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From: Andy Hewitt on 1 Jun 2010 18:46 Having noticed a few flaws in iWeb, I've been looking at the alternatives. However, this has thus far proven to be a fruitless task. It's also the only part of iLife I use now, so I'm looking futher ahead too. As far as iWeb goes, it actually does all *I* need it to. It's quick and easy, and handles my multiple sites ever so well. Indeed, the only issues I have are that it can be tricky to get to display right in IE8, but I have found it can be worked around, and that text will not zoom in Safari. I bought RapidWeaver in one of the recent bundles, but that isn't so easy to use, and in the main doesn't seem all that reliable either - some stuff just doesn't work (blogs are a nightmare). I'd like to be able to place images on a page, but that doesn't seem possible. Photo galleries aren't anything like as flexible as iWeb either. I was going to have a go at Freeway, but the Demo won't run as I tried it a *long* time ago, and it thinks the demo I just download has expired. Then I thought I'd have a go at Sandvox, which seems to be the best possibility. But again, it seems to just not be able to do some things - such as adding a text box. All the supplied templates only have horizontal menus, which has no advantage over iWeb's at all. Thing is, I've got a mammoth task to port my existing sites from iWeb, I need to be sure that I can make a good approximation of the sites I have created in iWeb in order to justify the workload, and be sure that time spent won't be wasted, as well as being sure that any extra cost will be justified. Is there *anything* that could replace iWeb, both at a similar cost, and can match it for ease of use? -- Andy Hewitt <http://web.me.com/andrewhewitt1/>
From: SM on 2 Jun 2010 06:03 Andy Hewitt <thewildrover(a)me.com> wrote: > I bought RapidWeaver in one of the recent bundles, but that isn't so > easy to use, and in the main doesn't seem all that reliable either - > some stuff just doesn't work (blogs are a nightmare). I'd like to be > able to place images on a page, but that doesn't seem possible. Photo > galleries aren't anything like as flexible as iWeb either. My partner uses a RW blog all the time with no problems - are you using RW4? When you say "place images" do you mean position accurately on a page or put them in a page at all? If it's the former you could look at the Blocks plug-in: <http://www.yourhead.com/blocks/> For flexible galleries see: <http://www.barchard.net/projects/weaverpix/> I wouldn't use RW without SiteMap: <http://www.loghound.com/Sitemap/index.html> Of course the cost of plug-ins begins to add up. > Thing is, I've got a mammoth task to port my existing sites from iWeb, I > need to be sure that I can make a good approximation of the sites I have > created in iWeb in order to justify the workload, and be sure that time > spent won't be wasted, as well as being sure that any extra cost will be > justified. I wouldn't attempt to try to recreate iWeb sites in RapidWeaver but I'd guess there are themes which approximate those of iWeb. Stuart -- cut that out to reply
From: Andy Hewitt on 2 Jun 2010 07:38 SM <info(a)that.sundog.co.uk> wrote: > Andy Hewitt <thewildrover(a)me.com> wrote: > > > I bought RapidWeaver in one of the recent bundles, but that isn't so > > easy to use, and in the main doesn't seem all that reliable either - > > some stuff just doesn't work (blogs are a nightmare). I'd like to be > > able to place images on a page, but that doesn't seem possible. Photo > > galleries aren't anything like as flexible as iWeb either. > > My partner uses a RW blog all the time with no problems - are you using > RW4? Yes. > When you say "place images" do you mean position accurately on a page or > put them in a page at all? If it's the former you could look at the > Blocks plug-in: > <http://www.yourhead.com/blocks/> The former. Much as I would in iWeb. > For flexible galleries see: > <http://www.barchard.net/projects/weaverpix/> > > I wouldn't use RW without SiteMap: > <http://www.loghound.com/Sitemap/index.html> > > Of course the cost of plug-ins begins to add up. Yeah, they do indeed. In fact it's a show stopper already. I'm actually doing this for a church web site on a voluntary basis, and I'm footing the bill for the software. I don't mind paying a small amount for software that'll do what I need it to, but I can't afford to have this keep adding up. > > Thing is, I've got a mammoth task to port my existing sites from iWeb, I > > need to be sure that I can make a good approximation of the sites I have > > created in iWeb in order to justify the workload, and be sure that time > > spent won't be wasted, as well as being sure that any extra cost will be > > justified. > > I wouldn't attempt to try to recreate iWeb sites in RapidWeaver but I'd > guess there are themes which approximate those of iWeb. There are instructions for that, but it doesn't work very well at all. I have tried doing some copy/paste from iWeb, but graphics don't work at all, they just appear as 'pasted image'. Having played with all of them now, it seems that iWeb actually does more of what I need than anything else, albeit a little less 'standards compliant', but that seems easier to workaround than change to a new composer. Cheers. -- Andy Hewitt <http://web.me.com/andrewhewitt1/>
From: SM on 2 Jun 2010 08:11 Andy Hewitt <thewildrover(a)me.com> wrote: > > I wouldn't attempt to try to recreate iWeb sites in RapidWeaver but I'd > > guess there are themes which approximate those of iWeb. > > There are instructions for that, but it doesn't work very well at all. I > have tried doing some copy/paste from iWeb, but graphics don't work at > all, they just appear as 'pasted image'. > > Having played with all of them now, it seems that iWeb actually does > more of what I need than anything else, albeit a little less 'standards > compliant', but that seems easier to workaround than change to a new > composer. I reckon moving sites from one template driven web authoring program to another is, to paraphrase the dear leader, a bag of hurt. Stuart -- cut that out to reply
From: Andy Hewitt on 2 Jun 2010 08:16
SM <info(a)that.sundog.co.uk> wrote: > Andy Hewitt <thewildrover(a)me.com> wrote: > > > > I wouldn't attempt to try to recreate iWeb sites in RapidWeaver but I'd > > > guess there are themes which approximate those of iWeb. > > > > There are instructions for that, but it doesn't work very well at all. I > > have tried doing some copy/paste from iWeb, but graphics don't work at > > all, they just appear as 'pasted image'. > > > > Having played with all of them now, it seems that iWeb actually does > > more of what I need than anything else, albeit a little less 'standards > > compliant', but that seems easier to workaround than change to a new > > composer. > > I reckon moving sites from one template driven web authoring program to > another is, to paraphrase the dear leader, a bag of hurt. Yup, it seems to be that way. -- Andy Hewitt <http://web.me.com/andrewhewitt1/> |