It's good they have the feature, but there always seemed to be some issue. So, the HTML snippets were really starting to bother me in iWeb. Colors are not easily modifiable in templates.Adding HTML snippets for things like comments and trackbacks didn't get the positioning quite right.Not easy to add things like Google Analytics to every single page.Couldn't find a template to reflect my personal tastes.The templates I focused on didn't have enough width for me to drop in the HTML snippets I wanted such as a Google search bar.Adding HTML snippets that don't generate any visuals (hidden code) seem to cause some web browsers to display a big white block.Templates seem to be really hard to modify/tweak (at least for me) because there seems to be a lot of reliance on the perfect sizing and positioning of the image assets. Mac, a lot of features are crippled (sometimes needlessly) (I'm a developer, so I like putting these things into revision control, plus I've been tempted to try to do distributed development and merge via Mercuial or Git.)īut here are the problems and things I didn't like about iWeb: File format contains all the individual files that make up the website instead of a single opaque data file.Nice search bar (though it doesn't work unless you use.Fancy shapes and shadows (though not all web browsers can render this).Really good support for resizing images and also scaling/positioning images within a constrained mask region.Really good drag-and-drop support for images.A place holder for an image for each blog entry (and the image is scaled down on the main page, presumably saving bandwidth). A 'Read More' link on the truncated entries from the top-level page.links to the previous and next entries on each page.a table-list with scrollbar for each blog entry (which is good if you generate a lot of entries).Nice blogging feature down to certain details such as.The templates were pretty (though maybe too exotic for my personality).The Google AdSense 'Web Widget' was a really nice touch.There are many things I like about iWeb, but I quickly hit a lot of the limitations which started becoming a huge nuisance. But iWeb came with my computer (a part of iLife), so I thought I would give that a try first. Now that I've started building a website and realized I didn't want to hand-craft it from the ground up, I decided a tool was in order. At the time, I wasn't doing any web sites, so I wasn't thinking about a purchase, but was impressed with the tool and kept it in the back of my mind in case I ever needed such a thing. Well, a little history: I attended an early session of CocoaHeads a year or two back where Dan Wood of Karelia gave a talk on Sandvox, and spoke of many of the implementation details, such as Core Data and WebKit. From my naive viewpoint, both programs look very similar from a feature set perspective. Like iWeb, it uses prebuilt templates to do things, and you basically just substitute your own content. Apparently this type of bad luck has happened to them before with a search product called Watson in which Apple soon introduced Sherlock. In fact, it actually launched a little before iWeb was announced so the folks at Karelia had the misfortune of seeing their innovative product suddenly have a direct competitor from Apple almost overnight. Sandvox is a web site building tool much like iWeb. I'm now trying Sandvox by Karelia instead. So anybody who knows anything about iWeb 2 probably realizes that this template I'm currently using doesn't exist in iWeb.
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