What happens to my websites created in iWeb when iCloud replaces IWeb as is rumoured... they will be lost?
iWeb '08, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
this youtube video shows easily how to free host with drop box
an ipad version would be like pages, a good out and about update, but as with pages etc, it doesn't totally weight up... there's always squarespace
I think the issue is not "no support", but no mention of it anywhere by them, and it has been some time since they added anything new on iWeb.
If Apple is not going to be supporting iWeb in the future with the elimination of MobileMe, and brag about this new "iCloud" thing, they should be notifying their members, each paying $99 per year! Many people have business websites, and need to know if they need to get out, or if there will be continued support for sites hosted by them.
Isn't that a fair request?
From previous Apple behavior, once they stop updating something, and then stop mentioning it, that means it is virtually dead. I've never seen them shift gears on a product and "save it" once it has been placed in "limbo".
You can still use iWeb, it's just very doubtful it will ever be updated again. It's the web hosting component that made iWeb so easy that is the other half of the package that has according to everything Apple has told us thus far is this sentence
"Your MobileMe subscription will be automatically extended through June 30, 2012, at no additional charge. After that date, MobileMe will no longer be available."
Meaning the default Apple position is, if it's not mentioned as part of iCloud, it is DISCONTINUED....and if you need to make long range plans, ( I have a half dozen personal web and business sites not to mention my web design class with 35 students all using my MobileMe family pack) that is pretty much the presumption you need to go on at this point.
While a year is good amount of time to find an alternative (I'm thankful that Apple is giving us that much time) and I won't HAVE to find a solution for a while, the back of my mind would feel better knowing a viable alternative is a available for my eventual needs.
And maybe if we flood the boards enough, Apple will be convinced to continue offering iWeb / Homepage as a paid extra service!
I just want to go on record with Apple that I stand with these folks. I think that I was an original .Mac member, when I bought my first Apple product in college - PowerBook G4 Ti. I built a family website to stay connected while at school overseas. When .Mac died, so did my blog. (Wife started up a personal blog on a 3rd-party site). I kept my @mac.com email to show that I joined before the iPod, iPad, and social media brought in the horde.
Now my science hobbyist website is at risk. iWeb was so easy to document my project and experiments, I jumped right into sharing with other hobbyists. It looks great and is easy to update, but now?
Apple, Inc. - Please continue hosting my website.
The message about a free year extension is nice, but not even saying anything about those of us running websites by iWeb on MobileMe is not a very good customer service dealing.
Maybe they can send something to those on MobileMe that are running sites?
Whatever, thankfully the secure login option on an iWeb made website (iweg.org - a wine school with multiple levels for students to login securely.....a critical option needed in support elsewhere) seems to be a possibility.
Is it within the site rules to start a thread for everyone to post links to their iWeb pages, in the hope that someone from Apple will see it and be so impressed that they'll decide to continue to support it? I know I'm probably dreaming...
If not, perhaps someone could start a page (in iWeb, of course!) for that purpose.
For what it's worth...
www.paleolab.org
www.carmelchurchquarry.org
Please don't scrap our websites!
I have been using Apple's web service to host pages since it was .Mac, so I'm NOT happy if they're going to get rid of this service. Even if they charged a nominal fee, I'd still like to keep my files hosted on that site. Changing it now would be a tremendous p.i.t.a.
Correction to my earlier post, iTunes Match is $24.99 a year, iCloud (basic) is FREE!
I would pay a nominal fee if they continued to host my site. It ain't much, but it would be a lot of work to get it transferred over to another service.
A lot of answers are focussing on the withdrawal of iWeb on Mobileme... But hopefully the upload to domain name servers from iWeb will continue to work just fine. There are only a couple of advantages to Mobileme web hosting such as blog replying and password protection. SO I SINCERELY HOPE that even if the link to mobileme from iWeb becomes dead.. the use of iWeb for other simple web design and uploading to a domain name server stays as is..
Also I thought iWeb had been updated recently -- just not a new version release.
hmmm no iWeb update with iLife '11 then this. I've got a bad feeling about this for my websites.
http://www.kentarnsbarger.com for my iWeb thing.
I spent between the end of October of '10 and April of '11 getting my Mobile Me service ALL put back together... Syncing was HORRID and lost contact list of 800 was devistating. But what was worse was the Once a Week emails from Apple Tech support asking if I could try a different method of restoring... I FINNALY got it all working again a month and a half ago... Was appauld they had the gaul to Charge me another 99 dollars in January for another years worth of NON Service... And now, they are taking it all down? Well, cant help but think Maybe its a Good thing!... Something was NOT good about it. But **** if this next incarnation of iCloud better work!... and as for my website posted on Mobile me? It doesnt sound like its going to be supported... I also have questions about MOVIES and Some VERY old Recordings I have NOT found Anywhere that are in my itunes... whats to become of those? I HOPE there is an option to sync still with some content and with the cloud with itunes content. Otherwise... lets all just submit to Bigbrother in the iCloud controled content manager in the sky.
Ditto same concerns as others have posted here the lack of iWeb updates and the subsequent iCloud announcement is writing on the wall.
Apple please continue to support hosting & iWeb
What happens to my websites created in iWeb when iCloud replaces IWeb (Rumoured)?...
