Is iWeb '08 that much better than iWeb '06? RAPIDWEAVER?

[h linamen]

Is iWeb '08 that much better than iWeb '06? I want to use iWeb to build a simple website for our church and I have the '06 version. Is that good enough?

I did just recently get RAPIDWEAVER also. Which would you use?

[roshi]

iWeb is better if you want to use your dot mac account and don't want to buy a domain name and pay monthly for hosting.

Rapidweaver is better if you do have your own domain name for the church, and can pay the $10 a month or whatever it is for hosting. Nonprofits get special deals.

[clay]

you can also use iweb to publish to your own non-.mac web server

[JEBB]

You might also look at Google Page Creator:

[jdc]

you will need add ons for rapidweaver to make it do basic things, like draw a box...

[davester]

I don't understand Roshi's comment, since you can use your own domain name with or without a dotmac account. Doing it with .mac is easier in iWeb '08 than '06, but hackable in '06. Personally, I'd say that issue has no bearing on whether you choose iWeb or Rapidweaver. Here are my observations:

1. Rapidweaver is much more advanced than iWeb, and also much more difficult to use. A non-user can probably create a nice site in iWeb within an hour of starting...not true for RW.

2. iWeb '08 has several enhancements over '06. http://www.apple.com/ilife/iweb/#overview These are listed here:

Easy use of your own domain

Web galleries for photos that are better than the photo galleries in '06

Adding web widgets (e.g. google maps, ads, etc) obtained from other sites onto your pages

If you don't care about these, then '06 will be fine.

[jdc]

you can use your own domain with 06 -- theres a freeware app called easy iweb publisher to take care of it

http://www.plyxim.com/

hosting is far far cheaper than $10 per month, i use hostrocket, $5 a month

if you dont mind spending money, you might look at freeway from softpress

[richorlin]

I must be dense or something, because I can't get Rapidweaver to do anything useful. The tutorials are not very good or maybe the better ones are hidden someplace I don't know about.

If you want to do a simpe website, then iWeb '08 is for you.

[jdc]

[quote richorlin]I must be dense or something, because I can't get Rapidweaver to do anything useful. The tutorials are not very good or maybe the better ones are hidden someplace I don't know about.

If you want to do a simpe website, then iWeb '08 is for you.
again, even to draw a box, you need add ons

[john-o]

Question about iWeb '08:

I use it to publish a site for our MUG, and it bugs me that it creates an odd folder structure when I ask it to publish to a folder... It creates a lone "index.html" page alongside a folder (named the same as the site address) with the whole site inside. The odd thing is that the folder includes another "index.html" page, which I believe is virtually identical to the one outside the folder! WTF?

The site wasn't working right when I first uploaded it (don't remember what the symptoms were though), and my ISP said it was due to the odd folder structure. As soon as we just put everything that was in the site-named folder on the server by itself, everything worked fine. That's what I've been doing since, but it bugs me that I have to mess with it like that whenever I want to publish a change...

Hope that paragraph makes some sense....

Anyone here with enough iWeb experience to explain why it does that? Or, better yet, how to make it stop???

Many TIA,
John