![]() Once the site was published, I ended up with shapes being split up and scattered across the page, and images overlapping text instead of the text wrapping around it.īoth these cases are examples of the wool iWeb puts over your eyes with regard to how web pages actually function. Secondly, the impression I got that I could drag and drop anything anywhere was misleading. What was even worse is that I started putting drop shadows on titles, and that screws things up to the point where text is saved as an image file! My first site creation attempt was a slow and buggy mess – and that was before I tried viewing it on Internet Explorer 6! Luckily, I changed this quickly, but I was rather confused as to why there was not a restriction put in place regarding font selection. Unfortunately, this is not a web-safe font (and most non-Mac users wouldn’t have the font on their system anyway). Indeed, the in-built theme I started out with used Futura for pretty much everything. Turns out there’s a reason why you can’t.įirstly, I was using some very cool fonts for parts of my site. “How wonderful! Why can’t I do that with practically any other website design application?” I thought to myself. iWeb likes to give you the freedom to do anything. However, quite early on, I spotted a few very strange behaviours when I tried to create content. It’s effectively a website-oriented version of PowerPoint, or a desktop publishing program. For this iWeb was much more accessible to me than, say, something like Dreamweaver. I also like making little tweaks on the fly. ![]() I’m much happier and more comfortable when I can see how everything is going to look and how everything connects visually. It’s very unintimidating for the newcomer, and that’s clearly what Apple were going for. IWeb was actually one of the reasons that I was able to start this website with very limited prior knowledge of web design. With the announcement of iCloud and the simultaneous death of Apple’s online storage and hosting platform MobileMe (something which even Steve Jobs admitted was a bit of a failure), it seemed pretty clear that iWeb – which was designed to tie in heavily with MobileMe – would meet its demise. Although there was an iWeb ’11, the actual application was practically the same version as the one they released two years prior to it. The last ‘real’ version was to be found in iLife ’09 about 3 years ago. It seems that Apple have all but killed off their iLife website creation application iWeb.
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