Viewing iWeb in today's keynote rumour...

iWeb in today's keynote rumour...



User: shaun 9 years ago
Can not see this happening, we have the brilliant Everweb anyway...
User: dan y 9 years ago
Listened to the entire 1 hour 'something' minutes. Nothing! I couldn't find any IWeb rumor anyplace either.

What's that about?
User: jefflopezdesigns 9 years ago
I was wondering the same thing...

Quote: dan y - 18/10/2014 11:07:54
Listened to the entire 1 hour 'something' minutes. Nothing! I couldn't find any IWeb rumor anyplace either.

What's that about?
User: Paul-RAGESW 9 years ago
There was no iWeb replacement in the keynote announcement.

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User: James G. 9 years ago
I live in silicon valley, and there has been a rumor going around that apple will relaunch iweb. It will use apple widgets, blah, blah, be the best & easiest to use, blah, blah. I can see it happen when they make a solid in-road to China, it would be a brilliant time to do it, if it happens at all. It also falls in line with the rumor that a lot of the stuff Jobs cut from apple will be making comebacks. I have yet to see it in print or tv, radio, etc.
User: John S. 9 years ago
I think most people with personal websites have gone to Word Press and/or social media sites are meeting their needs to varying degrees, such as sharing images. Not sure if this much need for iWeb to make a comeback. If Apple decided to take-on Adobe and Dreamweaver, then maybe there is market there. Adobe's CC pricing is steep - $15/mo for Muse or $30/mo Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver as an app is totally over my head, but I've considering going doing that path, but learning curve... ugh...
User: Jeremy-RAGESW 9 years ago
Just out of curiosity for those participating in this discussion who were hoping for an iWeb relaunch, what exactly is it about iWeb vs. EverWeb that makes you want iWeb to make a comeback? Is it a cost situation? Is it a feature thing?
User: wellnl 9 years ago
Having been with EverWeb since it was in beta, I don't think there would be a need for a new iWeb. EverWeb has filled the gap very nicely. Over the past year we have had six point releases. We have you guys asking us users what we want and would like for the future. You talk to us and with us. As much as I like the way Apple does things I am concerned that they have dumbed down Pages Numbers and Keynote recently. And Aperture is dead now and let's not get started on how iPhoto has recently had it's guts yanked out of it completely. So, team EverWeb, happy first anniversary in a few days... keep doing what you are doing... you've been brilliant this last year!
User: Courtney H. 9 years ago
Quote: Jeremy-RAGESW - 28/10/2014 13:37:43
Just out of curiosity for those participating in this discussion who were hoping for an iWeb relaunch, what exactly is it about iWeb vs. EverWeb that makes you want iWeb to make a comeback? Is it a cost situation? Is it a feature thing?


The only thing I liked about iWeb was the ability to place photos in different folders. EverWebs handling of pictures is a bit messy (all in one bucket). That's a minor irritant and can be made to go away with better organization on my side.
The other is blogs - but they are coming on EverWeb. Soon. I hope.

End result - I would NOT move back to iWeb if it was resurrected. The growth of EW has been super the past year and I fully expect it to continue until Jeremy and Paul are worked to death :-)

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User: Susan S. 9 years ago
I can't tell you how much I loved iWeb. I have and still use Aperture, I loved iWork. I loved Apple when it was happy being different. (remember: "think different")

I still love Apple but they are going far more mainstream, hey it's America and we worship the almighty dollar. Numbers and Pages (new versions) are awful. If I have to make the switch from Aperture to an Adobe product (lightroom) I'll bang my head against the wall repeatedly. I already use Photoshop and what a stupid non-intuitive piece of software. Yes it does a lot but not in any elegant way. I'm a Mac person, that won't change but I'm disappointed in Apple.

That being said, I believe if they brought back iWeb it too would be less powerful. I'm comfortable using Everweb now and I'd stick with it. The peeps in this company are beyond responsive and I love that. I can actually talk with the developers, amazing. Tim Cook just won't take my calls. I do wish it had a blogging function but I can tell that new and interesting things are in the future of Everweb and I'm sticking around to see what they might be.

Susan
User: wellnl 9 years ago
Hi Susan, yes the blog is on everyone's wish list... have a look at the EW tutorial as a workaround in the meantime! Also, I too hate Photoshop. I use Pixelmator and it's brilliant. I can do things that I think should be simple to accomplish easily in Pixelmator. With Photoshop imho, wanting something simple always became over complex to achieve. Hope this helps!
User: J Lee H. 9 years ago
I don't trust Apple anymore for software. They randomly kill projects and software when they get bored, and everything I've built on the software then has to be re-done. iWeb was the last straw. I had a 60-page website on iWeb that I now have to rebuild in Everweb. For desktop publishing, I avoided Pages for the same reason, and went with Swift Publisher. I can trust the companies whose software is their main bread-and-butter to stick with their software far more than I can trust the wandering butterfly called Apple that picks up and drops projects at a whim, with little consideration of its customers.
User: George P. 9 years ago
Quote: Jeremy-RAGESW - 28/10/2014 13:37:43
Just out of curiosity for those participating in this discussion who were hoping for an iWeb relaunch, what exactly is it about iWeb vs. EverWeb that makes you want iWeb to make a comeback? Is it a cost situation? Is it a feature thing?


Jeremy, the only thing that I miss from iWeb vs EverWeb is being able to use my iWeb created sites. I still maintain several sites for customers on iWeb of all things and I would LOVE to switch them over to EverWeb... Yes, yes, "convert them over, it's easy, etc. etc." Wellllll, I thought it would be easy. As a matter of fact I started to convert a few of them and then ran into hiccups that did not allow perfect translation. Further I had to cull the assets out, etc. After a couple hours of fiddling, I realized that it simply was not cost effective to do the conversions and thus I am still stuck maintaining them.

I would *really* appreciate and value an iWeb converter. Heck, I'd buy it. Sell it to me on a per site basis. Hire some low-wage overseas developers and offer it as a service for EverWeb converts. I just don't want to go through the grind of a few to several hours per site in converting them over to EverWeb.

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User: Simon C. 9 years ago
I would never use iWeb again. Pointless. I am just really glad that someone (EW) picked up and carried on for none coders like me. Apple have lost the plot and it's not just a "Jobs," issue ( pun intended ). They drag you in then dump a program on a whim. iThis iThat iDon'tf@cking know.
User: James G. 9 years ago
apple tends to have an 18 month cycle. iweb was made for mobile.me and stopped with it or before


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