many have migrated to because it is very similar to iWeb in the GUI and features is Everweb.  It has a demo version that you can try.  Text and photos from you current published site can be copied and pasted into Everweb to help the migration over.
    There are other possible candidates.  Just search the iWeb forum for "iWeb alternative" or "iWeb replacement" to get a list of topics discussing them.

  • Best options for life (gulp) after iWeb...

    Hey Gang,
    Been using iWeb since its inception. I've learned to love it.
    Well- with the begining of iCloud and the transition away from MobileMe I see the writing on the wall. I realize alot of people will continue to use iWeb but I want to be proactive as I have several business websites created on my iMac.
    About 2 years ago I had a strange backup issue and lost everything. I nearly switched off of iWeb at that time but I just loved it too much.
    I want to start making the switch sooner than later as I know that Apple will eventually not support iWeb. It's only a matter of time before there is some quirk with a new OS version and it probably just won't open or whatever it may be...
    So- yesterday I spent 12 hours and tried out each of these sites: Wix, Snappages, Webs, Intuit Websites, Weebly, Yola, Google Sites, Jimdo, Roxer, Neosites, Vistaprint, Moonfruit, and Squarespace.
    They all left ALOT to be desired except Squarespace. I think it has potential.
    As an alternative, I also downloaded Adobe Muse and did not like it at all. I used Rapidweaver in the past and didn't think much of it. I see their new version is packed with tons of extra costs- no thanks!
    I'm left with Sandvox which I am going to try today.
    Here's my question: What do you folks suggest? Moving away from actual software (Sandvox)? Transitioning to web-based (Squarespace) ? I really like the drag/drop functionality of iWeb but realize I might have to make some concessions!
    A concern is working on multiple sites that reside on my comouter and constantly having to backup. I might be creating 2-3 more sites for friends so that would mean I have close to 10. Do I really want to do that and essentially become a webmaster? No so sure.
    I welcome all suggestions!
    PS- I'm not a newbie but I also have not created and uploaded via an ftp/host. I do however have domains etc...
    I'd like to do what is easiest and makes the most sense in the long run..
    D

    A few months ago I had a look around at what was available in the way of software and you can download a PDF from this page under "Alternative Website Design Software"...
    http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/Why-iWeb.html
    The main alternatives to iWeb, such as Sandvox and RapidWeaver, were not an option for me since they suffer from the same restrictions and cost a lot more. The other available drag and drop style software is either flawed or like, Freeway, antiquated and badly designed.
    The online site builders do seem to offer a good alternative but they can be just as restrictive, cost a lot more and still produce huge ammounts of code. Some claim to be free but you need to look at the real cost - especially if you have more than one site. They do offer portable versions of the site suitable for iPhone etc and this has become a necessity - at least for a business site.
    I chose to move on to a code entry style software and this has proved to be fairly easy since the one I use is WYSIWYG and I can see the changes in real time in the preview window. Its also cheaper than RapidWeaver and Sandvox and doesn't require add ons to optimize and upload the files.
    HTML5 will allow us to build better, more efficient websites but its not quite there yet. If I hadn't made the move to code entry software I think I would have been tempted to stick with iWeb for the time being and use one of the online site builders to create a separate portable version for cell phones as a stop gap.
    There has got to be a better way to create websites using drag and drop and I believe something will come along that will make apps like iWeb, Sandvox and RapidWeaver redundant. After all, why did Apple quit on iWeb?
    iWeb does offer two alternatives for publishing...
    http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/Publish-Website.html
    ... and there's any amount of hosting out there...
    http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/Website-Hosting.html
    The  MobileMe only features can be replaced with alternatives if you need them...
    http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/Comments-Password-Protect.html
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  • Switch from iWeb to WordPress?

              A week ago I asked about alternatives to iWeb for blogging on this forum.
    One suggestion received from Roddy was to consider software created by
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    I did explore this and chose to try it.
    Specifically, I paid $120 for one year's webhosting services.
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              My reaction so far is mixed for the following reasons:
    1. My current weblog, a health-related blog, consists of a welcome page,
    which is fixed, and four pages on which I place posts to diverse audiences
    every few months as appropriate to the on-going health story.
    2. In WordPress terms, these four pages are considered four separate blogs.
    3. When iWebtoWrdPrs is used on the files published to a local folder, they
    must be broken into four separate blogs. The result was that all 28 posts
    from my four pages wound up in one WrdPrs blog.
    4. To separate these back into "four groups", I chose the names of my iWeb
    pages to create four WordPress "categories", which can be displayed in the
    blog page sidebar. Then, I assigned each post to its related category.
    I consider this marginally satisfactory and certainly neither elegant, nor
    user-friendly.
    5. The navigation menu at the top of the page looks like the one iWeb
    produces, but it accommodates several fixed pages and one blog page
    with all the posts. This seems to make sense for commercial entities;
    for me it seems clumsy and rigid.
    6. To use the software one must be using iWeb3.0.x.
    7. On the plus side, the staff at RageSW have been very responsive and
    helpful.
              In the short term I will continue using iWeb; my MobileMe subscription
    runs thru next June. RageSW also offers hosting for iWeb publishing if you
    want to experiment with your own domain. There are many tutorials on
    WordPress available on-line and a good support community. Maybe I'll find
    a satisfactory way to implement my blog in WordPress down the road.

    Yes, if you have purchased both a domain name and hosting, then it is your server - so I have a domain name registered with hosting space from HostExcellence and that is my server space.
    WordPress.org can only be loaded onto a server/hosting space as it is seen as one of the Content Management Systems's similar to Joomla and Drupal.  For this you need server space and a database and most hosting companies have automatic loading of something like WordPress.org onto the sever - you just click on install and it will all be loaded onto the server for you along with the database needed.
    The difference between the WordPress.org is that as it is installed directly on your server, then it is linked directly to your own domain name so the url will be http://www.domain.com/Blog or http://www.domain.com/WordPress. The last name depends on how you choose to install it on your sever.  I have 2 blogs using WordPress.org on my server and the domain names for both are http://www.domain.com/Blog. 
    With my other host, I wanted to create the whole website using WordPress, so I installed WordPress directly onto the server, so now, when you enter my domain name direclty the whole WordPress site comes up.
    WordPress.org has more templates available for it and you can customise it a little more, but the great thing is that it is installed on your server directly, so no messing around with the url http://www.name.wordpress.com. It is on your own server rather than that of WordPress.

  • Web page for iphone in iWEB

    A good enhancement to iweb would be to have a model to make a mobile-friendly web site. Somebody knows whether this is in the plan of Apple to provide framework in iWeb to make a web page adapted for iPhone and other smartphone?

    Jacques ~ Welcome to the Support Communities. We're just users like yourself here — so we don't know what Apple's plans are. Alternatives to iWeb adapt their site content to smartphones, e.g.
    http://blog.weebly.com/2/post/2010/12/your-websites-are-now-mobile-friendly.html
    And iWeb's future is unclear:
    https://discussions.apple.com/message/15500319#15500319

  • IWeb can't find previous pages after transfer/reinstall

    I recently got a "new" (read: my husband's previous) MacBook Pro and lost some of my files/folders due to a problem during the transfer.  I had to reinstall iWeb and now it won't find the pages I had created and published previously with it.  The pages are in their own folder (SuzWebPages) as I had to manually restore them instead of letting the computer copy everything over.  When I open iWeb, it can't find the pages.  I have looked through other help topics on this and tried moving the SuzWebPages folder to the iWeb folder in Home Folder/Library/Application Support/iWeb and renaming it to a .sites2 file, but iWeb still doesn't see the folder/site/pages and opens with the choose a new page screen.  When I right-click and choose Open With on the actual pages, iWeb is grayed out.
    I went from Yosemite 10.10.1 to the same version.  I had to reinstall many programs which did not transfer or were corrupted, such as MS Word, Safari, and Mail, but all were able to find my previous files although none retained my information.
    Any suggestions?  I can provide any further information needed.
    Thanks in advance,
    Suz

    The file/package you need to have for use with iWeb is called Domain.sites2.  The folder containing your published webpages is of no use with iWeb.
    If you still have your old Mac go to your Home/Library/Applications Support folder and look for the iWeb folder. It will have the domain file you need.  Copy the iWeb folder to the same location on your new Mac and launch iWeb.
    Otherwise you'll have to rebuild your webpage from scratch.  If you have to do that I suggest you switch over to a new web development application as iWeb has been discontinued for about 2 years.
    One app that many have migrated to because it is so like iWeb in its user interface and how it works (but with many more features) is EverWeb.  There's a 30 day demo version that you can try to see if you like it.  To recreate your website with it you can copy text and photos from your existing site and paste into the EverWeb version.
    For other potential iWeb replacement apps search the iWeb forum for "iWeb alternative" or "iWeb replacement".

  • HT1338 where do i host my web pages from iweb

    since mobileme isnt no longer around. Or how do you ftp it to another web hosting company

    Here's more specific search results for you:
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  • Iweb replacement

    I've built several sites using iWeb, but Apple's move to iCloud will kill blog comments, so I'm looking elsewhere... any recommendations?
    I have to be able to build a site with multiple blogs Specifically:
    On http://www.mouzon.com, I have a blog where I archive news, a bunch of blogs where I sell our house plans (one blog for each plan type,) two blogs for our image collections, a blog that is our book store, three blogs that describe our services, and a conventional blog where I talk about the things that might be interesting to those that follow our work.
    I do similar things on originalgreen.org, newurbanguild.com, and guildfoundation.org, taking blogs to places they don't normally go.
    I did all this in iWeb, knowing almost nothing about html. Is it possible to replicate these sites with some other tool without dedicating months of my life to learning html? Or is it even possible at all?
    And is there any chance of iWeb living on in some other form, like Filemaker did with a new company, or any chance of Apple launching a pro version? Some word of this could keep me as an Apple customer and not cause me to waste tons of time migrating elsewhere.

    Apple are not getting rid of iWeb, just MobileMe publishing. 
    iWeb is an app and you can still continue to use it.  You just need to upload your site to another host such as GoDaddy or HostExcellence etc.
    You are correct that Blog comments won't work - they were MMe only, but there are alternatives, such as adding http://www.intensedebate.com as a comment system instead.
    You could always consider using WordPress as a blog instead and just linking to it from your website - this is what I have always done and I have managed to change the templates in WordPress, so they have the same colours and look of my website.
    Have a look at http://www.weebly.com too. 
    You don't need to look for an alternative to iWeb yet.  It's an app and will still work.

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