iWeb question

roewert · roewert #1 (**permalink**)

03-24-2006, 05:31 PM

I recently converted to Mac. I have my own web page, and used MS Frontpage to work with it. Now that the PC is gone I needed something else. I was told that iWeb was what I needed, so I recently purchased iLife and installed it. So far I can find no way to access my present web site. All iWeb seems to do is offer a handful of cheesy pre-made web pages to modify and publish on a mac website. Am I missing something? Is there somewhat to access and edit pages on my present web site? Or did I waste my money on iLife? Help!

Murlyn · Murlyn #2 (**permalink**)

03-24-2006, 06:00 PM

If you got iLife just for iWeb, then yeah you wasted your money. You'll need something like Dreamweaver to access your already created site. FrontPage does some of the worst code I have ever seen in a web program, so Dreamweaver might have problems with it.. but then again maybe not and maybe it'll clean it up also.

iWeb just uses templates and is a simple way for people with no experience in designing sites, to get a nice looking site up pretty quickly.

EDIT-XTREEM · EDIT-XTREEM #3 (**permalink**)

03-24-2006, 06:02 PM

iweb was not meant really to edit old pages, it is to create new ones. It does not even have built in ftp support.

EDIT: I WAS TO SLOW

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Murlyn #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Jun 11, 2003 Location: Mount Vernon, WA Posts: 4,905 Mac Specs: MacBook Pro 2.6 GHz Core 2 Duo 4GB RAM OS 10.5.2	03-24-2006, 06:00 PM If you got iLife just for iWeb, then yeah you wasted your money. You'll need something like Dreamweaver to access your already created site. FrontPage does some of the worst code I have ever seen in a web program, so Dreamweaver might have problems with it.. but then again maybe not and maybe it'll clean it up also. iWeb just uses templates and is a simple way for people with no experience in designing sites, to get a nice looking site up pretty quickly. ---> Join the Mac-Forums Folding team: use 37954 as your team number. View Mac-Forums Folding team statistics (More Info) Don't forget to use the User Reputation System
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Member Since: Mar 20, 2006 Posts: 26	03-24-2006, 05:31 PM I recently converted to Mac. I have my own web page, and used MS Frontpage to work with it. Now that the PC is gone I needed something else. I was told that iWeb was what I needed, so I recently purchased iLife and installed it. So far I can find no way to access my present web site. All iWeb seems to do is offer a handful of cheesy pre-made web pages to modify and publish on a mac website. Am I missing something? Is there somewhat to access and edit pages on my present web site? Or did I waste my money on iLife? Help!
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