Updating iWeb

Hi, I m just wondering if you think that Apple will update iWeb with "add-ons" with paypal button, templates, and others capabilities in the near future. iWeb is great but I think it's too restrictive in some ways and I'm surprised thatn Apple locked it!
Comments are appreciated!

You can already do paypal buttons. It's just a matter of putting the right code in the link. I posted step-by-step instructions here for both sale and donation buttons:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1976180#1976180
You can copy paypal's graphics but it's much nicer to create your own button with a shape. You'll find an example on the top right of my page here:
http://web.mac.com/jkevinwolfe/iWeb/PixTricks/Blog/Blog.html
There are a lot of things we'd all like to be able to do with iWeb. It would be nice if we could just add a plugin for things like paypal, skype, etc. But both of these can be done now with little work. If you search, you'll find my step-by-step on including a skype button that involves putting an extra file on your server of .mac, but no html hacking.
Kevin

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Im wondering and asking when will Apple find the time to update Iweb?
They have the potential to have the best software for those that want to make lovely sites.
It would need to be of the Iphoto standard or even slightly more advanced with better updated templates.
Now that we have updated OS and now our retina devices we need that standrd to create.
Please Apple fill our needs!
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sionj123 wrote:
why did they dicontinue?
I haven't seen an official notice of discontinuation. But even if iWeb has been discontinued (as its absence suggests), we're all just users like yourself here so would only be able to speculate on the reasons — and, according to Support Community etiquette, we are to "avoid speculation".

Apple, please keep and update iWeb!

Please go to the iWeb feedback site and send Apple an email to keep and update iWeb!
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iweb.html
Great, thanks!

I really doubt if that will do much good but certainly give it a try. However:
It's now confirmed that iWeb and iDVD have been discontinued by Apple. This is evidenced by the fact that new Macs are shipping with iLife 11 installed but without iWeb and iDVD.
On June 30, 2012 MobileMe will be shutdown. 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.
In addition 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 currently available at the online Apple Store (Store button at the top of the page) and those copies still on the shelves of retailers will include iWeb and iDVD.
This may be of some interest to you: Life After MobileMe. And as a replacement for iWeb give Flux 3 a try. You can use it in demo mode for 30 days. If you do decide to try it view the video tutorials at their site and the 3rd party videos at YouTube. I found them to be very helpful.
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iWeb was only ever created in the first place to go with MobileMe to support web publishing, so when they decided to get rid of MobileMe and replace it with iCloud, there was no need to keep iWeb any longer, which is why they withdrew support for it and stopped selling iLife.
Perhaps it is time to start finding out a litte about html. All you do is click on the html snippet and drag and drop it onto your iWeb page and then copy and paste code there and click on Apply. If you want to make good websites these days, then you need to know some html.
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I keep getting an error message, sometimes the beginning part changes but it always ends with the quote above. I haven't had the time to work ont his in a few weeks, but weeks ago I got a response that indicated the "best" FTP to use, because they give each iweb user their own support person with whom the user can speal everytime, instead of getting as new person each call/email.
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Here's the hosting that gives you a personal support person...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/Website-Hosting.html
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http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/iWeb-Tips.html
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Peter Weisz1 wrote:
Some sort of limited access to certain variable text components would be a workable solution, however.
Peter ~ If you’re a Weebly Pro user, you can restrict people’s editing access on Macs and PCs to specific pages:
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SEO
A built-in store for customer purchases using PayPal
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Drop-down Navigation Bar
Contact page with automatic response to customers who want to subscribe to blog or updates
Newsletter integration with sign-up form and auto-responder
Ability to customize headers, footers and sidebars particularly for navigation to other pages and allow them to be selected for use on any pages
Ability to Email a link to individual pages. Right now you can only email the URL address of the home page. This doesn't allow you to send someone a link to a specific article or blog page.
The ability to assign default settings for subsequent pages for things like font type and sizes. This should be flexible enough to change if needed, but right now (because we can't set custom templates), we have to change the settings for each individual page.
The pages load slowly and if you have imbedded video, this is even slower. Not all customers have the fastest download speed.
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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.
NOTE: If you repair disk permissions with Disk Utility on your boot drive you will have to rerun the script with Terminal to make the Library folder visible again.
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Thank you! I'm running the Publish all to Mobile now. I didn't even know that was an option! (Guess I should thoroughly read the manuals on some of this stuff eh? (Only been using iWeb since, well it's inception, LOL).
Seriously though, I did as you said first, just changed something minor on a page, published it, and it worked fine. I'm assuming re-publishing the whole site will fix it all.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. 8-)

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Thanks...

The iWeb pages don't automatically update like iPhoto Web Galleries do. You will have to add the new photos to the iWeb photo page and republish that page.
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