06-16-2011, 04:41 PM
Ken Sp. wrote:
iWeb will continue to work as a web design tool. The only part that MAY break with the demise of MobileMe is the ease of uploading the website.
I have many websites in iWeb, and have some upload to MobileMe and some to other web hosts.
The one button publish works just fine, the only hard part is configuring the path to upload or "FTP" the file.
Once configured for each website you make you can still one button publish by pushing the publish button.
iCloud will not break iWeb, just make it a little harder to configure the first time.
That being said-It appears that iWeb is a dead end, but it works in Lion. I also am looking for alternatives for myself and clients. Apple will likely kill it, but it seems that they may offer something new, that works on the iPad or have a completely web based solution like SquareSpace.
Was kind of hoping that was why iWeb wasn't getting updated; that there was a big HTML5/online version in the works, especially when I kept reading so much about the whole iCloud thing. Killing MobileMe hosting was pretty much the last nail in the coffin for iWeb. Happy to hear it works under Lion, at least for the time being. Maybe in the next 12 months one of the current site-design guys, or a new player, will make something that captures iWeb's ease of use. Again, Sandvox comes pretty close but it's still clunky compared to iWeb, IMO.
BTW, how do you handle multiple site uploads, given iWeb's singular "omniscient" site window/setup? I have about a dozen sites (my main business one and a handful of mini client sites, similar to the one in my example) all under the same banner, as it were. (I seem to recall an add-on that allowed this, but I'm blanking out.)
Still holding out hope for something new from Apple but, given their track record with this (what is this, the second or third website app they've killed?), I'm not sure I'm going to trust them again.