Where can you publish iWeb creations?

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Where can you publish iWeb creations?

Hi,

I am very new to iWeb and am trying to learn how to make it all work. Once a page has been created in iWeb, I want to learn where I can go to publish it. Obviously, MobileMe is one option. However, I have read here at the forums all about the agony that MobileMe brings and I am not prepared to go down that route. My interest in computing will quickly evaporate if I experience anywhere near the frustrations that MobileMe users get every day.

So what other options are available? Free is good but I'll gladly pay for quality service. My goal is just to produce a blog using iWeb.

Thanks very much for your help.

Macbook Pro, 2.53 ghz, 15" antiglare screen, Mac OS X (10.6.2), 4 gigs RAM

Posted on Apr 9, 2010 3:40 PM

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Roddy

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Apr 9, 2010 4:52 PM in response to Ratty Mouse

Free usually means not so good. I use Host Excellence for publishing but, if you are blogging and don't need an actual website, you would be better to forget iWeb and use something like Blogger or Wordpress.

The iWeb blog is one of its least desirable features and can cause many frustrating problems. If you publish to a server other than MobileMe you will lose the commenting feature.
You can create a far more professional and trouble free blog courtesy of Google and publishing is absolutely free....

https://www.blogger.com/start

For more about Wordpress see....

http://iwebfaq.org/site/iWeb_Blogging.html

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Ratty Mouse Author

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Apr 9, 2010 5:27 PM in response to Roddy

Thanks for the reply. I did not know iWeb was so bad for blogging. That is a shame as it looks like iWeb is exactly the type of software my wife needs. Anything more complicated and she might not be able to handle it. Oh well, it is a shame that Apple did not develop this better.

By the way, I should have mentioned this earlier. I am living in China right now and Google services are for the most part blocked here. I tried to look at the link you sent from Google. No luck.

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Roddy

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Apr 9, 2010 7:03 PM in response to Ratty Mouse

I had heard about the Google Thing in China but didn't have actual proof until now!

I use an application called Blogo to compile and upload blogs and, at this time, it doesn't upload automatically to Wordpress. It does do this to Blogger and Twitter which are free and TypePad which costs about the same as web hosting.

Using Blogo makes life even easier than the iWeb blog without all the problems and I'm sure your wife will be able to learn it OK.

http://www.drinkbrainjuice.com/blogo

Another blogging software to look at is cheaper but not such a nice interface.....

http://myownapp.com/applications/myblogedit/myblogedit.html

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