I need an iWeb alternative

Excellent, I'll give it a read. Many thanks

-C

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Well I'm still looking for an Alternative but what I have done so far is I stoping useing Mobile Me and I now have GoDaddy hosting my site. The Negitives to this is that the "Blog" and "Photo" feature that iWeb09 has won't work and your site won't even publish if you have these pages in the site. Besides that it is working pretty well, no problems yet but I really wish Apple would use the iCloud to host iWeb Sites and I wish that Apple may even relaunch the iWeb software.

I don't know, but is there way to do like a poll or a signing of names to maybe convience apple to relaunch iWeb? I would pay for the application because its that awesome. What do you guys think??

Give Flux a try. You can get a demo version here: The Escapers - Flux. It's not as easy as iWeb but is quite good. Be sure to view the video tutorials to get a handle on how to start. There are also some very good video tutorials on YouTube. If you like it it's on sale here for about 4 more days: Mac Software Bundle | Apple Software Download | Mac SuperBundle.

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I could skip the "album page" with it's little stack of pictures foreplay

your have three albums in your albums page, which one would you like to jump to?

Wowslider

there is no need to do any manual work for slideshow, iweb has its own slideshow.

see my post here for building slideshow with iweb photos page:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=13175645&#13175645

example and code had been moved here:

http://iweb3widgets.cyclosaurus.com/AutoSlideshow/AutoSlideshow.html

http://iweb3widgets.cyclosaurus.com/AutoSlideshow/Code.html

Many thanks. I'll put together a group of photos and a fresh iWeb page and give it a try as soon as I've completed my weekend chores.

-C

I took the bold step of starting to convert myself to Adobe Dreamweaver. There are plenty of Training Videos to get you started. iWeb was one small step for man Dreamweaver is one giant leap.....

I have just tried Sandvox but it seemed to be just a poor copy of iWeb.

I'm currently looking at Smugmug to replace iWeb, it seems a good one if your site is a photography site as they provide a sales service, the software and the hosting, all for $150 a year.

Also trying Photoshelter and Zenfolio

Many Thanks Cyclosaurus,

This is what I'm looking for. A couple of quick questions. Can I control the length of time each "slide" is displayed, and how quickly the "fade" comes in and out? And can I get rid of the row of thumbnails along the top and simply have a row of dots or even nothing?

-C

This might help: 27 - Changing Slide and Transition Timing in iWeb Photo and Album Popup Slideshows.

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Can I control the length of time each "slide" is displayed

i just made a small change in my code.

go to my code page and copy the code and look for slideShowPhotoDuration, you can change the display duration there.

and how quickly the "fade" comes in and out?

the transition effect is fixed at half second, so not really; not without dig into apple's

SimpleAnimation code.

And can I get rid of the row of thumbnails along the top and simply have a row of dots or even nothing?

see my post here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2770014?answerId=15948989022#15948989022

Outstanding! Thanks all.

-C

I use Goldfish Pro. It's the closest thing I found to iWeb. Been using it for 3 years, it has done everything I've needed. However, there is little support because the developer is in Germany. It's updated regularly though and has few bugs.

http://www.fishbeam.com/en/goldfish/

I just want to add my vote to hosting at GoDaddy. I chose GoDaddy because I have my domain name through them. I was worried that it was going to be complicated to transfer my website from MobileMe but it wasn't at all.

All you have to do is change a few of the "site publishing settings" in iWeb, click "publish" and your site will go to GoDaddy instead of MobileMe. The techs at GoDaddy will talk you through it.

GoDaddy charges about $50 a year to host (I think I was paying $99 a year for MobileMe), and has 24/7 tech support included. You can cancel anytime and get unused months refunded.

As long as iWeb continues to work, this is a simple and painless solution. When Apple no longer supports iWeb, which is probably inevitable, then I will have to figure out how to build a new website.

Finally getting back to working on this. One more question - When I'm composing the "slideshow" the images do not appear in the album unless I randomly place the cursor over them and click. I'd like to be able to arrange the sequence of the show a little more easily. I seem to remember an opacity setting, but for the life of me I can't find it now.

Many thanks.