David Strait
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Photography

Q: How well does iWeb work with El Capitan?

I've continued to use this old software with no significant problems with Yosemite, but plan on moving my website to another app fairly soon (probably EverWeb). However, I don't want to upgrade to El Capitan before I make this move if the upgrade significantly breaks iWeb.

 

Anyone have any experience with iWeb on OS X 10.11?

 

Thanks,

Dave

Posted on Oct 1, 2015 6:20 AM

by David Strait,Solvedanswer
David Strait David Strait
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A:

Richard,

Ethmoid is correct. Apple will not never update iWeb again and it will just get more and more broken with every OS X update. Eventually you will have to get a new computer that won't even be able to use Yosemite. Frankly, I'm surprised it has worked so well for so log, but I've decided it is past time to move on.

 

Like you, my website has hundreds of pages and it is painful to think about rewriting the entire site. However, I decided to recreate it using EverWeb. It really is very similar to iWeb, but offers many advantages. There are also a few disadvantages (masking is much less versatile), plus it cost money! It seemed a little expensive to me at first, but they have excellent 24/7 phone/email support and that isn't cheap. I mentioned my disappointment with their masking tool and they said they would consider improving it it a future version (we'll see). They do update the program regularly, so it should continue to improve.

 

Next, I have to find a replacement for Aperture. Moving from iWeb to EverWeb is child's play compared to moving from Aperture to Lightroom. At least Aperture still (mostly) works on El Capitan!

 

Thanks for everyone's response to my inquiry about iWeb on El Capitan.

 

Dave

Posted on Oct 29, 2015 7:32 AM

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  • by Wyodor,

    Wyodor Wyodor Oct 1, 2015 6:50 AM in response to David Strait
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    Oct 1, 2015 6:50 AM in response to David Strait

    Works fine, including :

     

    http://wyodor.byethost8.com/iwebsites/iWebSites.html

  • by Corier,

    Corier Corier Oct 1, 2015 6:51 AM in response to David Strait
    Level 1 (23 points)
    Oct 1, 2015 6:51 AM in response to David Strait

    Hi David,
    I am using fine iWeb 3.0.4 on OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 

  • by Ethmoid,

    Ethmoid Ethmoid Oct 2, 2015 12:37 AM in response to Corier
    Level 6 (11,252 points)
    Oct 2, 2015 12:37 AM in response to Corier

    Try reading the question properly and you will see that this is NOT what the OP was actually asking.

     

    His question was "Does iWeb still work with El Capitan and NOT Yosemite!

  • by Cro-nelis,Helpful

    Cro-nelis Cro-nelis Oct 3, 2015 5:42 AM in response to David Strait
    Level 1 (13 points)
    Oct 3, 2015 5:42 AM in response to David Strait

    iWeb (version 3.0.4) works even better on El Capitan and my iMac 27" 3TB fusion HD (late 2013). On Yosemite the blog articles section didn't expand automatically and you couldn't move to lower ledger to list more articles. These things work again in El Capitan!

    For the rest no problems at all, publishing to FTP server works, masking works, editing images works, etc. Except for some old widgets of course ...

  • by Corier,

    Corier Corier Oct 2, 2015 4:29 AM in response to Ethmoid
    Level 1 (23 points)
    Oct 2, 2015 4:29 AM in response to Ethmoid

    You are correct!

  • by Warren Eig,

    Warren Eig Warren Eig Oct 2, 2015 12:55 PM in response to David Strait
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    Oct 2, 2015 12:55 PM in response to David Strait

    I noticed my fonts are all squished together in Yosemite.  The kerning is so tight the letters bump each other.  This is on pages I've created and made no changes to.  The kerning changes just opening a page in iWeb.  There is no text setting to adjust this.  Hopefully El Capitan will fix this.

  • by NowhereMan,

    NowhereMan NowhereMan Oct 2, 2015 5:56 PM in response to Cro-nelis
    Level 1 (19 points)
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    Oct 2, 2015 5:56 PM in response to Cro-nelis

    I'm having the same problem too!  I just tried to open iWeb and it crashed and gave me the report/reopen window at least a dozen times.  I've installed El Capitan.  I've already recreated my website in RapidWeaver 6, but I haven't entirely committed to FTPing that yet.  If I can't get iWeb to run at least one more time to check my changes in RW6, I'll be stuck.

  • by sethgdurham,Helpful

    sethgdurham sethgdurham Oct 3, 2015 9:12 AM in response to David Strait
    Level 1 (10 points)
    Oct 3, 2015 9:12 AM in response to David Strait

    I am struggling with all links on my published page since upgrading to Capitan. Most things that have links are not appearing on the website. the link is there if you mouse over, but no visible images. Trying to figure this one out. Not sure if it is a Capitan issue or something else. It started the day after upgrading.

  • by sethgdurham,Helpful

    sethgdurham sethgdurham Oct 3, 2015 9:53 AM in response to David Strait
    Level 1 (10 points)
    Oct 3, 2015 9:53 AM in response to David Strait

    After attempting to add new links, I can say it's not working on my system. I no longer get the link symbol (blue circle with arrow) on any new links created in iWeb and many of my old link are not showing up in browsers. It is adding the link, but hidden from view until mousing over and then you see the finger point. This is beyond my level so if anyone knows if this is iWeb, browser or El Capitan related please jump in. Thanks.

  • by Cro-nelis,

    Cro-nelis Cro-nelis Oct 4, 2015 3:22 AM in response to sethgdurham
    Level 1 (13 points)
    Oct 4, 2015 3:22 AM in response to sethgdurham

    After publishing new pages of my website in El Capitan all of the new links work exactly as before (viewed in Safari and Firefox). So, my best guess is that it's something else - not iWeb causing your link problems.

  • by sethgdurham,

    sethgdurham sethgdurham Oct 4, 2015 9:19 AM in response to Cro-nelis
    Level 1 (10 points)
    Oct 4, 2015 9:19 AM in response to Cro-nelis

    I have had some time to play around further and yes, it seems unique to this one site. I actually publish 3 sites with iWeb and the other two work great with El Capitan. The main site is no longer uploading properly and links are not working. If anyone has any input on how to reset this I'd love some advice. I have rebooted. I have run the Apple repair disk in utilities. I have published the entire site. I have deleted links and tried to re-add them and no luck. Not sure what happened. I can't create any new links either, but changes to text do appear. Thank you in advance.

  • by David Strait,

    David Strait David Strait Oct 4, 2015 10:47 AM in response to sethgdurham
    Level 2 (216 points)
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    Oct 4, 2015 10:47 AM in response to sethgdurham

    sethgdurham,

    Glad to hear this appears to be a limited issue (and possibly unrelated to El Capitan). Please post again if you find out more.

     

    I wasn’t completely sure from your post if the issue is only with new links that were created with iWeb after you upgraded to El Capitan (and old links that were created before you upgraded work OK?). Or perhaps ALL the links on that particular site stopped working, regardless when they were created(?).

     

    I still haven’t upgraded my desktop Mac where I use iWeb to update my main websites; just a couple laptops where I don’t generally use iWeb. However, I did make a quick website from my laptop and it seemed OK (I didn’t test it thoroughly, however).

     

    Dave  

  • by Rdc Music,

    Rdc Music Rdc Music Oct 4, 2015 1:19 PM in response to David Strait
    Level 1 (0 points)
    Oct 4, 2015 1:19 PM in response to David Strait

    I have a problem with my iWeb.

    I updated my operating system as well ... and now i'm getting a message

     

    Publish Error

    There was an error communicating with the FTP server. Try again later, or check with your service provider.

     

    for some reason it now won't publish.

    I've confirmed the server address, username, password, directory path and protocol and port.

    All seems fine. when I test the connection .. it reads

    "Testing Succeeded!" You can now publish your site to the selected FTP server.

    But then when I try to publish I get that publishing error..

     

     

    any ideas as to why it won't work?

     

    Ron

  • by Cro-nelis,

    Cro-nelis Cro-nelis Oct 4, 2015 11:44 PM in response to sethgdurham
    Level 1 (13 points)
    Oct 4, 2015 11:44 PM in response to sethgdurham

    Probably you have added troublesome HTML-fragments to you iWeb project or injected extra codes to you website that is hosted?

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