iWeb Replacement

If you had bothered to read the whole of this thread properly, you would know why Apple discontinued iWeb - iWeb was created specifically for MobileMe and one click publishing. Once MobileMe went over a year and a half ago now, there was no further need for iWeb because iCloud does not offer web hosting services and Apple no longer sells iWeb and has not supported it for a very long time and has never sold iWeb in the App store and is never likely to now.

Have a look at Freeway Pro/Express as alternatives or EverWeb is very like iWeb, but with better features available. (http://www.everwebapp.com).

As for Apple listening to you here - this is not going to happen - this is a public user to user technical support forum, so you'll need to send your feedback directly to Apple. http://www.apple.com/feedback.

iWeb has gone and it never likely to come back so move on.

So, are you telling me that in Version 1 of EasyWeb users will be able to:

1. Add descriptions to photos in the gallery
2. Control the number of images displayed per page in the gallery
3. Add an image wrap (wrap text around an image)
4. Use bulleted or numbered lists (like this one)

These are just 4 of the most basic features that are missing

No, Apple will not replace iWeb.

It's gone, it's over.

Find an iWeb alternative.

But lately there are rumours of an iWeb knockoff.

http://www.iwebreplacementapp.com/

You can meet your future fellow users here :

http://www.facebook.com/easyweb

One of the great features that apparently is in great demand, and was missing in iWeb, is a whole collection of like buttons.

Well, I have to say that if you have only looked at RapidWeaver, Sandvox and Freeway Pro, then you have not looked at all the alternatives that are available.

Take a look at Flux 4 for starters at http://www.theescapers.com and also another reasonable alternative to iWeb is WebAcappella 4 that can be found at http://www.webacapella.fr.

Take a look at these before pronouncing too quickly.

Rage Software is also promoting EasyWeb as an iWeb alternative, however, if you go for this, then you need to be advised that the only way that you can get this app is by purchasing hosting from Rage Software for $99 a year. You are tied down to their hosting and can't just purchase the app and use it with another host.

I have tried out Webacappella and though it a worthy replacement for iWeb - very easy to use and you can also add drop down menus and a contact form and you can also add content in html snippets too.

Other than those two, you could also take a look at Quick n Easy Website Builder or you then need to consider looking at programmes such as DreamWeaver, which has a steeper learning curve or the Content Management Systems such as Joomla or WordPress.

You can try out both Joomla and WordPress by installing them locally on your Mac. Just download MAMP for free and you can the install both Joomla and WordPress. You should be able to host those locally too, but you do need the Apache and the Database part as well as the php.

I realise that with Flux 4, you might need to know more about coding than with other programmes such as WebAcappella, but I would have thought it was still worth a look?

Possibly not. At the moment, the Content Management System's such as Joomla and Drupal seem to be the way to go. They drag and drop too, but the only draw back there is that you do need a host/server that is CMS friendly and has one click install for Joomla, Drupal or WordPress. They are database driven, so you can do quite a bit more with password protection and member only pages if that is the route that you want to go.

A of people that I know that have commercial ventures, have recently transferred their websites to WordPress. A lot of people have migrated their sites to WordPress, for ease of use and shopping cart facilities, as well as member only pages.

I am in the process of transferring my sites over to Joomla and have just signed up for some new hosting with http://www.siteground.com, which specialise in Joomla hosting. Joomla 3 is good and easy to use - take a look here at http://joomla.org.

There are other hosts around that are also Joomla and WordPress friendly - HostExcellence etc. http://www.hostexcellence.com.

There are lots of alternatives out there if you look for them - DreamWeaver is not your only option.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Siteground Joomla Hosting Solutions expert is also the

- Web Hosting Solutions

- WordPress Hosting

- Magento Hosting

- FTP Hosting

- Email Hosting

- cPanel Hosting

- Mac Hosting

- eCommerce Hosting

- Semi Dedicated Hosting

expert.

Adobe Muse might be good, however, it is not really a viable alternative as you have no choice to purchase it outright like most other software - you need to continue to pay a monthly sub to be able to use it and most folks will not do this if they are doing the same for hosting too.

If you could purchase it outright then fair enough, but there are others out there that are better that you can purchase for a one off payment.

I have tried almost every available alternative... but still stick to iWeb. My site is over 200 pages, still growing and it works fine in all browsers. Why bother and leave iWeb? For the moment I see no reason.

Is there a reason why I would better leave iWeb? Will my site stop working?

No. It seems to have a very steep learning curve and I don't have the time to invest in a long learning process. I tried smaller alternatives to iWeb, but they don't seem to have the absolute flexibility iWeb has.

Here is my iWeb site and a howto video I did walking though the steps of creating your own layout.

http://jeffnitschke.com/Home.html

How To Create your own iWeb layouts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHVVtJ7Ka4o

1. Thanks.

2. Frankly, I have no trouble making iWeb sites. I love it.

It's connecting them to my Yahoo hosting that gives me migraines.

Direct iWeb to Yahoo has not been working, so I saved to Webcrusher, and Webcrusher to Yahoo, rarely works, and emailing to Yahoo is a 4 day black hole.

Connecting iWeb to Yahoo is the royal pain. I don't know if the problem lies in iWeb or Yahoo.

It is explained here how to publish to yahoo with iWeb.

http://help.yahoo.com//l/us/yahoo/smallbusiness/webhosting/gftp/ftps-04.html#f

And yes, if it doesn't work, it's always a bug or something else in iWeb. Never the user.

Hi Jeff,

I read your iWeb, EasyWeb and WebAcappella comparison on your blog and I have to say that I really like WebAcappella. It is easy to use and I like the drop down menus and contact form. I came to make a list and suddenly realised that a list option was not available, so that is one thing that is missing, but you can make some really great looking sites with it and I am in the process of re-building one of my iWeb sites with Web Acappella.

Not sure about EasyWeb though - Rage seem to be talking it up as if it is the next best thing, but not delivering yet. They keep saying on their Facebook page soon, but that now seems to be the end of May and June - how much longer are they going to keep pushing it back? It will have to be good to make up for all this.