There aren’t too many reviews of iWeb around, so if anyone wants to know the skinny, I have just two words for you: skip it.
iWeb has to be the worst software Apple has ever released. It looks slick at first, but then you realize right away there is a problem: the blog software doesn’t have comment support. Or trackbacks, or any other interactive capability. In fact, it simply just spits out static HTML every time you update the site.
On top of that, dragging in images from iPhoto does not resize them for use on the web. Instead, iWeb just resizes the img tag width and height attributes, making the download sizes far too large.
Furthermore, the templates Apple provides are not editable. This means that each time you create a new blog entry, you have to remove or overwrite the lorem ipsum text in the template, as well as the photo included (in some of the blog templates).
In fact, the only good thing about iWeb is that the non-blog stuff is just mediocre. For those that don’t know how to set up a website, their templates are so-so. But even then, they are extremely limiting. Too bad, it really looked like it had some promise.
on Feb 8th, 2006 at 10:10 pm
Have to agree – even for beginners this iweb falls well short of expectations
on Mar 4th, 2006 at 2:44 pm
I have to say though; give iweb to a class of kids and they can create some pretty fine websites in a matter of hours. This isn’t possible with any other web design software; certainly not with dreamweaver or go live. Instead of using the iweb blog, they can create a link to their mt sites and so retain the interactive part of blogging.
I imagine the commenting feature will be a part of future releases.