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iWeb: Good for Something

February 27, 2008 by No One of Consequence

I was disappointed when I found out that iWeb can only be published to a .mac account. While I love my Mac OS I have become increasingly disappointed with many of Apple’s business tactics. It all started with “.mac” and “free for life.” But that is a rant for another day. Back to iWeb.

Apparently there is a work around solution out there for publishing sites created with iWeb even if you don’t have a .mac account. you cannot publish direct but you can follow what are most likely a few fairly simple steps if you know what you are doing. However, it all seems rather complicated and I simply don’t have the time or the energy to attempt it right now.

So I have found a simple way to use some of the cool little iWeb graphics and features to create some interesting stuff for my blog. I use the Grab application to select the photo or graphic and then save it as a .tiff file. Then I open in Preview and save it as a jpeg. These were easy. Now on to something bigger.

Posted in Photography, Procrastination Posts | Tagged art, cemetery, iWeb, Mac, photo, Photography | 5 Comments

5 Responses to “iWeb: Good for Something”

on February 27, 2008 at 5:12 am1 Jason

It’s actually really easy to publish your iWeb site to a folder and then upload that via ftp to your own server.

File>Publish to a Folder

I like to use Fetch for ftp http://fetchsoftworks.com/
on February 27, 2008 at 5:39 am2 No One of Consequence

Thanks Jason. One of these days I will give a it a try!
on February 27, 2008 at 3:31 pm3 ikarl67

Making a page look great is EXTREMELY easy with iWeb as is publishing to a folder then FTPing to a host. However, all of the functionality is lost. I love apple as well, but dropping $100 a year on .mac and $80 every other year on iLife / then $130 every other year on a new OS9 gets old. Not to mention hardware upgrades every 4-5 years!
I am thinking about starting to Blog. I have a .Mac account
link but have been reluctant to put a Blog there. My .Mac is mostly family stuff and I may want to have content on my blog that is should not be seen by all my family. I would really like to learn to make the look my own and not be confined to templates. With Blogger.com, I can edit edit HTML/CSS yet with wordpress.com the templates look pretty good already.

What I would REALLY like is to be able to publish using iWeb and retain ALL functionality.
on March 1, 2008 at 8:02 pm4 TJ

This site has a complete visual tutorial on how to upload your iWeb site folder to your service provider using http://FTP. Says Fetch does not work so well. Recommends using Cyberduck because it works better and is free.

http://guimkie.com/iweb/uploading-your-iweb-site-to-your-server/
on March 4, 2008 at 11:59 am5 No One of Consequence

Thanks TJ! I appreciate the link. I’m going to give it a try.