06-16-2011, 04:03 PM
Just a quick rant; have spent the last several days messing around with both Sandvox and RapidWeaver, as a replacement for quick website creation, to replace iWeb. Yeah, I know iWeb will still work for a while but I'm jumping ship now. Getting pissed about the loss of both MobileMe hosting and the end of development of iWeb. Then again, Apple is pretty flakey when it comes to software support so I guess I shouldn't have sunk my business eggs into this basket.
One thing I love about iWeb is that I can do some really quick and clean site setups. I like the image masking, something I've not found in any of the recommended alternatives.
And a big ding against RapidWeaver; it passes itself off as WYSIWYG editing, but not really. Or maybe it is; I think of iWeb as WYSIWYG, and RapidWeaver has a taste of that but I guess when I'm looking for is more drag-and-drop style editing -- that is, editing of the site as it looks. Whereas I kind of took to Sandvox right off the bat, RapidWeaver just left me flustered every time.
I played around with squarespace but I'm not getting what I need out of it, either. I haven't played around with Freeway yet, so I guess I'll try that next.
One thing I love about iWeb is that I can do some really quick and clean site setups. I like the image masking, something I've not found in any of the recommended alternatives.
And a big ding against RapidWeaver; it passes itself off as WYSIWYG editing, but not really. Or maybe it is; I think of iWeb as WYSIWYG, and RapidWeaver has a taste of that but I guess when I'm looking for is more drag-and-drop style editing -- that is, editing of the site as it looks. Whereas I kind of took to Sandvox right off the bat, RapidWeaver just left me flustered every time.
I played around with squarespace but I'm not getting what I need out of it, either. I haven't played around with Freeway yet, so I guess I'll try that next.