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iWeb Alternatives

dgrizzell

dgrizzell

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Jul 10, 2008
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Nashville, TN
I've been charged with reworking our university's student government website. I've already made a new website with iWeb and it looks pretty good but it could be better. The majority of iWeb's themes and widgets are for personal websites.

I'm trying to find an alternative to iWeb that allows me to do more but doesn't require me to know any coding languages.
 
wordpress.org
or wordpress alternatives

note that you have to get caching solution or a powerful server if you want to run these type of dynamic web sites

My site is on wordpress.
 
Well, I have access to the school's FTP server (a subdirectory of course that the website is to be hosted on). You can view it here. It's pretty bland and most of the iWeb themes are too much for an education website. It needs to be simple but look really good. I just wish there was something as easy as iWeb but with more features.
 
I'd shy away from iWeb for anything commercial. iWeb really doesn't generate SEO friendly code. Scroll down a bit in this forum and you'll see a thread about rapidweaver. That's a more powerful but easy to use app. It as more plugins and themes then iWeb. It offers a higher level of flexibility and customization but not sacrificing its ease of use. They offer a trial version so I recommend downloading the trial and check them out. They also have a very active forum on that site as well, so you can ask them questions or get help if need be.
 
maflynn said:
I'd shy away from iWeb for anything commercial. iWeb really doesn't generate SEO friendly code. Scroll down a bit in this forum and you'll see a thread about rapidweaver. That's a more powerful but easy to use app. It as more plugins and themes then iWeb. It offers a higher level of flexibility and customization but not sacrificing its ease of use. They offer a trial version so I recommend downloading the trial and check them out. They also have a very active forum on that site as well, so you can ask them questions or get help if need be.
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+1 for RapidWeaver - similar to iWeb in that it's drag and drop images and no need for knowledge of code. You need to get some of the good plug ins though..
 
numbersyx said:
+1 for RapidWeaver - similar to iWeb in that it's drag and drop images and no need for knowledge of code. You need to get some of the good plug ins though..
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Blocks is the #1 plug-in you need. You could probably get away with no other ones but this is a no-brainer. It really gives you the same level of drag and drop ability as iWeb.
 
trailsnet said:
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Plug-ins are applets that extend the functionality of an application. RapidWeaver has a lot of them.


Suggestion, please use the messagebox to enter your question and not the title. People cannot quote your title.
 
I don't want to start a new thread...

I'm working on my first site, i'm a little disappointed with iwebs lack of "profesional" look.

I'm aiming for something with the following taste...

http://hemaxlandscaping.com



Is rapidweaver still your top pick?
 
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