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Check out the official .Mac blog
What's this?
An honest-to-goodness blog from within Apple? Are you serious?Well, sort of. The .Mac blog is really just a promotion for iLife '06 and all of the swell things you can do with it as a .Mac subscriber. Still, it's the first iWeb-generated site I've laid my eyes on, and it's not bad. It would be nice to add a photo gallery, just so we could check it out. While it may not be especially informative, it is a decent demonstration of the product. I'll keep it in mind for when people ask, "So, what exactly does iWeb do again?"
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ralf Schmid said 7:04PM on 1-11-2006
It might not be bad, but it's not good either. And the generated code is a ridiculous div-soup.
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random said 7:17PM on 1-11-2006
iWeb is like an almost replacement for HomePage. I'm impressed with the app so far. It's like HomePage on steroids. You've got the basic templates with Pages layout functionality (limited to a degree, of course) and a little iPhoto editing on the side. Creating iWeb Photo Albums works fantastically from iPhoto. You select your pictures or album, click the button to put it over iWeb, select your template and let it import.
My only complaint is that it needs more templates! You can change pretty much everything about the template you're in, but I like some of the templates Apple uses on HomePage and would have loved to see them in iWeb.
I published my iWeb to .Mac. The URL changes to "web.mac.com/username/iweb/". It's not under the HomePage hierarchy and it doesn't publish to your Sites folder, so your HomePages will remain untouched.
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Kesey said 7:23PM on 1-11-2006
Still not going to adopt the feed icon I see.
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lakiolen said 7:30PM on 1-11-2006
Look at those horrible urls for actual blog entries. Could have at least made it the title of the entry....
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Alex Kadis said 7:46PM on 1-11-2006
For those who were worried, it *almost* validates XHTML Transitional http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.mac.com/web/en/Blog/Blog.html&charset=(detect%20automatically)&ss=1&doctype=Inline&ss=1&verbose=1
The only invalid element is an onload tag, and quite honestly, I'd be willing to let that slip (they should use DOM scripting, but at least they made it mostly standards, if not semantic)
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Don Wilson said 8:07PM on 1-11-2006
I'm waiting to see what an XML file for photocasting looks like.
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Jason Ross said 9:11PM on 1-11-2006
Ugh, what's with the stupid-big left border, and all the dead space off on the right hand side? I don't browse with my browser window maximized, and by default I cannot see all the content because of the stupi-big left border. And that horizontal scrollbar that just keeps going off to the right into la-la-land.
Bad design.
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Dan Bedford said 12:52AM on 1-12-2006
Agreed with Jason Ross... the dead space to the right is pretty weird, and the left and right margins of the entire page are not "auto", it looks as if it's absolutely positioned. The empty space on the right side I can deal with for a v1.0 product, but come on, at least auto-margin the sides of the container div.
I encourage all you guys with complaints to send feedback to Apple. I know I will. At least the page almost validates with only a single error.
Overall, a good v1.0 effort by Apple for easy, standards based web publishing. Can't wait for the comparison reports of iWeb against the third-party products like Realmac software's Rapidweaver ( http://www.realmacsoftware.com/ ) and Karelia's Sandvox ( http://www.karelia.com/ ). Both of which validate as XHTML Strict and the code looks pretty good. (They both do offer direct source code editing, so their developers could have gone in the and cleaned up the straight generated code.)
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