Archive for February 8, 2006

iWeb Like & Dislikes

Posted in Mac Software on February 8, 2006 by deepink

I’ve been using iWeb (Apple’s new easy to use web publishing product, part of the iLife suite) for a week or so now and have to say that in general I like the product but would like to see more than a few improvements. I think that they rushed the produt and the only reason I’m not too annoyed at them is that a release 1 product is ussually buggy so guess I’ll cut em some slack. There is a nice support site available here if you wish to see samples and find out answers to some questions.

What I like About iWeb:

  • The templates- they are really nice
  • The drag and drop ease from your media (audio, iPhoto…) to a page
  • Integration with the rest of iLife in general
  • The general ease of use and user interface
  • The one button publish to .mac or a folder

What I don’t like about iWeb:

  • The unexpected crashes
  • No auto save feature
  • Can’t edit publishing date on blog w/out messing up blog entry order
  • Publishing errors without any explanations
  • Not knowing where the template objects are stored/ coming from
  • The templates are great but could we have a bit more?
  • No code view where you can tinker with the html, div and the like
  • No calendar view on the blog page
  • No comments or permlinks
  • The long urls esp. for your blogs
  • Takes way too long to upload
  • Pages take too long to load in general
  • Images aren’t optimized

BTW here are a few reviews of iWeb if interested.

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