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
www.curioustidbits.com is my blog.

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

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A fix to personal web domain name problem between iWeb and GoDaddy

There are numerous posts about problems with iWeb understanding both your personal name domain with and without the www.prefix. After five days, 25 calls to both Apple and GoDaddy where I was getting much conflicting advice even within each organization, and I experienced many problems such as the site not being found and iWeb asking for password authorization whenever anyone visited the site. The good news is that I was finally able to resolve the problem with these simple steps:
First, check that your Web site actually exists by going to http://web.mac.com/yourusername
If that works then you need to set up a forward in GoDaddy.
In GoDaddy's account manager, make sure that the forwarding address is set to http://web.mac.com/yourusername. This must be the same address that you just checked through your browser. (I also advise you to NOT USE the .ME designation that Apple is moving to. It's not solid yet. .MAC will work for a long time. It's web.mac.com/ that will work).
Then click on the Total DNS Control and MX Records link.
This is where my instructions that work differ from many other instructions, but heed my advice and you'll save a lot of time.
Look in the CNAMES area and make sure that the www host alias points to "@" and not to anything else such as "web.me.com" or "www.mac.com". If you don't have such an entry, then create one by clicking on the "add a new CNAME Record"button. Caution - if you don't use the "@" (at sign) here you WILL run into trouble where your custom domain name will only work WITHOUT a "www." prefix. (While this may not be a problem for your mac friends, most everyone using a PC will think they need to type in a "WWW." and that will cause a problem).
Then if you wish, you can also go back into your domain forwarding area and click on the masking tab and click to enable masking. This will make your url only show the short personal domain name rather than the very long iWeb mobile me URL appended with your personal domain name.
Confirm your entry, and then wait anywhere from 20 minutes to four hours or more for the tens of thousands of servers around the world to repopulate those instructions. I was able to see a change take place in minutes where my associate in another state didn't see the change for two hours. Don't worry, just wait.
If you do this, you should be able to then go to your Web site through either www.YourPersonalDomainName.com or YourPersonalDomainName.com
Good luck!

I was finally able to resolve the problem with these simple steps:
Many people would not be interested in using url forwarding/masking as you suggest to solve this issue, since that makes it impossible to bookmark individual pages of your site. For those who do wish to set the www CNAME to web.mac.com, I think the problem can normally be solved by also setting the @ A Record to 17.250.248.34.

Iweb and godaddy hosting

So I just purchased iweb and plan to create a website for when i travel to South Africa. Problem is I declined to sign up for .mac because I really only need it for 4 months and don't want to pay $99.
Godaddy.com seems to have some better prices but is there anyone here who can walk me through what I'd need to do to post my iweb creations to such a service? I need an ftp program right? Which should I use and how do I use it? Any help is appreciated!
Thanks,
Will

here here... I second that. I have had godaddy a long time, even while I had .mac. I got iWeb last night, and whipped up a couple images from MY trip to South Africa over the last two weeks!! interesting coincidence. take a look at what I did.
www.jrog.com
I used the blog system to link in multiple photo albums, as I don't see myself creating much in the way of blogs in the conventional sense, but it is handy to be able to create a new image gallery.
Godaddy gave me free hosting, but I ended up paying for the basic service, some $36 a year for 5GB of storage and 250G of monthly data transfer. Pretty insane if you ask me.
I told the salesman at the apple store last night that I would go back to .Mac the moment they allow for personal domain name compatability. Even Google's gmail allows you to setup an alternate domain name, and send emails as that domain user.
Justin

IWeb and GoDaddy combo question:

I built a web site (with pictures and videos) on iWeb '09. I'm using GoDaddy for ftp hosting. All the Login info is correct according to GoDaddy ie; login name, password, server address, user name. iWeb won't accept the password as valid. I've changed it on GoDaddy a couple times to reset and try again on iWeb. No luck. Any answers?

Try the following:
1 - delete the iWeb preference file, com.apple.iWeb.plist, that resides in your
User/Home/Library/ Preferences folder.
2 - delete iWeb's cache file, Cache.db, that is located in your
User/Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.iWeb folder (Snow Leopard and Earlier).
3 - launch iWeb and try again.
NOTE: In Lion and Mountain Lion the Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and hit the Enter button - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.
Another option is to publish your site to a folder on your hard drive and use a 3rd party FTP client like Cyberduck, Transmit or YummyLite to upload the files to the server. You might try one of those clients to see if it will take your user name and password. With them you'll get a Finder like window of your account folder on the server.
OT

Create and manage multiple web sites using iWeb and GoDaddy

Now that Mobile Me is going away and the other comments in this discussion relate to iwebsites were written several years ago, I am looking for new and up-to-date information.
I have been building and maintaining a website using my MobileMe account and porting it over to GoDaddy.
I need to re-write the site if for no other reason than it is getting cluttered and needs freshining.
I would also like to create some other seperate web sites with their own URL
1) Is iWeb capable of doing this?
2) All the information I have found on iWebsites is at least 3 years old and there does not seem to be updates to that software.
3) Are there other tools that will allow me to do this?
And finally, does the group have any words of wisdom for me.
Thanks Dunc

It is now generally acknowledged that 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.
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.
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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.
It now appears that 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 the page) and those still on the shelves of retailers will include iWeb and iDVD. Those two apps were listed in small, gray text on the iLife 11 box that I bought.
Personally, if I didn't already have a copy I would purchase one to have it for reinstallation purposes if ever needed.
This might be of some interest to you at this time: Life After MobileMe.
If you're running or planning on running Lion the following will be of some interest to you:
In Lion the Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and hit the Enter button - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.
For opening your domain file in Lion for the first time or to switch between multiple domain files Cyclosaurus has provided us with the following script that you can make into an Applescript application with Script Editor. Open Script Editor, copy and paste the script below into Script Editor's window and save as an application.
Just launch the applicaiton, find and select the domain file you want to open and it will open with iWeb. It modifies the iWeb preference file each time it's launched so one can switch between domain files.
do shell script "/usr/bin/defaults write com.apple.iWeb iWebDefaultsDocumentPath -boolean no"delay 1
tell application "iWeb" to activate
You can download an already compiiled version with this link: iWeb Switch Domain. This applicaiton can be use with earlier versions of the OS to select and open multiple domain files.
WARNING: iWeb Switch Domain will overwrite an existing Domain.sites2 file if you select to create a new domain in the same folder. So rename your domain files once they've been created to something other than the default name.
OT

IWeb and godaddy and MobileMe

I'm not sure how to reconcile this b/c web design is completely new to me.
I just purchased a domain name on godaddy.com, and need to find a host.
I understand that godaddy.com has a hosting option, but it doesn't appear that it is friendly to Mac users -- can you even use their web design program if you have a Mac?
I have iWeb 08, and would like to use it to design my new site, and I do not have a MobileMe account.
Do I need to get a MobileMe account and use that as the host in order to create a website in iWeb, and then point godaddy to the MobileMe account as the host? Or is it possible to use godaddy as the host and design the site in iWeb?
Thanks!

I understand that godaddy.com has a hosting option, but it doesn't appear that it is friendly to Mac users -- can you even use their web design program if you have a Mac?
Countless Mac users have sites hosted at Godaddy, no problem. The do not use Godaddy's web design program, they use iWeb or some other Mac app.
Or is it possible to use godaddy as the host and design the site in iWeb?
Yes.

IWeb and GoDaddy FTP

Ok so I have an iWeb site already that I use with MobileMe. Now I want to add another site using godaddy ftp. So I follow the instructions that godaddy gives enter my username, password, etc and test the connection. It fails every time. I really do not know why it is not working or what is wrong. Should I call godaddy? or what.
Thanks,
Jordan

Firstly, do you have a hosting account set up with Godaddy? If not, then it won't work.
Also, iWeb 09 built ftp is notorious for not being that reliable. I would suggest that you download either Cyberduck or Transmit for free and use either of these to upload your other site.
You also should have been given a username and password when you set up your hosting account with Godaddy - if nothing works then you need to contract them, but try Cyberduck or Transmit first.

Iweb and godaddy to host it

I am currently using godaddy to host my iweb.
My website went online fine, but now any updates wont update onto the net.
I have contacted godaddy who say everything looks fine from their point of view and suggested contacted apple support.
Any help would be great as I have filled in everything correctly and uttly confused.

Do you get a message that the upload didn't go thru? If not what is making you think the updates didn't get posted?
If it's what you view in your browser clear your browser's cache (Command+Option+E for Safari) and relaod the site.
OT

IWeb and GoDaddy Hosting of Multiple Sites

GoDaddy users: I have the solution. I have 8 sites all hosted from one host account.
The key is you must have a separate FTP login for each website. In the past I would just use the root. Now, each site has its own.
Examples:
iWeb document name:memorialslive
Site Name: meorialslive
Server address: studiobuzz.biz
User name: memorialslive
Directory/Path: BLANK
URL://www.memorialslive.com
=================
iWeb document name:ministrieslive
Site Name: ministrieslive
Server address: studiobuzz.biz
User name: ministrieslive
Directory/Path: BLANK
URL://www.ministrieslive.com
Etc.
What is also great is that the visit button now works too.
All is good. Apple is once again vindicated.

This is the answer to those of you having troubles with FTP uploads to your GoDaddy web host and maybe others.

Iweb and godaddy how do I do it?

Hey guys thanks for lookng. Here I go alright i made a great website on iweb i want to name it bardol concrete so if i buy the domian from godaddy how do i set it up so that when i type bardol concrete .com it has the website that i made on iweb. thanks i would like step by step instructions

Firstly, log into .Mac and enter your personal domain there.
In GoDaddy settings go and alter the DNS settings and enter www, CNAME and then web.mac.com. It can take up to 24 hours to set up.
There have been lots of posts recently on this topic so just do a search.

Several Iweb and godaddy questions.

Hello Folks:
Just to give you an idea of my proficiency with web design, I'm the equivalent of a student pilot who just soloed. Just enough knowledge to be dangerous and a threat to mankind. Here are my questions:
1. How do I use text editor or word to modify my HTML? I can view the HTML of my site, copy and paste, but can't get it back into iweb as other than alphabet soup. I specifically want to change the email address. I wrote the site having my personal email address in my address book and can't change it to the business email address by just re-publishing with the change to my address book.
2. I published to Godaddy and of course cant use the counter. I tried to follow the instructions after starting an account at Statcounter.com but don't know how to insert it then change it back to a web site. Same basic problem as the email.
2.1 Why would Mac consider something as basic as a counter to be proprietary?
3. Can't get the slideshow to work on Godaddy. It works fine on my computer. On Godaddy, the slide show bar at the very bottom does not publish. I get an enlarged photo with a border on only three sides, nothing at the bottom. I can also enlarge each photo one at a time with the same results.
4. Is the Iweb loaded on my Mac a watered down version? Seems like a lot of features may be lacking, especially if you want to do a business website like mine. I love my Macs and don't want to have to switch to some windows program, but need more than I see on Iweb.
My website is www.airlandandseaparts.com. I'm going to switch into windows hard drive now and see if the slideshow works.
Thank you very much.
Regards,
Kevin
Intel IMAC and Ibook Mac OS X (10.4.9)

I wrote the site having my personal
email address in my address book and can't change it
to the business email address by just re-publishing
with the change to my address book.
You should be able to though... this is strange... Especially if you are publishing to a folder, then you should be able to re-upload the newly published files with the proper email address.
2.1 Why would Mac consider something as basic as a
counter to be proprietary?
The resources for the counter are hosted by .Mac. They can't possibly account for every variable as far as available resources on other hosts. (php, etc - stuff I don't understand nor want/care to but thats what it is about probably)
3. Can't get the slideshow to work on Godaddy. It
works fine on my computer. On Godaddy, the slide
show bar at the very bottom does not publish. I get
an enlarged photo with a border on only three sides,
nothing at the bottom.
Try re-uploading your slideshow_assets folder.
I can also enlarge each photo
one at a time with the same results.
This is how the non-.Mac slideshow works.
You might like this one better:
http://www.codemanic.com/blog-archives/000084.html

Iweb and godaddy

Hi
I am about to purchase a domain with godaddy but do not understand the setup instructions. At one point I am asked to enter up to four name servers (with a minimum of two) The spaces for each one consist of three boxes - what do I type into these boxes? I guess it is my mobile me address but not sure and why are they asking for two?
Any help appreciated
kevin

Kevin,
Sounds like you need the instructions for hosting domains on your MobileMe account. This link will help you out with that - http://help.godaddy.com/article/4100
When you purchase the domain just choose the "park my name at Godaddy.com" option or "skip the set nameservers" option.
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Iweb, mobileme, and godaddy HELP!

I purchased a domain from godaddy.com, designed the website on iweb '09, and have chosen to host the site through mobileme.
After an initial CNAME error on my part, I have been assured by godaddy reps that everything is correct on their end. I have set up the personal domain on my mobileme account, and have published the site from iweb '09 to mobileme. I have waited for the site to propogate onto godaddy servers, and the website is not pulling up. I get an error message that states that the website is temporarily unavailable. I tried republishing through iweb, and nothing seems to help.
My mobileme account is not set to private, and all of the mobileme information is showing correctly.
What do I do to fix this--fast?
Thanks!

Thanks for your help. I spent 4 hours yesterday at my local apple store to see if anyone had additional ideas, and finally a representative deleted the site from my iweb and had me create a new user on my mac. I set up the site through iweb under the new user, but we were still having issues, so we went into godaddy and changed the url forwarding and then masked the site. It was the only solution that worked, and I am thrilled that the site is up and working. I had followed all of the godaddy instructions on the site, and so did the apple reps, (we were troubleshooting mobileme, iweb and godaddy simultaneously) but nothing provided by the godaddy site or godaddy representatives worked. It was just a long process of trial by error that eventually brought us to a solution.
Thank you, everyone for your suggestions, and please know that I tried each one--multiple times. I truly appreciate the help.

IWeb and Mountain Lion

Hello folks,
Through this community, I learned I can't download iWeb to install in Mountain Lion, I need to use an iLife DVD.
OK, I have a MacBook running Snow Leopard and also the DVD that came with it where is iWeb, I believe into iLife. Using exactly my MacBook drive as a remote disc for my new 21.5" iMac, I tried to install, but always get a message saying software in the disc or is already installed in the iMac or it isn't compatible and doesn't allow me to proceed.
Does anybody can help?
Thanks in advance Paulo

Hello OT, Wyodor and ErikDM
First of all thank you all for the suggestions.
I am not sure I understood correctly what you folks suggested, so I'd appreciate some additional guidance.
In my MacBook Applications folder I do have the application iWeb.app, as well as, I also have iDVD.app.
OT suggest alternatively that I should copy this or these applications to a folder I'd create into the Applications folder, copy this folder to my new ML iMac and click on the applications to install or run those; or just copy the iWeb.app to the new iMac. Did I get it correctly?
I already made Library visible in Mountain Lion and in the MacBook my Domain.sites2 is easyly accessible at Home/Library/Application Support.
Did I get OT right understanding I need to copy the iWeb folder from the MacBook and paste in the Application Support in the iMac?
I believe Wyodor Says that to move (or copy?) my Domain.sites2 from MacBook to the new iMac I need to use iWebSites. Am I right?
Finally, ErikDM advises on how to do after moving the domain (I believe with the help of iWebSites) and I am also understanding the double click is to be made over Domain.sites2, Right?.
I have one final doubt. Even if I understood correctly your suggestions, I haven't installed iWeb in the new ML machine. With the suggested procedures, will the iMac do that automatically?
Again, thanks a lot for the suggestions and forgive for annoying once more with these clarifications request
Regards Paulo

IWeb and cloud options

Hi, I'm a longtime iWeb user. But I'm frustrated at the lack of progress with this product. Apple seems reluctant to do much (or I haven't heard of new updates for a long time) so I'm seeking an alternative that is cloud-based. Would you mind throwing out a few cloud-based options that you like? I want it for a website, not a blog, and want it to have good social media integration, slideshows, etc.
I've looked at Wix, Weebly and GoDaddy's new website builder, which is ridiculously confusing in my opinion. Any thoughts about these or other options? Looking for something that will most likely be around in a few years. Thanks and have a great weekend.

Apple stopped supported iWeb a long time ago after stopping selling the iLife boxed sets both in store and online. iWeb was really designed as part of .Mac and then MobileMe, which included one click web publishing. Once they decided to get rid of MobileMe at the end of June last year and replace it with iCloud that does not offer web hosting, there was no need to for iWeb, so no longer supported or sold. If you search this forum, you can find literally thousands of post regarding it.
As for replacements, Wix is no cloud based, but is based on the Wix servers - they are what are known as online web building services, of which there are a lot, including Weebly and Wix. Wix is really not that hard to use and is flash based and you can publish a free site to the Wix servers or use the site with your own domain name.
Other alternatives include, RapidWeaver, Sandvox, Freeway Pro/Express 6, Flux 4, WebAcappella 4 and Quck n Easy Website Builder. There is also something called EasyWeb due to be released by Rage Software, but initially you will have to sign up for their hosting to be able to use it. You can download free trials of most of these, so you can try before you buy.
There are also the Content Management Systems that you can look into using, such as Drupal, Joomla and WordPress.
At the moment though, iWeb still works with Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion, so continue to use it. It may not work any longer once the new OS Mavericks comes along, but it does still work with Mountain Lion.
I have started using WebAcappella and like this, but mostly, I have moved to the CMS's and am currently using Joomla, as you can do more with this, such as membership sites etc.

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