To the iWeb Engineers

iWeb is about the only web site building product that really is WYSIWYG. Even in Dreamweaver or GoLive, you have to know coding. iWeb allows someone to only have to focus on the content & design, while not worry about how to make it work. This approach is very Apple. The problem is that iWeb produces pages that are too "heavy", and there are so many limitations in the ability to design. This is ok for the suite that iWeb is a part of (iLife), but imagine how nice it would be for, say, a professional blogger to be able move elements around and than, BAM--instant CSS theme (including sidebars with archives, recent posts, etc).
There is a whole crowd of people that need a more robust version of iWeb; software that has power like Dreamweaver, but without having to worry about coding. This it totally an "Apple job". Perhaps "iWeb Pro". It would be the "Final Cut Pro" version of iWeb. I believe you can accomplish this. And there's a market for it.
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When you have a problem with one particular site, a good "first thing to try" is clearing your Firefox cache and deleting your saved cookies for the site.
(1) Bypass Firefox's Cache
Use Ctrl+Shift+r to reload the page fresh from the server.
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orange Firefox button (or Tools menu) > Options > Advanced
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If you have a large hard drive, this might take a few minutes.
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I had a drive failure and lost the iWeb file along with other things.
I did manage to save a lot of user file documents but I don't see or
recognize the iWeb site file. It was on a 15" G4 Titanium pb.
I'm trying to find a way, using version 2.0.4 of iWeb on a different
pb to recover the file into the iWeb app or a way to download the site into iWeb.
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would be a task for me to recreate the whole thing again. I did
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<http://web.mac.com/danauerbach>
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dan auerbach
[email protected]

Unfortunately iWeb cannot read or import previously published files, only generate them. You'll have to recreate your site from scratch.
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OT

I posted this message in the iWeb section and they suggested I try here...

I posted the following message on the iWeb bulletin board, and it was suggested that the error I am getting might be an OS issue instead of an iWeb issue.
message is as follows:
iWeb will not publish to .Mac. After pressing publish, the program signs into .mac and then proceeds to create the web pages. Once all the pages are created circles form next to their consecutive sites. These usually fill up like a clock showing the site being uploaded. However, for the past few days nothing happens once the circles appear. Then after a few minutes iWeb crashes. Also, during this time my whole computer freezes. iTunes will stop playing until the iWeb crash is complete. This has happened every time I have tried to publish over the past few days. Just last week I was able to publish without any problems.
I think there might be a problem with .mac because I am able to publish to a folder without any problems.
I have repaired permissions over and over again...
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Parent Process: launchd 82
Date/Time: 2008-01-14 16:57:18.418 -0500
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.1 (9B18)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 14
--- finished---
Today, safari crashed with the same error message.
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I was able to get it to work...
After creating a new user account, I moved the domain file over to the new account.
However, I still had the problem where iWeb would crash.
I was able to publish when I moved the previous domain file to another folder and tried with a new site a and domain file.
For me this meant that somehow my old domain file had become corrupt. I was really upset. I had kept a blog regularly for over two years and now everything was lost.
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Anyway, thinking I had lost two years worth of blog entries I was desperate. So, I tried something drastic. I erased the contents of the Web folder on my idisk. And this did the trick. It seems that going from over 400 MB to 30 MB was too much for iWeb to handle at one time. Now that it is a brand new site, it up loads without a problem.
Just in time too. I needed iWeb to get another site up and going!
Before trying to upload I did not have to erase the .plist file or anything to get it to work.
I also did not reinstall iWeb or Mac OS X.
I wish you the VERY best of luck!!
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