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Well, for those who think "Man, Steve's just a hardcore Apple fanatic..." here's a piece of Apple software to stay far away from: iWeb 2 (in the new iLife suite). I've already mentioned (a few posts back) the trouble I had upgrading from the first version of the software to this one. I'd finally managed to make the transition, and everything was working...
... until yesterday when I opened the site in iWeb to make some changes, and found that every time I'd click on a page, iWeb would tell me it couldn't find certain elements of the page -- like any photo or graphic I'd placed there. Heck, it had even lost the "Made On A Mac" graphic it sticks at the bottom of every page. All that content was just... gone. And of course, the warning dialog box only had one option: "Continue"
Great. Obviously the "domain" file that iWeb uses to construct the site was corrupted or damaged. Luckily, I had a backup. I replaced that file with the back-up, and *poof* all the content was back. Good. I started working with it, made a few changes, saved the site, then tried to publish it to the folder on the hard drive to upload. Nope: I got a "Unable To Publish - Unknown Error" warning.... and to top it all off, as soon as I clicked on any of the pages on the site in iWeb, I was once again missing page elements. Not the same ones, though. A whole new set.
I restored. Tried it again: made a change and tried to publish. Error. And the pages in iWeb were missing elements. Again, different ones this time just to keep things fresh.
I can't tell you how frustrated and angry I was at that point. Well, I could, but it would entail usage of language I'd rather not use here... I went to the support site, and found that several people were reporting the same behavior: everything would be fine, then one day iWeb would be missing the content placed in the site.
This means that all the too-many hours that went into revamping the site were wasted. The site is up and working, but I can't change it now. Nor can I now trust that iWeb -- if I went to the enormous task of starting the site over yet again from scratch and re-doing all those days of work -- wouldn't just crap out again.
I can't use software I can't trust, no matter how easy it is to use. So I'm re-constructing the site once more from scratch... only this time I'm doing it in Freeway Pro, which is the program I used before iWeb. Freeway Pro isn't as user-friendly as iWeb, but it's a more powerful program (even if I don't really use that power) and it's stable. iWeb 2 feels like a bad piece of beta-ware.
Beware, if you're an Apple user thinking of using it... And you should see a change in the site sometime in the next week. I hope.
... until yesterday when I opened the site in iWeb to make some changes, and found that every time I'd click on a page, iWeb would tell me it couldn't find certain elements of the page -- like any photo or graphic I'd placed there. Heck, it had even lost the "Made On A Mac" graphic it sticks at the bottom of every page. All that content was just... gone. And of course, the warning dialog box only had one option: "Continue"
Great. Obviously the "domain" file that iWeb uses to construct the site was corrupted or damaged. Luckily, I had a backup. I replaced that file with the back-up, and *poof* all the content was back. Good. I started working with it, made a few changes, saved the site, then tried to publish it to the folder on the hard drive to upload. Nope: I got a "Unable To Publish - Unknown Error" warning.... and to top it all off, as soon as I clicked on any of the pages on the site in iWeb, I was once again missing page elements. Not the same ones, though. A whole new set.
I restored. Tried it again: made a change and tried to publish. Error. And the pages in iWeb were missing elements. Again, different ones this time just to keep things fresh.
I can't tell you how frustrated and angry I was at that point. Well, I could, but it would entail usage of language I'd rather not use here... I went to the support site, and found that several people were reporting the same behavior: everything would be fine, then one day iWeb would be missing the content placed in the site.
This means that all the too-many hours that went into revamping the site were wasted. The site is up and working, but I can't change it now. Nor can I now trust that iWeb -- if I went to the enormous task of starting the site over yet again from scratch and re-doing all those days of work -- wouldn't just crap out again.
I can't use software I can't trust, no matter how easy it is to use. So I'm re-constructing the site once more from scratch... only this time I'm doing it in Freeway Pro, which is the program I used before iWeb. Freeway Pro isn't as user-friendly as iWeb, but it's a more powerful program (even if I don't really use that power) and it's stable. iWeb 2 feels like a bad piece of beta-ware.
Beware, if you're an Apple user thinking of using it... And you should see a change in the site sometime in the next week. I hope.