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Q: What happens to iWeb when there's no Mobile Me?

I was disappointed to learn that Apple will turn off Mobile Me next year. I'm a teacher and I liked using iWeb to create a small website for my classes (Homework, Activities,etc.). It was easy and the pages looked OK to me. I haven renewed my Mobile Me subscription when I bought a new iMac in January. Now I have to go through a bunch s__t to get a refund.

 

I am not interested in iClouds, iPhones, iPads, etc. I just don't want all the extra stuff. I just liked having an easy to post a website and create decent looking webpages.

 

You have to pay for iCloud, right? If I don't use and don't intend to use any iOS devices, what good is iCloud? Does it have any value?

 

What happens to my iDisk after June 30, 2012? Does it disappear?

 

Will iWeb be killed as well? I am told that you can publish webpages with iWeb to 3rd party sites, but if the application is no longer supported, it won't be long before it won't work correctly.

 

Are there any applications as good as and EASY as iWeb to use?

iBook G4 / iMacG4 / iMacG5 / / Mac Book Pro/ eMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Jun 6, 2011 7:48 PM

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  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Mar 23, 2012 3:44 PM in response to TopSteve
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    Mar 23, 2012 3:44 PM in response to TopSteve

    There was no disrespect intended.  But you'd be surprised how many users here don't know about the spell checker.  In the interest of expediency I often assume the poster doesn't know and offer the info.  I just assumed that if you saw the many offerings you'd be able to recognize the correct one.  Many spell checks only offer one, maybe two options.  My apologies.

  • by Cyclosaurus,

    Cyclosaurus Cyclosaurus Mar 23, 2012 5:28 PM in response to KHvG
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    Mar 23, 2012 5:28 PM in response to KHvG

    like e.g. the hit counter... but as technology develops

    it can be done, see this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/message/17928972#17928972

  • by TopSteve,

    TopSteve TopSteve Mar 24, 2012 1:01 AM in response to Old Toad
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    Mar 24, 2012 1:01 AM in response to Old Toad

    I understand, apologes not needed.

    Old Toad wrote:

     

    There was no disrespect intended.  But you'd be surprised how many users here don't know about the spell checker.  In the interest of expediency I often assume the poster doesn't know and offer the info.  I just assumed that if you saw the many offerings you'd be able to recognize the correct one.  Many spell checks only offer one, maybe two options.  My apologies.

  • by TopSteve,

    TopSteve TopSteve Mar 24, 2012 1:02 AM in response to Cyclosaurus
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    Mar 24, 2012 1:02 AM in response to Cyclosaurus

    Thank you for the link.

  • by KHvG,

    KHvG KHvG Mar 24, 2012 1:52 AM in response to Cyclosaurus
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    Mar 24, 2012 1:52 AM in response to Cyclosaurus

    Thank you very much Cyclosaurus

  • by Mike Rousseau,

    Mike Rousseau Mike Rousseau Mar 27, 2012 4:23 PM in response to Old Toad
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    Mar 27, 2012 4:23 PM in response to Old Toad

    Okay I am ready to make the move from MobileMe to something for my iWeb websites.   I have many websites each with many pages all made on iWeb.   When searching for a host (not sure if that is the correct term) do I need to find one that allows multiple IP adreeses?   iWeb allows creating a new site and new pages so I do not know what I need. 

  • by Roddy,

    Roddy Roddy Mar 27, 2012 5:49 PM in response to Mike Rousseau
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    Mar 27, 2012 5:49 PM in response to Mike Rousseau

    Yes, the account I use allows up to 15 sites with their own IP address and therefore domain name...

     

    http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/Website-Hosting.html

     

    When checking this out, look for the number of dedicated IP addresses available with the account.

  • by TopSteve,

    TopSteve TopSteve Mar 28, 2012 12:18 AM in response to Mike Rousseau
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    Mar 28, 2012 12:18 AM in response to Mike Rousseau

    First sorrry for the spelling I am dislex.

     

    Secound some background;  I run 3 website and have installed and run in the past over 15 all with diffent domains some have been hosted by 3rd party hosting companeys and some I have hosted on my computers/servers in my office and 2 are at a computer senter I run.

     

    To answer Roddy; Domain names to IP addresses?  you CAN have multiple domain names on one IP. 

    Do you need a single IP for one Domain? this is much more complex and is best left for a diffient forum (e-mail me if you need to know more)

     

    Each website need's one Domain, sub-Domain or sub-part of a Domain  (www.domain.com, sub-domain.domain.com or www.domain.com/sub-part).

     

    Example:

    a joomla (Content managment system (CMS))     http://www.tompkins-macqueen.com/Joomla/

    a iWeb site                                                       http://www.tompkins-macqueen.com/Site-2/Welcome.html

    Sandvox (a iWeb altinatave)                               http://www.holidayaegina.com/

     

    I did have http://photo.tompkins-macqueen.com  but that site is down for a re-think

     

    All of these sites are hosted on one account and one IP address the Hosting company in the case "godaddy" sorts out the bandwith and servers.

     

    each site can have as many pages as you want.

     

    The better question is dose the hosting company support the fuctions that you use in iWeb (see next post)

  • by TopSteve,

    TopSteve TopSteve Mar 28, 2012 12:41 AM in response to TopSteve
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    Mar 28, 2012 12:41 AM in response to TopSteve

    iWeb support the problem is with some of the Widgets.  "MobilMe Gallery" being the ovice one that will no longer (when mailbileme stops) work  Some people have taled about a Apple "Hit Counter" and perhaps the "Countdown" widget not working.

     

    Most web hosts offer "PHP" (a proghramming languge DON"T PANIC you don't need to know programming to use this) and this gives you access to lot's on add ins/Widgets to your website.

     

    The key is moving things like Gallerys for the Widgets/mobileme me way of doing things to standare website ways.  How?  First store your photo's in iPhoto or Aperture(or some other way of keeping your photo's orginized (i don't know about iCloud) then in iWeb make new page and chouse "Photos" or "My Albums" you can poplat these pages direct from iPhoto and Aperture.  There are other was like "picasa" that have plugins for iPhoto and Aperture and can be liked to from your website.

     

    Moving on, I have found hostting companys that are specifically for MAC but thay seem more expencive than others and I am not shoure that there are any advarntages to these.

     

    Well I hope that gave some pointers

     

    http://www.webhostingmadness.com/#budgetwebhosting  

     

    A good start point

  • by TopSteve,

    TopSteve TopSteve Mar 28, 2012 1:42 AM in response to Mike Rousseau
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    Mar 28, 2012 1:42 AM in response to Mike Rousseau

    P.S.

     

    http://webhostinggeeks.com/

     

    Perhaps a better view

  • by TopSteve,

    TopSteve TopSteve Mar 28, 2012 3:55 AM in response to Mike Rousseau
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    Mar 28, 2012 3:55 AM in response to Mike Rousseau

    One other thing I have found out is meny of the companys give indrouction prices so wachout for that.

  • by GBH-UK,

    GBH-UK GBH-UK Mar 31, 2012 5:49 AM in response to GBH-UK
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    Mar 31, 2012 5:49 AM in response to GBH-UK

    Thanks for the links and advice. I'm going to hang on for MacMate.me I think - I've been having a good email conversation with them and they seem like they know their stuff. They reply pretty quickly too, almost like IM!

  • by photoguy39,

    photoguy39 photoguy39 Apr 5, 2012 11:55 AM in response to Mike Rousseau
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    Apr 5, 2012 11:55 AM in response to Mike Rousseau

    I use NewMobileMe. I can have multiple iWeb sites even though I don't have domain names.

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Apr 5, 2012 12:06 PM in response to photoguy39
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    Apr 5, 2012 12:06 PM in response to photoguy39

    Then take a look at this tutorial: iW16 - Using HostExcellence.com with iWeb.  With one domain name you can have multiple websites.  I have one domain name, oldtoad.net, and multiple websites with the following URL:

     

    oldtoad.net/Demo_1

    oldtoad.net/Demo_2

    oldtoad.net/Demo_3

    oldtoad.net/Demo_4

    oldtoad.net/HelperSite

    oldtoad.net/HelperSite2.

     

    Or you can use subdomains and have the url to be like this:

     

    Demo_1/oldtoad.net

    Demo_2/oldtoad.net

    etc.

     

    This may be of interest to you: Life After MobileMe.

  • by jillbrock,

    jillbrock jillbrock Apr 10, 2012 9:06 AM in response to Joeswell
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    Apr 10, 2012 9:06 AM in response to Joeswell

    You can publish Iweb through JUST HOST.   This is a great web host site and there are a couple of guys there that know Iweb really well.  They can even show you how to publish directly through your Iweb FTP port instead of having to go through Cyberduck or another outside port.

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