Here is the site I created in about 1 hour http://web.mac.com/coreymclaughlin/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html. No podcast yet.



One other note while playing iMovie it crashed on me twice.

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I tried your link but it show it as not being an actual site, just for your info.

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Wow. That's some nice default templates that come with iWeb. Great looking sites, nice AJAX goodness in there. Looks great. Wonder how it runs in IE! Hehe

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Corey McLaughlin, .Mac is showing an error with your page

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I did it all...it was easy...for the most part...



I even did a podcast with the new GarageBand/iTunes/iWeb integration. Worked pretty well.



It's a boring personal site, but hey, I did it.



http://web.mac.com/bryanhooper/iWeb

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I find the whole "Slideshow based off AJAX technology" statement to be a little bit loose in looking at the slideshow example on Corey's site. It IS a lot of javascript, but nothing more than preloaded images and some fancy CSS effects. On my quick lookthrough, I see no XMLHTTP. Impressive, yes. But AJAX (as whatever formal definition you might want to use) is the use of JS with XMLHTTP to facilitate server communication. It appears that there's none of that with the slideshow. My main point isn't to be down about Jobs calling it an AJAX technology, but that it will run fine when exported to the local drive. Though, by default it looks like it might be referencing the .Mac server when you do that for the javascript libraries. This is a case of Web 2.0 being the right word, not AJAX.

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Extremely clean HTML produced by iWeb. Excellent work Apple! I'm still looking for an RSS for Photocasts...

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Wonder if this means they've fixed html export from Pages and Keynote? One can only hope.

I guess I won't know until I pick everything up this weekend. In the mean time, I can have fun "handcoding" my own slideshows using Apple's javascripts. The only thing I can't get to work yet is the reflection.

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Nice link #4. I had trouble getting to #1 - .Mac said it couldn't be found.



What's the word on using photocasting and the blog on non-.Mac sites? Possible? I'm dropping by the nearest Apple Store (1 hr away) this weekend to get iLife, so I haven't found out yet. Not like this is a make or break option, but it'd be good to know.



-Eddie

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One strange thing on Bryan's (comment #4) site. Go to some of the other pages and look at those urls.

Say you want to send Grandma to your photos page. You have to send:

http://web.mac.com/bryanhooper/iWeb/FB57BAD6-C937-47E9-A288-3E920FCD893A/New%20Orleans.html

in an email. Guess that's why they added the "Announce Your Site" feature.

Maybe there's a reason for the gargantuan url, I just can't think of one.

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I agree on the use of AJAX. I do not pre-fetching of the images apart from the thumbnails. It would have been faster had there been loaded in the background. :D

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This was thrown together so that I could demo iWeb's publish capabilities. I was primarily interested to see if iWeb cluttered up the resulting HTML/CSS code following export.



I didn't spent too much time on it -- just basically selected a template, threw some pictures in and exported.



Here's a link:

http://www.Apple-Discounts.com/iweb/index.html



The first thing I noticed is that these pages are HUGE. Specifically, the home page came in at a whopping 1.4MB! The photo of myself and my wife was 154K (too big, I know...), subtract that, and everything adds up to 1.25MB. Ouch.

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The URL above is jacked -- here it is again:



http://www.Apple-Discounts.com/iweb

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nice.... but it seems like visitors cannot comment on the blog

entries... hmmm.... and the URL of the individual blog entry is just

a bunch of codes, instead of something meaningful... guess i'm not

getting iWeb afterall.... *sigh*

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Did anyone else feel a twinge of pain for RapidWeaver? Blog/podcast support, .Mac integration, beautiful themes, WYSIWYG design, iWeb was all too familiar. Here's a RapidWeaver site I created for the holiday season:



http://homepage.mac.com/brhays/ChristmasList/page1/page1.html



Took me all of 30 minutes. I'll definitely have iLife '06, but I feel like it may have killed what is truly an innovative app for the Mac.

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It seems that the pages have all the text in DIVs (good) but all the formatting in the style attribute, which doesnt do much to help the filesize. isnt the pt of CSS to reduce redundancy? it seems theres a lot of it in the page.

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Humm thoses sites are pretty but slow...



For the blogs, can we add trackbacks, permalinks,etc capabilities ?

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Yes, I noticed a lot of inline styles in the output produced by iWeb (at least in their sample blog), so a lot of repetition and code bloat...you'd think a company that makes its own dev tools / compilers could apply some of that knowledge to generating optimized xhtml/css, or optimized templates anyway. I mean, look at TypePad's drag-and-drop page design tools, and that's a web app! The bar has been set much higher already by free or low-cost web apps - I'd expect an Apple desktop app (combined with what, $100/year for .Mac, at least?) to surpass them. I mean, no commenting system?? Weren't Xserves supposed to be shipping with Bloxsom as standard, anyway?



I guess the market is still open for a consumer-level WYSIWYG web design tool for OS X, then - as for blogging tools, I'll stick with MovableType and MarsEdit...

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Hi,

Well i use Rapidweaver myself and think its a great product, and i belive there is a new version coming out too.

But im wondering what the story is with the URL of Sites created with IWeb? Are they like that all the time? The Url is a bit long to be sending around etc...etc...

Peter

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I feel RealMac Software's pain. I am an avid Rapidweaver user and promote it to everyone I know. It is going to be interesting to see if iWeb has the same ease of use as Rapidweaver.

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