iWeb's future?

iWeb runs OK in Mountain Lion. See this page for more info...

http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/mountain-lion.html

If you intend to use iWeb a lot, I would keep it on a bootable external drive using Snow Leopard. It runs best under that OS as do most things. Opening separate sites under Mountain Lion takes longer and is a pain.

iWeb still works, though with the demise of MobileMe there are a few facilities such as blog comments which don't work. You can publish to another hosting service, so people who have invested effort in iWeb sites can keep going.

However I seriously would advice anyone who isn't already using iWeb not to start now. So far it works (mostly), but it's not being supported nor updated, and sooner or later a system upgrade will break it. It's not really a sensible idea to commit to something which is obsolete as you'll only have to change over to something else later. There are various other options, and choosing something which is being properly supported will pay off in the long run.

Please give me iWeb back to iLife. Thanks

Wordpress is a CMS (Content Management System) for people who can't build websites to update and manage their site. It produces huge amounts of code and is not a sensible choice for creating websites.

A reasonably simple iWeb page run through an optimizer will beat a Wordpress site any day.

Applications like Rapid Weaver and Sandvox are similar to iWeb but don't produce any better code and are more expensive. If you are happy with iWeb and can accept its limitaions I wouldn't waste your money on any of its competition. Something better will come along.

iWeb is history and we might as well acept it.

The only application I have looked at that comes anywhere near it in price is this one....

http://www.quickandeasywebbuilder.com

Its also cross platform and will suit those who otherwise may be driven to using an online website builder in desperation!

As you now know iWeb and iDVD have been discontinued by Apple. This is evidenced by the fact that new Macs are shipping with iLife 11 installed but without iWeb and iDVD.

On June 30, 2012 MobileMe was shutdown. HOWEVER, iWeb will still continue to work but without the following:

Features No Longer Available Once MobileMe is Discontinued:

◼ Password protection

◼ Blog and photo comments

◼ Blog search

◼ Hit counter

◼ MobileMe Gallery

All of these features can be replaced with 3rd party options.

Currently if the site is published directly from iWeb to the 3rd party server the RSS feed and slideshow subscription features will work. However, if the site is first published to a folder on the hard drive and then uploaded to the sever with a 3rd party FTP client those two features will be broken.

There's another problem and that's with iWeb's popup slideshows. Once the MMe servers are no longer online the popup slideshow buttons will not display their images.

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This issue will come into play when Apple takes down the MMe servers. Currently they are still up so that uses can download their MMe Gallery photos and iDisk files. Eventually when the servers are taken down you will see this issue. You can see what it will be like by publishing your site to a folder on your hard drive, disconnecting from the internet, opening the site with your browser and playing a slideshow.

However, Roddy McKay and I have figured out a way to modify existing sites with those slideshows and iWeb itself so that those images will display as expected once MobileMe servers are gone. How to is described in this tutorial: iW14 - Modify iWeb So Popup Slideshows Will Work After MobileMe is Discontinued.

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