Starting a Website - iWeb vs Wordpress?

Hi
I am new to creating a website. I have two questions
1) Does iWeb only work to create a website with a dot mac account?
- ie can the website you create on iWeb synchronise with another platform like Wordpress?
2) Can dotmac/iweb created website offer the feature of visitors to your website being able to leave comments or have an online discussion
thanks for the help
Bishan

1) Does iWeb only work to create a website with a dot mac account?
No. You can save the resulting documents on any webhost.
2) Can dotmac/iweb created website offer the feature of visitors to your website being able to leave comments or have an online discussion
From the looks of it, you can construct this as part of .Mac Groups:
http://www.apple.com/dotmac/groups.html
I've not tried this service, but someone in the .Mac forum could probably help you set it up so you can customize it that way.

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