Q: Creating website
Hello everyone!
I want to TRY driving website. I have MacBook with iWeb and I know it's no longer supported. I don't know if I should try doing it in iWeb as I don't know if I even know how to take care of site, or download some other programme? For my half-2010 darling (with Yosemite), every programe more means longer work but if it may be easier (to export for example) I'm ready to install. I wrote "TRY" because I'm newbie and I'm interested only in free solutions so Eveweb or so is not for me. I know it's possible to work with wordpress on mac but I found only pay host sites which allows that. I love apple way of making easy apps like iWeb but i don't want having problems with page update.
I read forum and found only old topics, pay apps etc.
MacBook
Posted on Mar 26, 2016 12:00 PM
Unfortunately, if you are serious about this, then you will have to pay for something along the line because it is not possible to create a website without paying for something.
If you want a new website creation programme such as EverWeb, then you will have to pay - there is nothing free there unless you count iWeb which came with your Mac.
There is free hosting yes, but if you want to use WordPress.org to build your site, then you cannot use free hosting for this, you need to pay for hosting.
Your only other alternative to build your site for free is to use WordPress.com. WordPress.com is free and you can create your site, but the only disadvantage here is that the site will be published on the WordPress servers, so you will have your username.wordpress.com. This is done online and you just create it by accessing the internet - no need for any files on your Mac and you don't need to upload any files - just connect to the internet and log into your site and away you go.
There are other online site builders that are free too - Wix.com is another and also Weebly.com and there are others, but again, your site will be published to their servers, so you have your username.ix.com etc., but if you don't mind that rather than having your own domain name, then that is okay.
Other than that, you will either have to pay for a new application for website creation or pay for hosting, so not free unless you use the online site builders.
My recommendation is that you don't use iWeb though - there is no point in starting a project with an application that is unsupported.
Posted on Mar 26, 2016 11:21 PM