re: iWeb alternatives
Honestly, I played around quite a bit with Sandvox and while I initially liked the program, I found a lot of limitations in it too. It's great if you just want to build a basic page and you like one of their default templates. But it starts coming up short real quickly if you need more advanced changes to what they provide.
Have you taken a good look at RapidWeaver? IMHO, it's just as easy to use as Sandvox for those basic, template-based sites -- but it can be FAR more powerful of a tool because it supports 3rd. party plug-ins. Some of the add-ons for it are inexpensive but very powerful. (EG. Need to create an e-commerce type site that uses a shopping cart? They make a RapidWeaver plug-in for that.)
Here are a few cool ones out there for it:
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/31013/weaverbox
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/24332/rapidblog
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/30145/rapidalbum
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/28607/googaloom
Honestly, I played around quite a bit with Sandvox and while I initially liked the program, I found a lot of limitations in it too. It's great if you just want to build a basic page and you like one of their default templates. But it starts coming up short real quickly if you need more advanced changes to what they provide.
Have you taken a good look at RapidWeaver? IMHO, it's just as easy to use as Sandvox for those basic, template-based sites -- but it can be FAR more powerful of a tool because it supports 3rd. party plug-ins. Some of the add-ons for it are inexpensive but very powerful. (EG. Need to create an e-commerce type site that uses a shopping cart? They make a RapidWeaver plug-in for that.)
Here are a few cool ones out there for it:
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/31013/weaverbox
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/24332/rapidblog
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/30145/rapidalbum
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/28607/googaloom
One of the main things that I always look for as value in an application, though, is the prospect of continued support. Right now, I'm not yet impressed with what else is out there. (I tried using Sandvox to build a close copy of one of the sites that I use iWeb for right now, and became so frustrated so fast at what it wouldn't let me do, I trashed it immediately. While I haven't tried using it yet, watching the screen vids of Flux makes it look like an amazingly sluggish system - you have to always remember to manually update your navigation bar on each of your pages? Really?) So, I'm still looking for something that will coax me away from iWeb, but haven't found it yet. If need be, I may start looking at one of the higher-end packages...