First look at iWeb via a blog made with iWeb

"iWeb exports no text - all the text is rendered as a graphic - so no search engine spider can read your iWeb page, nor can you use a free search database like Atomz in your web sites."

This is incorrect. My copy of iWeb makes all my fonts regular web page text. Maybe you're customizing your fonts or layout too much.

Some points:
1. Get used to the spinning beachball.
2. iWeb exports no text - all the text is rendered as a graphic - so no search engine spider can read your iWeb page, nor can you use a free search database like Atomz in your web sites. So you can't cut and paste this text - depending what you want out of a web site depends on whether this is a good or bad feature.
3. On a 20" iMac G4 widescreen LCD iWeb pages take about 40% of the screen width only (a bit like Apple's own web site) and here we all are sat with beautiful wide apple displays!!!

I like the ideal of iWeb but I am disappointed by the fundamental issues I list above. Still my site does look tidier than it did when I wrote HTML in TextEdit (but not that much).

mrtotes

(oops, my tags were removed)
No, it's not impressive to create valid XHTML if [div] is the only element you use. They've just replaced FrontPage's [table][td] with [div style]. Ugly!

No, it's not impressive to create valid XHTML if is the only element you use. They've just replaced FrontPage's with . Ugly!

I thought there was a way to mirror things with CSS instead of making it one huge image.

The mirroring has concerned me from the start. Seems like an awful waste of bandwidth.

Does anyone know if a .Mac webpage can run server side scripting? (even if you have to request it?)

The source is ugly, but it's valid XHTML 1.0 transitional. That's pretty impressive.

Could they mangle the URL any more than that? Yikes. How about some nice looking, plain-text type URLs?

I just recieved iWeb and dabbled around with it with some of my pictures and original music. I created a podcast page with my music if anyone is interested in seeing what that looks like.

http://web.mac.com/lghancock/iWeb/Homepage/Home.html

Nice roundup but could the guy have possibly uploaded some photos and pictures so we could see what that looks like? This text only page doesn't really give you a feel for what iWeb can do. So far I have not been very impressed with the templates I have seen.

I wonder how this compares with Sandvox or RapidWeaver?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT FAREEEEEE..... WHAt the hell.. 8**
Why do they do thi s////??? there is no reason it produces such bad code and weaksauce editing..... :(