Mavericks was just announced today and before I even think about updating to the newest platform, I need to know if it will be compatible with IWeb or will I be forced to look elsewhere for web software.
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iWeb is dead and it only works properly under Snow Leopard. Even then, a lot of the widgets are defunct.
It is way past time when you should be using a relacement - not just looking for one.
If you want to continue using iWeb, you should have it on an external firewire drive running Snow Leopard and boot from that when you want to use the app.
Web browsers are making use of advances in technology but iWeb is not being updated to take advantage of this.
I haven't been waiting and I have been researching but none of the software compares to the ease of IWeb. I did find one but I've been reluctant to move into that software. By the way, I have been using IWeb with Mountain Lion and it works fine for my needs. But If Mavericks really closes it out, then I figured I would move on.
I have been beta testing Rage Software's EverWeb since its inception and you won't find another application that is a similar to iWeb than it.
It has far more advanced features than iWeb even at this stage and creates much more efficient code and therefore faster down loading pages.
Find out more about the app and download a trial version HERE.
This is exactly the same software that I have been researching and I do like it. I have decided to buy it if I can no longer use IWeb. I do have the last beta version and even created my website with it and I do like it. Thank you for confirming my research.
Yes. iWeb 3 works with Mavericks.
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Great!
I still use iWeb because it's STILL the easiest to use WYSIWYG web design program out there from all the one's I've tried, and I've tried A LOT of them. I'll check out EverWeb and see how I like it.
Yes iWeb is outdated and some of the features don't work, but there are a lot of work arounds with HTML Snippets to make pretty powerful and professional looking websites even by today's standards.
I know I should probably move on to a responsive cross-platform design by now, but whenever I look at Wordpress templates and the like they're always so boxy looking, even the "modern" ones that try to hide it.
Here's my main website created through iWeb. Not perfect, but good enough until I find a better option:
That's a great looking web site, Justin!
EverWeb requires you use their hosting. That's a deal breaker. Glad I'll be able to use iWeb at least another year. 🙂
EverWeb does NOT require that you use their hosting. The app can be bought on its own and you can publish anywhere you want.
Okay. They've changed their policy then. That's very good news. I'll check it out. Thanks for the heads up, Roddy.
iWeb works with Mavericks, so it will continue to be useable for a while longer. 🙂
I'm happy to report that I downloaded Mavericks this morning onto my MacBook Pro and IWeb was there when it rebooted and seems to have left everything intact. I also like the new Mavericks so far and had absolutely no problems with the download or afterward. Thanks Apple.
I run iWeb with Mountain Lion and have zero issues. My site has over 40 pages and I have no intention of recreating it from scratch. From what I'm reading today it looks as if it will continue to work in Mavericks.
Update: I am having uploading my IWeb site to my hosting site. I keep getting a publishing error and also audio files don't seem to want to upload. May be time to move on. I'm working with my site publisher to try and figure out what the problem is, but so far no luck.
Have you tried using the File ➙ Publish Entire Site menu option?
Otherwise publish your site to a folder on your hard drive and use a 3rd party FTP client like Cyberduck, Transmit or YummyLite to upload the files. Many users have had problem with iWeb's built in FTP client and have solved the problem by the above.
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Yes, as Old Toad suggested: I published the entire site to a folder on my desktop and then used Yummy Lite to upload it. Once I created a working connection I've had no problem with the Publish button in iWeb.
Does anyone know if IWeb will be compatibile with Mavericks?
