iWeb Replacement

I too, am looking for an iWeb replacement that will allow importing all my sites without rebuilding them all over. Yes, I do know iWeb is gone. None of the previous comments deal with importing existing sites built on iWeb. I could use an old Dream Weaver (CS3). Anyone have experience with this?

You can open your published webpages in dreamweaver with the open command in the file menu.

Or create a site in DW.

Here's how I did it with iDisk (MobileMe). You can do it with any server :

http://www.wyodor.net/ContriDW/Connecting_Dreamweaver.html

See also you other post.

No need to abort iWeb. It is still the best website editor/creator, bar none! If you go to "machighway.com" you can upload your iWeb sites directily onto their server without any conversion or changes needed. It works seamlessly with iWeb, at least until a future OS X version leaves iWeb orphaned.

The cost is minimal (compared to other hosting sites) and they cater to Mac users, primarily. I have used every available web software for Mac over the years and can tell you there is nothing as easy and as effective as iWeb. Killing iWeb was one of the biggest mistakes Apple has made since the introduction of OS X.

If you want to edit html or customize your pages for greater control or details, for whatever reasons, then you can look at one of the other web design apps for Mac. You're not going to like them as well. I used to use Dreamweaver only because it offered WYSIWYG editing, but I dumped it when Adobe took control, and iWeb came along. It also requires JAVA to install, which is a "crock" of $@#%. Macromedia did it right, but Adobe sealed their fate when they abandoned Apple and moved to Windows only.

Hey, Adobe if any of you are listening . . . you screwed up royal. Want to make it up to Apple users? Keep iWeb alive (without Adobeizing it of course).

Actually what you stated about Adobe being Windows only, is NOT true.

Look at the Adobe website and you will see there that there is Mac support for programmes and Adobe Muse supports Mac as does DreamWeaver.

AnetteC wrote:

I'm wondering the same as Larr2000 - will we be able to import our iWeb sites into EasyWeb without having to rebuild them too much?

You wouldn't want to import your iWeb site into EasyWeb because you will want to take advantage of all the new and better features available.

A lot of Beta testers are rebuilding their iWeb sites in EasyWeb by pasting in the text and dragging in assets such as images, movies etc.

EasyWeb allows the user to inject any type of code into the correct place in the HTML doc - unlike iWeb's rather unintuitive HTML Snippet - so you would want to recreate your widgets in EasyWeb.

The self generating drop down menu allows the user to insert different names in the menu from that of the page file name. It also automatically corrects page file names to the right format by removing capital letters and inserting hyphens in spaces.

The page inspector allows the user to insert page title and description for SEO. The aplication also makes it easy to use heading tags for all h1, h2, h3, etc so that SEO is much improved.

EasyWeb has many of the features that iWeb users have been requesting (and didn't get) and produces more efficient code with faster downloading pages.

Any iWeb user will find the basics of EasyWeb simple to understand and use although there's obviously and little learning curve to get to grips with the more advanced features.

As a former iWeb user, I can say that EasyWeb is all the things that I wished iWeb had been.

Do you have a link for EasyWeb, because searching easyWeb on the net looks like too common. A lot of thing come out without finding the software

AND yes it's a big mistake from Apple to stop iWeb. This was a big advantage to buy a Mac over a PC for many people.

iLife look like abandoned too

Do a search for Rage Software - they are the ones who are developing EasyWeb. Send them an e-mail and say that you would like to become a beta tester and they will normally let you. You can then download the beta version and start building a website using all the features and then give them good feedback in the forums and they keep the beta version up to date with all the bug fixes that testers have identified.

I have to say that I like Webacappella. It is very easy to use and has most of the things that iWeb does not.

It has built in SEO and drop down navigation menus as well as an html snippet where you can enter your own code.

You can make master pages/templates for your header and footer pages so that these don't alter and they all look the same. There are text boxes and shapes, but some things that I found annoying was that there is no way to wrap text or enter bullet points. I e-mailed support over this and they said that the only way to use bullet points was in an html snippet, which I complained about, as iWeb had these built in.

Apart from that, I like it a lot and have re-built several websites with it. You can publish to a folder and then uplod to a server/host of your choice too.

I'm using Webacappella right now. It's an easy site designer with lots of great extras. I agree with you about bullets and wrap text. I've used an older copy of Adobe GoLive to do the html as a workaround.

The problem I'm having is all my page are refresing with every menu click. They are all from one master template, exact same elements! I just want the header and background to stay static. Everytime I click on a menu link the whole page refreshes. It' driving me crazy!

Hmmm, EasyWeb or Webacappella?! I like the fact that Webacappella has been around for a while and has been tested, while EasyWeb is still in beta version. Also, I want to keep my host which I'm very happy with.

One last question: How do they work with IE10 (my and iWeb's nemesis)?!

I really like Easyweb so far. Create's really great looking sites. They are retina compatible so they look really sharp on iphones and my retina Macbook, something I haven't found in other drag and drop builders.

I believe you can use any host with either software.

Webacappella was pretty good but Easyweb is more familair to me and much easier to use.

AnetteC wrote:

Hmmm, EasyWeb or Webacappella?! I like the fact that Webacappella has been around for a while and has been tested, while EasyWeb is still in beta version.

Having now tried Webacappella I would say that it has quite a ways to go to catch up with EasyWeb.

The interface is slick but annoying and not very well organised. It doesn't appear to be very stable and crashed on me a few times - but maybe that's just the trial version?

I'm not impressed by the code it produces and can't believe that the default audio player is flash! I guess these French guys have their heads stuck in the sand as far as playing media files is concerned.

It is certainly better than iWeb in that it is being actively developed but it has inherited a lot of iWeb's redundancy.

I didn't notice if it had any facility for a smart phone version of the site. Did I miss that?

For the more advanced user, EasyWeb has it beaten hands down with it's method of code injection and the way in which it creates the HTML doc.

Given that EasyWeb is still in Beta, if I wanted a web design app right now I think I would go for this one...

http://www.quickandeasywebbuilder.com/features.html

It sure is a lot cheaper and I found it easier to work with.

That's great thanks. I'd like to give you 10 points for solving my question but the buttons aren't displaying :-(

BTW, I found this on Webacappella's site:

It still looks like Webacappella for me, but I'll try the free version first. I'll let you know how I get on!

BTW, I found this on Webacappella's site:

WebAcappella is perfectly compatible with different mobile devices, thanks to HTML5 rendering.

HTML5 rendering doesn't make for a mobile compatible website! The developers of Sandvox used the same meaningless sales pitch.

EasyWeb allows users to create a smart phone version of their site in the same domain and inserts the code to redirect visitors using these devices.

Erik, I think you will find, like I did, that your site now won't work with the recently released Explorer 10. At least none of my 5 sites work properly anymore. And no solution seems to be available, at least nothing has been suggested on this forum. So I am looking for alternative software.