iWeb vs. RapidWeaver

Unless I'm totally behind the times, your site looks very un-iWeb. I guess you must have worked quite hard to get your own look. Not easy with iWeb.

I've only used the built in templates. It's annoying how you have to duplicate pages if you want to repeat the modifications you've made to a template. Even text colour, etc. I don't do enough web design, but RW looked good and its (promising) future seems clearer.

I wonder if iWeb will get an iOS version, maybe simultaneously with a MobileMe/iLife update? This may explain why nothing has happened recently because apparently Apple just move people onto different projects when they get a new idea rather than employing randomers.

I agree, it is frustrating not knowing what's happening with iWeb. Good luck, whichever path you choose.

 

I think its safe to say that iWeb has been discontinued.

 

Or it will be brought back as a rewritten application (Like iMovie '08) and its just taken them a long while.

 

Rapidweaver is not a replacement for iWeb; it's an entirely different kind of product.

iWeb allows you to design webpages visually and does the coding for you. You start with one of their templates, but from there on out it's widely customizable.

Rapidweaver allows you to either do 100% code or 100% template, pretty much. You can't drag things around visually and have it code for you.

Honestly, if coding is what you want to do, Rapidweaver is a better solution. In iWeb, to do this you have to save to local folder, and modify the code from there. Not much you can do in-application.

But if you're primarily design-minded, there's no substitute for iWeb. Rapidweaver's templates are very poor in terms of customization potential, and you can't do it by dragging and dropping. It all has to be done by clicking checkboxes, or adjusting numbers, or typing things in. And you certainly can't view your webpage as you're working on it. In order to have anything close to this, you have to purchase an additional $25 add-on, and even then, it's still not iWeb.

I see Rapidweaver as more of a Dreamweaver competitor.

 

Need help making decision

Greetings - I'm not a web designer, I'm a graphic artist, writer, publisher, artist, and freelancer who has used iWeb for my own personal website happily for several years now. The software I like the most, that seems the most intuitive for me is InDesign, which I adore. Two things have come up recently: 1) I want to be able to use PayPal on my site (have a shopping cart) and 2) I'm trying to help a nonprofit health clinic in the mountains in the somewhat remote area where I live get their website redesigned and easier to maintain (they have had a guy who would code the whole thing, but with all the budget cuts they can't afford that any more) as inexpensively as possible. I'll be volunteering much of my time.

I could build them an iWeb site in a few days, though they want to be able to accept donations online, and my understanding is that iWeb doesn't support shopping carts. But I've visited your site, BreuerEditor, which I think is amazing, and I see that you are able to support commercial transactions on your site.

I purchased RapidWeaver to rebuild my site, but I'm not finding the documentation to be very helpful nor the software very intuitive, but I'm willing to keep working at it (I purchased an ebook from a guy on the RealMac forum and haven't yet made my way through it; but any other resources anyone can suggest would be great).

The IT guy at the clinic suggested DotNetNuke which I've been trying to learn, but I have to say, I'm hating it for a number of reasons.

I humbly admit that I know no code. And I'm not, as I said, a web designer. But I don't have the $$ and neither does this clinic to hire a real web designer. What would your recommendations be for both my site and the clinic's site? iWeb (is there a way to build a shopping cart in??), Rapidweaver (any good documentation? I don't do well with video tutorials), and/or keep trying to figure out DNN?

Thanks very much!!

Oh--my current website for anyone who wants to look at it (nothing spectacular like SeaLightEntertainment, but I'm reasonably happy with it): www.keswickhousepublishers.com.