Who is iWeb for?

Hello
I am researching different possibilities for creating my website. At first sight, iWeb seems excellent, but I am very puzzled at certain features of iWeb, for example, if one doesn't publish to .Mac, it apparently is not possible to allow users to enter comments on your blog.
What is that all about.?
It seems that the originators of iWeb are saying "dont use iWeb if you want a website which works really well in all respects. - certain useful features are reserved only for a clique of paying members". I cant understand the thinking behind this aproach, or am I missing something?
toymaker1
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.8)

It is certainly possible that part of Apple's choices relate to wanting folks to use .mac. But it is also related to Apple's purpose of creating a website creation application for folks with no knowledge (and no interest in) html css, etc. It is also consistent with Apple's tendancy to want to control software and hardware in order to provide the best experience possible. Folks get some nice "advanced" features for the websites without having to know how to configure them to work with different hosts.
In terms of commenting on blogs, I am guessing that it takes special server set-ups and/or scripts to handle commenting. Apple has .mac and iWeb set up to work together, but that setup presumably doesn't work with other hosts. (And let me emphasize that I am only guessing here....I don't know much about the technical aspects of websites, servers, etc.)
All that said, if you are willing to do some post-publishing work, it is possible to use comments if you are publishing to a non .mac host. There is a program called iComment that, in combination, lets you use the Haloscan service to do comments. There may be other approaches as well.
Most of the .mac-only features can be replicated when publishing to other hosts, if one is willing to do some post-publising editing.
I publish to .mac, so I'm not familiar with the ins and outs of the process, but there are others here who have done it.
There have also been rumors that the next release of iWeb will include easier ways to add html code to iWeb websites. Originally there was some hope that iLife 07 would be announced at WWDC earlier this month. But I am beginning to think that there won't be an iLife 07, that we will all have to wait until 2008 for a new version of iLife (of which iWeb is a part).
iBook G4 14 in Mac OS X (10.4.9) iMac 400 MHz G3 OS 9.2.2

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below.
From: [email protected][SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, August 12, 1996 10:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Who is FORTE for ? Who would benefit from FORTE ?
Who is forte really for ? Who would benefit from FORTE ?
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responses
below.
From: [email protected][SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, August 12, 1996 10:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Who is FORTE for ? Who would benefit from FORTE ?
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probably faster and cleaner.I think that there are so many easy-to-use and economical tool
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I like Forte', but I have to agree with you. In a straight Windows 95/NT
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use of their proprietary object broker etc are things that they'll
need to address
in upcoming releases to remain competitive.Also if your application is not for a large number of users (large,
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Jeff Austin
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[email protected]
http://fortefy.wilmington.net

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