IWeb downgrade

OK, while I do appreciate the new layout control, iWeb seems like a siginificant downgrade from the old .mac homepage application for displaying photographs.
In addition to the images being smaller in screen size, they are also larger in terms of memory (png vs. jpeg decision by Apple, apparently). You can no longer click on a photo to open it, and then advance to the next with arrow keys at the bottom of the screen. Instead, you are forced to use the slideshow, which has serious problems.
Slow loading can be related to network issues, .mac server issues, etc... and I can accept that to some degree. What I cannot accept is that when you start the slideshow, and the photo doesn't load after a few seconds, the controller goes on to the next slide! So you miss photos, and if the download is VERY slow, you might run the whole slideshow and see nothing. At least with the old homepage pages, you would be able to wait before going on to the next slide.
Bottom line, is there any way of going back to homepage? I tried exporting photos (at 800x533) from iPhoto, then uploading the folder using an FTP program, but the photo order is lost.
Thanks!
Mike

Mike...
I am experiencing this too! You are right on the mark!!
I sent a prototype site I did to replace my .mac homepage (with all the same pictures)... and it is MUCH slower to load than the .mac homepage site.
And you are right about the slideshow... the images are smaller... and they are not as crisp looking as the ones in .mac homepage (I opened them up and looked at them side by side in the slideshow windows). Then when you add the dynamic that the site loads slower than the transition time built into the slideshow (which is not able to be changed)... this new slide show, though a nicer format in terms of appearance of the window and controls... is a step down from the .mac homepage slide show if you care about what your images look like (and I do).
One thing I have confirmed on multiple computers and multiple browsers... is that the first time you load the site or run the slide show.. it is really s-l-o-w. If you then go back at some time to run it again... it runs faster and the first slide does show then. Check this yourself to see if this happens on your system, too.
The bad part is that anyone who gets your link... and runs the slideshow for the first time... will miss the first slide.. and have the whole thing be really sluggish and s-l-o-w. I already had friends to whom I sent the site link call me and complain about how slow it is... and we are all on high speed broadband cable.
I sure hope this all gets corrected with updates to iWeb!!! As it is now... I can't bring myself to get rid of my .mac homepage as I had hoped to do (since I could tailor my pages more for appearance). The .mac homepage may not be as fancy... but it works a lot faster and images look a LOT better!
-- Jim

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How do I downgrade back to iWeb 08? iWeb 09 is too freaking buggy, keeps quitting on me whenever I try to open one of the pages.

Better question is what software do I need to do this?
TextEdit would do.
Here is the nitty gritty, please follow this it:
1) back up you Domain.sites2 package, heck while you are at it... back up your whole home folder; there is more important stuff in your home folder than the stupid Domain.sites2
2) control click on Domain.sites2 and select 'Show Package Contents'
3) Finder opens a new window, there you find 'index.xml.gz' , double click it to decompress it to index.xml ... you might have to repeat step 2 to get back inside Domain.sites2, then
4) open index.xml file with TextEdit
5) search for the text --> bl:version=
6) you find something like --> bl:version="92008102400"
7) change the value 92008102400 to 72007061400 so it'll be bl:version="72007061400"
8) save it (the index.xml)
9) switch back to Finder, open the edited Domain.sites2 with iweb2, the sure way is to drag-n-drop the edited Domian.sites2 on to iweb2(.app) ... it might ask you to upgrade, do so.
10) with any luck, your Domain.sites2 will open with iweb2, select one of the page in the sidebar (left side) and svae it (command-s)
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Missing pages in iWeb 3.02 (iLife'11)

Since upgrading to iLife '11 one of my web sites doesn't display in iWeb anymore. I haven't updated this particular site (one out of a bunch, all hosted by different hosts, none are .me) but a few days ago I needed to add some info the site. Upon opening only one out of 6 pages displays correctly, the others display either a blank page or the background from the previously selected page, even if it is from a different site. Additionally, it takes the only working page a few seconds to load and just before it does, for a brief moment it displays some crazy distorted images.
Also, I have to delete iWeb's pref file (com.apple.iWeb.plist) every time I start iWeb because if not the main window doesn't show.
What's going on with iWeb? I'm beginning to regret to have ever installed it. The new version doesn't seem to have any added features apart from messing up my websites.

Since the iWeb in iLife 11 is the exact same as in iLife 09, i.e. V3.0.2, downgrading would be superfluous. What's the URL of your site so we can examine it first hand?
Also try the following:
1 - close iWeb.
2 - delete the iWeb preference file, com.apple.iWeb.plist, that resides in your User/Library/Preferences folder.
3 - go to your User/Library/Caches/com.apple.iWeb folder and delete the contents.
4 - reboot.
5 - launch iWeb and see if there's any improvement.
OT

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After updating today to the latest iWeb, I created a new photo's page. All my pages have a gradient gray background.
When I click on a picture, instead of the gradient filling the whole page it only fills the area where the photo's are.
This is in both safari and firefox 3.0.1

YIKES!!! It's worse than I thought! How do I go back to the previous version of i-Web!!!!???!!!
Seriously, how do I downgrade to the previous version?
Ok, here is what I mean,
1. Go to:
http://web.me.com/pgirolam/paulgirolamomusic.com/Photos.html
Click on any photo, you'll see that the gradient feature goes all the way to the top.
This is the way it's supposed to look, and did in the previous version.
2. Now go to the new page I created with the updated software.
http://web.me.com/pgirolam/paulgirolamomusic.com/Photos_3.html
Click on one of the photo's and you'll see that the gradient fill is blocked off at the top of the photo's... This is wrong... this where I believe the newer version is broken.
3. The newer version also broke another page, a page that looked fine in the previous version:
http://web.me.com/pgirolam/paulgirolamomusic.com/BCM_Pix.html
You'll see that the gradient starts 1/2 way down the page!!!
I not only updated the web.me.com domain space, but also my webspace on go daddy and they both looked the same. I tested on two computers, iMac and a PC. Both yielded the same results. I also tested on three browsers on both iMac and PC, ie7, firefox 3.0.1 and Safari
The good news is I had a backup of the web content from the previous version of iWeb. To see the way it's supposed to look, before I upgraded iWeb, goto this link:
http://www.paulgirolamomusic.com/Photos.html
http://www.paulgirolamomusic.com/Photos_Cont.html
http://www.paulgirolamomusic.com/BCM_Photos.html
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IWEB An error occurred while publishing file "/Web/Sites/iWeb/t etc etc

An error occurred while publishing file “/Web/Sites/iWeb/testsite/workfiles/DSC04544.jpg”.
this is the message i get every bleeding time I try to update my page. anything I can do, or is it just the mac crew that have buggered up thier RUSHED update.
angry mac fan.

yes - I have just done it - I tried to publish again
and got the same error, but on a different file...
bummer - this is really fustrating
This problem has been floating for several days already. There was a previous forum 'iWeb Publishing Nightmare' which ran over 4,500 people participating in comments and sharing their problems. Many had proposed solutions ending with more frustration among MacUsers.
All I did was downgraded back to 1.0 and shall wait until a fix is at hand. Use your original installer and choose custom, then select iWeb only.
I use iWeb for my work particularly every hour ... uploading work to clients. So I can afford time wastage here. I don't use or need 'Comments' nor the extra 6 new templates. My entire site is running over 100 pages with several sites.
dreamery
http://web.mac.com/joeleong/iWeb/dreamery/home.html

Back to iWeb 1!!!!!!!

Well, iWeb 2 seems like it's snappier and easier to use, especially with the html upfront. However, after spending a whole evening splitting out one of my sites and fixing it up in iWeb 2.1 and constant freezes or crashes when publishing to folder or .mac, I am happily returning to iWeb 1.
Also, from what I hear, iWeb 2.01 has problems displaying correctly on different browsers which I never had a problem with iWeb 1. If Apple can get their act together I may switch in the future, but they sure botched this one!
The old saying goes something like this: Upgrade? DOWNGRADE! (use light then heavy voice inflection)

See Michael Wong's post, here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2342748#2342748
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I have updated my site since MobileMe kicked in, no problem. Now I'm getting this Publishing Error since I upgraded to 10.4.11:
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I'm lost here...

Deborah ~ Your Public Profile settings in this thread imply you have downgraded from Mac OS X (10.4.11) to Mac OS X (10.4.7). On a Mac, MobileMe requires the latest versions of Mac OS X 10.5 or Mac OS X 10.4.11 (use Software Update to update to the latest versions). See this _.Mac to MobileMe transition FAQ_. And if you're not on the latest version of iWeb 1.x, Software Update should offer you its latest update also.
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Will it automatically publish to MobileMe since .Mac is now gone?
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Deborah Zari wrote:
At some point I need to upgrade to '08, but I'll need to find complete, clear instructions on how to go about it.
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Deborah Zari wrote:
This is a band's website that I can't afford to lose.
See this Apple doc on How to back up MobileMe data. And besides the backup suggestions there, the free SuperDuper! can also be used to regularly create a bootable clone of your entire internal HD on an external drive:
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper
...then if your internal HD fails, you re-boot with the Option key held down. Your Mac will start into Startup Manager, where you can use the arrow keys to select a Mac OS X volume to start from, i.e. your bootable clone from SuperDuper!. Besides the advantage of not losing any valuable data, you can continue working and use Disk Utility app in Applications > Utilities to diagnose the problem.
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Cyclosaurus mentioned that my "text box elements has attribute style.visibility set to hidden" and that I might be able to correct it if I were javascript saavy, I should be able to turn visibility attribute to visible with a few lines of javascript.
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This is a cut out from my transcript I did yesterday with the guy called Daniel
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Iweb version which allows to open 2 domains at a time

which iweb version which allows to open 2 domains at a time. where to download? works with lion?

You don't have to be a programmer to be able to download one piece of sotware that will allow you to merge domain files, so that is no excuse.
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The previous thread does appear to show that you successfully downloaded this programme and understood at some level how it worked - so what has changed?
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Restoring original iWeb from iLife CD installation and the iWeb 1.1 problem

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You need the following to succesfully downgrade to 1.0.1:
1) a backup of your iWeb 1.0.1 Domain file from username/Library/Application Support/iWeb before you started using iWeb 1.1
2) the iWeb 1.0.1 upgrade package
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hard-drive/Library/Receipts/iWebApp.pkg
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Louise
Why do you seem hesitant about installing iWeb.
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Help Needed: Returning Back to Windows 8 after downgrading to Windows 7

Hi guys, im just new here.
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Clean it up and sort it out Mr Jobs!
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Your iWeb Site is stored not on your iDisk, but on a file named Domain.sites in your ~/Home/Library/Application Support/iWeb/ Folder.
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Download iWebBackup Here
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http://iWebFAQ.com

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