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Steve Jobs Confirms Discontinuation of iWeb in iCloud Transition
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Nopes. None of them are a good answer at all.
Companies don't say sorry because they have removed some features as they believe that they have planned something better or its in the right direction for all.
You can't be sorry to people and dismiss your thoughts and plans for the future.
Good that he got the answer. I find it hard to believe that people are criticising it.
Damn you Apple, I hope its just a hoax. You will be pissing on a lot of people's heads if it comes out in a press release confirming it.
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This sucks....
I am capable of setting up a website (and have) from scratch, or with drupal or something, but I use iWeb for my personal resume type site (my field of work isn't computer related). It was incredibly easy and fast to update. I don't get much traffic at all, so it was hard to justify doing a site from scratch, though I want it to look professional. I sure as hell won't be moving to something like squarespace because it's massive overkill for my needs.
While iWeb will still be installed, who knows how it will function with 10.7, plus it won't be updated anymore. To be honest, the one click publishing was a big appeal of using it.
I am capable of setting up a website (and have) from scratch, or with drupal or something, but I use iWeb for my personal resume type site (my field of work isn't computer related). It was incredibly easy and fast to update. I don't get much traffic at all, so it was hard to justify doing a site from scratch, though I want it to look professional. I sure as hell won't be moving to something like squarespace because it's massive overkill for my needs.
While iWeb will still be installed, who knows how it will function with 10.7, plus it won't be updated anymore. To be honest, the one click publishing was a big appeal of using it.
Drupal is not really the most user-friendly system either. I would look into a hosted WordPress if I were you. Tons of resume style themes available. And you'd have a proper CMS... not just static html pages.
I don't get why people are so bothered.. I mean I use iWeb for my personal resume/portfolio site but just cause MobileMe will no longer host the site doesn't mean you can't use iWeb still....
Just create a website in iWeb as normal and export it to a folder and find some new hosting...
Just create a website in iWeb as normal and export it to a folder and find some new hosting...
Too bad. I thought iWeb was a great tool for someone without any web-design experience to get something out there on the internet. I suppose it wasn't entirely unforeseen since iWeb wasn't updated with iLife 11, along with iDVD which Apple surely believes is antiquated. It's curious that Apple would axe a creative piece of their iLife suite. Do they not believe customers are interested in making their own sites anymore? Do they believe there are better tools in the App Store that will receive more developer attention?
Well I suppose that just leaves iDisk and MobileMe Gallery to wonder about. MobileMe Gallery seems like it should live on in some incarnation. But iDisk seems like something Apple might scrap. Unfortunate for me who uses it everyday. Guess I'm headed to Dropbox.
Well I suppose that just leaves iDisk and MobileMe Gallery to wonder about. MobileMe Gallery seems like it should live on in some incarnation. But iDisk seems like something Apple might scrap. Unfortunate for me who uses it everyday. Guess I'm headed to Dropbox.
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I actually prefer Jobs' style. He could always just send back an auto-reply form e-mail like every other Fortune 500 CEO, but instead he replies with an actual response.
iWeb was nice for its ease of use and visual style, but it was pretty limiting if you wanted to move beyond that. But in any case it's not like the existing software will quit working, and it's darn easy to put iWeb-produced pages onto a standard web host.
Seems like the websites with the logo "Made on a Mac" are soon going to disappear
Yah, I'm a die-hard Mac fan, but iWeb never really struck me as a good solution for website creation. Sure, it allows non-techies to get a site up, but the resulting site seemed too template-like. Not my style, but that's probably because I'm a website builder by profession.
Secondly, this seems to illustrate a change in strategy for Apple, moving away from some of the more unique advantages of a Mac to a more generic platform-agnostic set of services... I don't know, it's a mixed bag for me.
iWeb sucked, I'm glad its gone, I cannot see any web designer or developer ever using it, simply because it's not a text editor.. I know it wasn't targeted towards web designers, at least I hope not ..
I'd be great if Apple came out with something that is a text editor, but I don't think anything can replace Coda for me
.. I'd be great if Apple came out with something that is a text editor, but I don't think anything can replace Coda for me
iWeb sucked, I'm glad its gone, I cannot see any web designer or developer ever using it, simply because it's not a text editor.. I know it wasn't targeted towards web designers, at least I hope not
I'd be great if Apple came out with something that is a text editor, but I don't think anything can replace Coda for me
Nothing will replace good ol' BBEdit for me
Been serving me well for 15 years now. I've tried Coda and Textmate and Espresso... but always go back to BBEdit + CSSEdit (hopefully MacRabbit updates it sometime this decade). But really... you're talking apples and oranges. iWeb was never meant to be a development tool at all. Far from it. And there would be no reason for Apple to create professional web development tools.iWeb FTP
You don't have to publish to a folder and learn an FTP program.
Publish directly out of iWeb to any FTP web host. The only retraining is to read Help.
Site Publishing Settings
Change Publish to: (pull down) from "MobileMe" to "FTP Server"
FTP Server Settings
Server address: www.YourDomain.com
User name:
Password:
Directory/Path: to the domain folder (ie: /www/YourDomainFolder)
Your FTP web host will give you the path if you can't figure it out.
"Test Connection"
You don't have to publish to a folder and learn an FTP program.
Publish directly out of iWeb to any FTP web host. The only retraining is to read Help.
Site Publishing Settings
Change Publish to: (pull down) from "MobileMe" to "FTP Server"
FTP Server Settings
Server address: www.YourDomain.com
User name:
Password:
Directory/Path: to the domain folder (ie: /www/YourDomainFolder)
Your FTP web host will give you the path if you can't figure it out.
"Test Connection"
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And you can still use it. Then ftp it to your web provider and you will be fine. Its not something most people use. And there are plenty of services that will do it for you for cheap.
Yeah we host games there and they suck >.> we got DDOS attacks and they're like "We don't whats up"
I guess YMMV. I've had dedicated hosts and shared accounts on there for years and they've always been top notch for me with no security issues.
Never used Mobile Me for iWeb (or anything else). Always used FTP to put my pages on my own web hosting company. But I found the product very useful and easy. This was one of the big pluses when I moved to a Mac a few years ago. I was hoping that they would update the program and make it more powerful.
While I have designed web pages with other products before, even building pages from scratch, I always liked the simplicity and ease of iWeb, and it still had some power. Apple has been touting iLife as a good standard feature of every Mac for a while. Wonder how many more legs they'll knock out of it in the near future.
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This I do not like.
But as long as I can keep it for GFX work I suppose I don't really mind.
This I do not like.
But as long as I can keep it for GFX work I suppose I don't really mind.
