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Q: From iWeb to ...

Sandbox and Wix look the best to me so far.


I have had GoDaddy.com for hosting my website and purchased my four domain names from them also. Looks like I will need to move on from GoDaddy also because most of these design programs I like include the hosting.


EVERWEB.com - $80 program software; Hosting $100 - 200 yr; didn’t like their templates, and no blog page. copying text and images from iWeb and pasting them in EverWeb. video http://www.everwebapp.com/support/iweb-to-everweb.html looks a little complicated and very slow. EverWeb supports Master Templates which means you can design your web site once and apply your site changes to every page on your site automatically. Not sure I like that. In iWeb I could use different’ templates on every page if I wanted.


SANDVOX.com - $80 program has something called Extract Content of Website...to extract the contents of an existing website into a new document. After you enter the URL of your website, Sandvox will begin crawling through your website, examine the main content of each page that it finds and create corresponding pages in your new site document.

Hopefully once the general look and feel is set up (design is chosen, site title entered, banner adjusted, etc.), adding pages and bringing content over, the bulk of a site will need to be rebuilt but still sounds like it would be easier. 

3 choices on Hosting: Multi  This plan is the “middle ground”, $144/year (which works out to $12/month), and it also includes one domain name* - with privacy. This plan includes more bandwidth (45 gigabytes transferred per month) and storage capacity (10 gigabytes). Plus, using this plan, you can use one account to host up to 10 websites (with their own unique domain names). All of your published sites count toward the plan’s bandwidth and capacity limits. Choose this plan if you will be hosting more than one website, or if your business or personal site gets too much traffic for the limits of the Single plan, or if you need more storage than the Single plan includes.


WIX.com program is FREE. has the best templates, appears easy, similar to iWeb, gives instructions for transferring.   They have four hosting plans. eCommerce is $192 a year; unlimited is $149 year, and the “combo” is $111. Can’t see much difference except eCommerce probably allows you to sell items. Domain names are free the first year about $10 after that. (recommended to get Combo it is probably enough) Template and design are tied to the hosting subscription, so you can’t take the files to another hosting provider and still expect the forms to work. Ethnoid says Wix  is mainly for folks who want a quick and easy option to get a site up online and who do not really know that much about web design or sites. (hmmm that may be me!)


Freeway Express.com - 4 star reviews on version 6.12. FREE, but looks difficult to me.


Flux4.com -  (recommended by Old Toad) $99 - Very different from iWeb; “steeper learning curve”; really is a professional web design tool.


Dreamweaver - $20 a month, $240 a year and you are still paying $20 a month additional cost. You can open your published webpages in dreamweaver with the open command in the file menu. But the cost is outrageous I think.


Need to make a decision very soon. 

iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)

Posted on Jul 17, 2016 5:49 PM

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  • by Ethmoid,Helpful

    Ethmoid Ethmoid Jul 18, 2016 9:09 AM in response to branch
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    Jul 18, 2016 9:09 AM in response to branch

    Freeway Pro/Express is no harder to learn than many others - you can try and demo of it and download the demo for free.

     

    Flux is now on Flux 6, but yes, there is a steep learning curve and it is probably more for those who know something about html/css.

     

    Wix is NOT similar to iWeb at all.  Wix is similar to other online builders such as SquareSpace, Wordpress.com etc.  You go to the Wix site and sign up and you create the name of your site and it is something like mynewsite/wix.com and you then create your site online and it is then published to the Wix servers.  If you want to you can pay an extra amount and get the adds taken off and then link your own domain name to the site that you have created there, but yes, you are correct in that you can't move it afterwards and you need to cancel your Wix membership if you want to do anything different.

     

    You could take another look at EverWeb because I think the blog pages are meant to be coming soon with version 2 that might already be out.

     

    Out of all of them, EverWeb might be the best way to go with ease of use and it is the most similar to iWeb.

     

    The other alternative is to use the CMS (Content Management Systems) which are Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress and if you already have hosting with GoDaddy, then you can just install these on whichever domain you want to with one click.

     

    Drupal is a little more complex, but Wordpress.org is good and there are lots of good free templates, but you don't have to spend that much to get a nice looking template.

     

    You don't really need to know any html or css to use the CMS either.

  • by branch,

    branch branch Jul 18, 2016 9:13 AM in response to Ethmoid
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    Jul 18, 2016 9:13 AM in response to Ethmoid

    You didn't say anything about Sandvox - that is what I am seriously considering.

  • by Ethmoid,

    Ethmoid Ethmoid Jul 19, 2016 3:47 PM in response to branch
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    Jul 19, 2016 3:47 PM in response to branch

    No, I didn't say anything about Sandbox because I don't know that much about it.  Apparently, from what I have heard, you have to use a template and cannot start a site on a blank page as you can with others such as EverWeb and Freeway Pro and you could with iWeb.

     

    I think it is better than RapidWeaver, but other than that I am not sure.

  • by Corier,

    Corier Corier Jul 19, 2016 5:18 PM in response to branch
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    Jul 19, 2016 5:18 PM in response to branch

    Can I ask you specificly what are you trying to achieve with iWeb that you aren't getting?

    Because I do everything I need with iWeb using the Html Snippets, even a mobile website is possible with a Html Snippet at iWeb.

     

    So, why do you want to change software?

    P.S- I am a "tecnofobic", i hate code and i dont understand nothing about HTML. When I need something I search for Html scripts, free or paid.

  • by Ethmoid,

    Ethmoid Ethmoid Jul 20, 2016 1:35 AM in response to Corier
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    Jul 20, 2016 1:35 AM in response to Corier

    If you look back at other posts, you would see that the Original Poster said that he was having problems with iWeb 3 quitting whilst using El Capitan, which is why he was investigating other software.

     

    Not everyone has more than one computer and not everyone is willing to downgrade to an OSX that will support iWeb.

     

    As iWeb is unsupported and is never likely to be updated now, looking for alternatives is the best solution in this case and it means that you can still run the latest OSX too.

  • by Corier,

    Corier Corier Jul 20, 2016 2:44 AM in response to Ethmoid
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    Jul 20, 2016 2:44 AM in response to Ethmoid

    Ok, I see Ethmoid, I didn't read that part on not to want to downgrade to previous OSX.
    Well, thats exactly my recommendation for branch: just downgrade to OS X Yosemite and keep using iWeb 100% smoothly - as I did.

     

    iWeb is just incredible, and some web-builders trials I have tried, iWeb stills my favorite.

  • by Ethmoid,

    Ethmoid Ethmoid Jul 23, 2016 12:51 PM in response to Corier
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    Jul 23, 2016 12:51 PM in response to Corier

    Unfortunately, iWeb is very far from incredible - it is outdated and unsupported software.