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Steve Jobs Confirms Discontinuation of iWeb in iCloud Transition
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I use my website as a simple placeholder for my Microsoft Exchange address so I can use my personalized email address along with my MobileMe (iCloud) hosting for other push functions. I used iWeb to simply place a single (ad-free) picture on my website. This is an elaborate and expensive solution to just get a personalized email address. If iCloud brought personalized email addresses my problem would be much simpler to solve.
In the meantime, does anyone know of an iWeb replacement available in the Mac App Store?
I use my website as a simple placeholder for my Microsoft Exchange address so I can use my personalized email address along with my MobileMe (iCloud) hosting for other push functions. I used iWeb to simply place a single (ad-free) picture on my website. This is an elaborate and expensive solution to just get a personalized email address. If iCloud brought personalized email addresses my problem would be much simpler to solve.
In the meantime, does anyone know of an iWeb replacement available in the Mac App Store?
This makes me very unhappy. It's the primary reason I've bought and renewed my .mac account every year. I have invested hundreds of hours creating my pages and the thought of starting over makes me more than slightly angry. I can guarantee you that I will invest $0 in iCloud.
No he didn't hate it and he never cussed out the creators.
He called them out on the detail that launching new iPhone hardware, software AND MobileMe at the same time was doomed to fail and it did. But he never dissed the actual service
It sucks
I stopped using iWeb but at one point I loved it, and put a lot of time in on my site. I feel fir those who need to change. I'm not a "real" site builder so iWeb was great. I would assume rapid weaver will be gone too. This all is going to cause some stir of problems that simply use MobileMe as their domain. Im already learning more programs at the moment then I want to, but I need to. I was going to jump to rapidweaver last month, good thing I didn't. Plus what about companies that use MobileMe and iWeb. So tech companies like rapidweaver are going to fail, loose jobs (if I understand it correctly), and when I started my tiny video transfer and editing business need to learn something fast. I no longer use iWeb for business, but the idea of the family pack to save money is gone.
Hope us non HTML people can find a nice cheap place to host sites for the same amount of money, and ease of use.
I stopped using iWeb but at one point I loved it, and put a lot of time in on my site. I feel fir those who need to change. I'm not a "real" site builder so iWeb was great. I would assume rapid weaver will be gone too. This all is going to cause some stir of problems that simply use MobileMe as their domain. Im already learning more programs at the moment then I want to, but I need to. I was going to jump to rapidweaver last month, good thing I didn't. Plus what about companies that use MobileMe and iWeb. So tech companies like rapidweaver are going to fail, loose jobs (if I understand it correctly), and when I started my tiny video transfer and editing business need to learn something fast. I no longer use iWeb for business, but the idea of the family pack to save money is gone.
Hope us non HTML people can find a nice cheap place to host sites for the same amount of money, and ease of use.
Here's an idea Steve: iDesign - a suite of apps for designing websites, publications, brochures. Design Studio - pro version to compete with the likes of Adobe Creative Suite. All the power of CS5 in a much easier to use package for a fraction of the price. Change everything like you did with Final Cut.
If you run a small business like me there is nada between all the sub £100 simple web design packages and the likes of CS5 or Quark at approx £1000. There is a huge gap in the middle.
If you run a small business like me there is nada between all the sub £100 simple web design packages and the likes of CS5 or Quark at approx £1000. There is a huge gap in the middle.
Well, it's not like iWeb was ever any good to begin with. Can't say I'm surprised. I'm more surprised that people actually used it.
I read an interview with one of the developers of Hypercard, and he said that (in retrospect) had Apple been network centric instead of box centric at the time, that HC would have been the original web browser. I’m not sure if that claim is hyperbole or not, but it certainly was a versatile application that was usable by those without any technical knowledge yet advanced enough for more savvy users. Apparently there are clones of it out there today, but I haven’t used any of them.
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Fair enough, but it seems like the only thing you can buy is storage (much like you could in MobileMe).
why not just upload it to another web host and continue to use iWeb to edit them? nobody is coming to delete stuff off your computer, are they?
I think that your iDesign idea is a good one and would be geared to the average consumer who wants a tool to easily express them self. But I dont see Apple competing with Adobe CS. Im guessing that they dont see the value of using resources to jump in that race.
A problem that Id have with an iDesign is likely the same I have with iLife. Namely that the app manages the content like iOS apps do. I prefer to work in a project centric way (across all file types) instead of an app centric way and like the full availability of the OS file manager.
Im not pleased that iCloud (for photos) will be integrated with iPhoto instead of the file manager directly like it will with Windows. I also dont like how the templates in iDVD are pretty corny and not customizable to avoid using all of the song and dance that just takes up disk space. I realize that Apples consumer apps are about ease of use rather than choice, but ugh.
I only toyed with iWeb, but quickly found that it didnt serve my needs. Squarespace is pretty slick, but its a web based app which has its plusses and minuses. Hopefully some day (soon) Apple will add an iLife app that in addition to allowing the user to create simple web sites as well as blogs, e-zines, and e-books, or any combination of those and be easily publishable to a variety of hosts. But I doubt that Apple will create this, again because it will offer too much choice.
EXACTLY the same situation I'm in. My Macbook runs perfectly fine, and if my machine can't run Lion, and iCloud won't work on Snow Leopard (for syncing calendars and contacts), then it's essentially an orphaned machine, even though it doesn't have to be.
Hoping there might be third party solutions for iCal and Contacts on Snow Leopard supporting iCloud, but I doubt it.
For the record, I know HTML coding. I've been HTML coding for going on twenty years. That doesn't mean that I like to, not when tools exist that can provide me with WYSIWYG UI, making it much, much easier to get a simple site to look exactly how I want it to in a fraction of the time.
Incidentally, iWeb was never a website hosting platform. As a website creation tool, it had shown some promise early on, but without further development, it just isn't worth continuing to invest time and energy in. And, as for your referenced "infinite number of" alternative tools, I would strongly disagree with this. Looking at what iWeb is, there are very few alternative tools in its same category. iWeb is an offline, WYSIWYG website creation tool that functions very much like a page layout tool. In this category, I've found only two alternatives (a FAR cry from an "infinite number"), those being Flux and Sandvox. The much applauded RapidWeaver fails, as it is not a true WYSIWYG environment. Services like Squarespace or WordPress fail because they are online environments. So, for people who want an offline, WYSIWYG website creation tool for creating nice simple websites, there simply aren't that many good alternatives.
i was hoping of a big update to version 4.0.
i guess thats a load of s*** now..
damn it Jobs! WTF!
i guess thats a load of s*** now..
damn it Jobs! WTF!