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stay with iweb? or not

I have a video based web site that I am creating. using iweb 11 and am having much trouble getting video to run for windows users. I know much of this is the user, however it needs to work for the novice. (of course it looks great on my mac) I am using the quicktime encoding and am optimizing for streaming, from imovie. here is my question, since I am just getting started, and iweb will soon be dated, should I abandon iweb and go to some other software? In your opinions of course. Thanks for the help.

scott.

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Sep 28, 2013 2:53 PM

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Roger Wilmut1

Level 10

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Posted on Sep 28, 2013 3:06 PM

Despite iWeb's ease of use for quickly producing attractive sites, now isn't a good time to start using it. Already v2 won't work with Mountain Lion, we don't know what the situation will be with v3 and Mavericks - but it's a safe bet that eventually a system upgrade will break it.

There are lots of options - the subject has been discussed in a number of threads here and I can do no better than suggest you search for them as you will get some detailed answers and a wide range of suggestions.

My own preference, for what it's worth, would be for RapidWeaver, which I've used (though not for videos) - it's similar in many ways to iWeb (though obviously quite different in detail). However as you will find many people don't agree with that and have their own favourites.

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Joe Gramm

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Oct 1, 2013 4:25 PM in response to Old Toad

It might increase sales, but I'm not as worried about that. I can drag and drop, copy and paste my site into EasyWeb without a problem I'm sure. It might be a little time consuming rebuilding photo galleries with slideshows, but it can be done.

I've made it easy for myself with my photos. In iPhoto, I have a an iWeb Folder with Albums dating from 2002-2013 with all of my furniture pictures. So those are very well organized as to create new galleries if need be.

We shall see

stay with iweb? or not