IWeb versus WordPress for blogging

Just seeking advice - I need to create professional blog which points to my registered URL (eg registered on GoDaddy - eg. www.robenzo.com/blog).
I am Ok with iWeb - but I find it rather clunky for everyday blogging. I don't want to have to migrate from one site to another in the future.
Anyone out there with experience with both iWeb 09 and Wordpress? Would you recommend simply starting with WordPress and not iWeb? Ultimately, I want my own URL not, the WordPress one. So just want to know which was to go.
Thanks

Robenzo ~ I've experimented with both iWeb's blog and WordPress's and I would recommend WordPress rather than iWeb. To use your own URL (Domain), see this doc:
http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/
If you'd prefer something simpler than WordPress, there is this new, free web-based service which also allows domain names:
http://www.posterous.com/faq

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IWeb versus Wordpress

I've read a lot of the posts here about the demise of iWeb support/upgrades, but I want some opinions: I am looking at starting a blog, and am an Apple loyalist, and like iWeb. I have my own domain, and have set up a Wordpress account, and am using Wordpress's servers, but have not yet begun using Wordpress to create the blog. If you were starting a blog now, would you just give up on iWeb and use Wordpress alone? Is iWeb at the moment robust enough to be usable for the next 3-4 years? Is there anything iWeb can do that I will miss by letting it go and using Wordpress?
Thanks in advance for the feedback.

If I were you I would stick with WordPress - I have designed numerous websites using iWeb, but have never used the iWeb blog, simply because I think other blogging systems are better.
I have always used WordPress as a blog and have just created a link to my WordPress blog from my website. However, as I have external hosting, I have WordPress.org loaded onto my server so my blog has become http://www.domain.com/Blog. WordPress is more customisable like this when loaded onto your server and I have designed my WordPress blogs to look the same as my websites with the same colour schemes etc.
Probably best to stick with WordPress and not use the iWeb blog - you can do more with WordPress than you ever could with iWeb - embedded blogs in iWeb never look good, so I would not do this personally.

How to publish from iWeb to Wordpress

I want to take the advantage of those beautiful design sofware to create an amazing blog for my wordpress account. But I run into problem of not know how to do it and I do not want to live in the restriction of wordpress has for me on the web design.

There's no know method to conver an iWeb blog, design wise, to a wordpress blog. Rage software, however, has offered an application that can export the entries and comments of a current iWeb blog for use in an wordpress blog. Convert Your iWeb Blog to a WordPress Blog | iWeb to WordPress for Mac OS X But the design and layout must be created by wordpress.
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How do I move my blog posts from iWeb to Wordpress?

I want to move all my blog posts from iWeb to Wordpress. Is that possible and how?

Depending on how many posts you have, it may be best to copy and paste them into Wordpress. I don't know for sure, but I dought if there is any process that will do that automatically for you. I would have your iWeb blog (edit Mode) window open and then Create a new blog in Wordpress. Copy the iWeb title/paste into Wordpress - Copy the iWeb blog text/paste into Wordpress. It should go fast once you get the first one done because you'll do the same for all. Hope that helps.

Use iWeb '09 with Google Blog or Wordpress

it's possible to use iWeb '09 with Google Blog or Wordpress?
If it's possible, how?
I'm still new to iWeb and blogging...
Hope someone can help me with this...

Blogging with Wordpress is covered here....
http://iwebfaq.org/site/iWeb_Blogging.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
RageSW called iWeb to WordPress.
I did explore this and chose to try it.
Specifically, I paid $120 for one year's webhosting services.
This included provision of a domain and installation of WordPress
at my new website.
          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.

Email notification for blog updates

Are you kidding me? Wordpress, and everyone else offers email notification for blog updates. But iWeb doesn't? There is no widget we can use or anything? Just the RSS subscribe button provided? I even tried going through Feedburner, but that doesn't help. You would think iWeb would offer what is pretty commonplace these days. Help?

The iWeb blog is not very good or user friendly - you need to have access to a Mac and iWeb to update it.
I don't use it myself, preferring to create my own blog in WordPress. On my old website I used to display my blog as an iframe on my site, but now that I have updated my site, I just create a link to it from my site and it opens in a new frame.
I find it a lot easier than using the iWeb blog - you can update online and I would not consider using iWeb blog until they improve it in updates to come.

Recommendations for blogging software

I want to start a few blogs. I was thinking about using WordPress with a full range of the features(not the free one).
BlueHost is the most popular host for WP, but turns out it doesn't support Mac.
Are there other webhosts that do support Mac ?
What are the alternatives for blogging, both free and not free ?

Is it worth it? Good question. If you use iWeb for blogging and want comments integrated .Mac is the easiest solution. At the end, you need to decide, if you want that kind of money, if cheaper options are available. .Mac is nice and fancy, but also has some restrictions.
Wordpress on the other hand is for free, installation on a server very easy or even preinstalled. Wordpress is the tool of choice for a lot of professional bloggers and it has a great reputation. If you are serious about blogging, this might be a very good option, or going with Rapidweaver as you can also blog to a 3rd part webserver.
I run my main [blog|http://blog.jurgen-photo.com] currently on Wordpress and experiment with iWeb on my [customer website|http://www.jurgen-photo.com].

Iweb created, wordpress embedded.

Hello,
My ideal situation would be to create a website in iweb, have a domain, host and website with Wordpress (software) pages, and transfer or embed my iweb website to wordpress(.org). Is this possible?
I'm not talking about blogs (I know Wordpress is for blogs), I'm talking about website pages, layout and creation.
Obviously I'm trying to use the best part of both iweb and wordpress. iweb is extremely easy to use to create websites (especially coming from DVD Studio/Motion) and I love Wordpress' free plugins, navigation and setup.
If what I'm asking is not possible, what would be a similar solution? Dreamweaver and Wordpress? iWeb straight to the server (and alternate Wordpress-type plugins)? Another program?
I'm trying to create a few websites, but when it comes to designing I enjoy the free range of experimenting visually with text, color, layouts, etc that iweb and Dreamweaver offers over trial and error of html, css, and php.
THANK YOU in advance!

I am not sure if you can do this and it all depends how much you are able to alter the WordPress html code or insert code into WordPress?
Are you using WordPress.com or .org? .org is more customisable than the .com version, but if you were to try and embed an iWeb site into WordPress, it would mean adding iFrame code to the html and I am not so sure that WordPress will allow you to do this in the same way that iWeb will - with iWeb it is simple - you just enter the iFrame code into an html widget and away you go.
If you know how to alter the code and add it in WordPress then great, but if not, I would do it the other way around and embed your WordPress blog into an iWeb site - by far the simpler option.

How does iWeb track files for incremental updates to .mac

In short, my question is where does iWeb keep track of which pages have been published to .mac so it can make perform an incremental update?
My father is in Alaska using iWeb 1.1.1 to maintain a blog and photo gallery that, when published to .mac, has grown to just over 100MB. His connection speeds vary from port to port, but are typically around 128k and cut out after a bit of use. The challenge now is that iWeb is trying to upload the entire site which is failing every time due to the internet connection.
While visiting him, I saved an identical domain.site file to my computer that I would like to publish using my high speed connection. Following this, my goal is to convince his version of iWeb that it has been updated without having to transfer the entire domain.site file and this is the part where I could use some help.
So far I have published my copy of the site. I have then tried emailing him copies of the files: index.xml.gz, assets.site.plist, ServerCachedResources.plist, sharedassets.plist, and com.apple.iweb.plist which I accessed using the show package contents on the domain.site file. He has transfered these to domain file however it still wants to upload the entire site. Are there any other ideas on where iWeb tracks pages for incremental updates?
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URL for reporting BUGS in iWeb. URL for reporting a WISH LIST for next iWeb

1
Can someone please send the URL for the page in which one can report bugs in iWeb?
2
Same thing for simple old Wishes and Hopes for the next iWeb if they are not one and the same URL/page.
Thank you.
Lorna in Southern California

Lorna....
All is well....actually doing a little jet-setting
over here and there...you can check the updates on my
website....thanks for your email...
Regarding the feedback to Apple....if you ever forget
the website, you can always look under the iWeb menu
while you are working (that's when you run into these
bugs anyways) and pick "Send Feedback to Apple".
That'll send you to the same webpage for feedback
submission!
Hi James I'm glad that you are ok. And thank you for the hint about the bug reports on iWeb menu. It makes a lot of sense putting it there; I just never noticed it.
iWeb has a bad blog bug
I'd like to stomp it royally
Instead I'll send a feedback hug
(She said, behaving loyally.)
All is said and all is done
Let's get the Raid bomb just for fun.

System requirements for blog comments?

Friends are having trouble adding comments to my blog. Are there system requirements for veiwing and adding blog comments? Are PC also compatible with iWeb?

Thanks for the quick reply. I do have a mac account and I am publishing to .mac. The URL also has a W
Some friends are able to post to by blog but others are not. So far it seem if a friend is using a Mac and has the latest Safari version then there is no problem but if someone is using a old version then they can not view or post comments.
Is anyone else having that issue?
Thanks for your help.

I've had an iWeb site running for 4 months and I publish a monthly newsletter. Since August I've been unable to republish. The test connection under FTP settings works but I get an error message when I try to upload newsletter. Am I missing something mis

I've had an iWeb site running for 4 months and I publish a monthly newsletter. Since August I've been unable to republish. The test connection under FTP settings works but I get an error message when I try to upload newsletter. Am I missing something?

Where are you hosting the site a what are you using to upload the site files to the server?
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Jsp tag for blog attribute in a flex asset

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HT204053 I had Snow Leopard and was using iWeb and Filezilla for my website (not MobileMe). Wanting to move to single-click publishing, I now find it is not supported by iCloud and Mountain Lion. I feel cheated, having bought it mainly for this purpose!

I had Snow Leopard and was using iWeb and Filezilla for my website (not MobileMe). Wanting to move to single-click publishing (supported by MobileMe), I now find it is not supported by iCloud and Mountain Lion. I feel cheated, having bought it mainly for this purpose! The other thing they don't tell you is that Mountain Lion disables OfficeMac, and I am considering uninstalling it for that reason - do I get my money back?!

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That is not true.
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