iWeb 09
Has anyone had the chance to put iWeb '09 through its paces yet? Does it contain any interesting new features other than FTP publishing and the new widget types? (I was hoping for blog categories, tags and RSS feeds for comments, but I'm not holding my breath...

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Just installed iLife 09 and am using iWeb 09.
1. You have to re-publish your whole site the first time.
2. Overall no big changes in terms of available templates
3. Nice additions here and there...
Things that I am waiting to check out after publishing is complete:
- facebook announcement of the updating process. This is quite useful for me (private blog) as I don't have to send mails all over the place to let people know something has changed.
Widgets in general seem interesting. There is now a widget that allows you to insert a MobileMe gallery in the webpage, it gets displayed in a small square with the images of the gallery fading one into the other. Clicking opens the web gallery.
Overall I expected a better integration between iPhoto (Aperture in my case) and iWeb, such as the ability to publish albums directly to iWeb and not via MobileMe gallery. Or also the ability to link iWeb directly with the mobile me gallery without the widget (such as it can be done now by manually creating the album).
Other widgets include:
- Google AdSense widget
- Countdown widget (pretty useless if you ask me)
- Google Maps widget (was already there)
- iSight movie widget
- YouTube widget
Overall iWeb has changed very little, but the new widget remind me of Aperture's plug-in architecture. I guess we will see more widgets coming and maybe even thrid party widgets.
What I still miss is a tighter integration with Aperture. My blog serves me mainly to inform about technology and travel as well as a showcase of my pictures.
The pictures aspect of iWeb has been, in my opinion, underestimated.
Overall nice addition, but doesn't justify upgrading to iLife 09 alone. Different thing for iPhoto and iMovie, which fully justify the upgrade price with their, albeit not perfectly implemented, new features.
No blog categories and no rss feed for comments...