You can also use your own Mac as a web server ( no matter how old), but that's the subject of another post. The other negative? You'll need to pay for web hosting from one of the many hosting providers. Unfortunately, iWeb probably won't be supported in the future and may eventually stop working with future releases of Mac OS X. Not much is lost in translation, and you won't need to go through a lot of redesign work. The great thing about this solution is that you can just change the host for your website, point iWeb to the new host, and publish your same old site to the new location. Note that some of the standard iWeb features, including password protection, blog and photo comments, blog search and the hit counter don't work when you use FTP for publishing. Just about every major and minor web hosting provider supports FTP.
If you want to keep using iWeb for a while but would like to move your iWeb site away from MobileMe hosting, then get yourself a domain name, get a web host, and start publishing via FTP. Instead, all of the suggestions I'll make here are aimed at the folks who just want to create a relatively good-looking website quickly, without a lot of training. I will not be covering professional web design tools in this post, as iWeb is designed for easy creation of sites. Here I'm going to take a more detailed look at several easy website creation tools and hosting alternatives, so that you can start making your plans to move away from iWeb and MobileMe. In my post about this, I mentioned some alternatives that TUAW readers might want to look at. An iWeb user allegedly sent Apple CEO Steve Jobs an email asking if he should start looking for another website builder and a new host, and Jobs provided one of his patented terse replies: "Yep." Yesterday, we reported on a rumor that Apple's website creation software, iWeb, is about a year away from obsolescence, along with MobileMe's hosting of iWeb sites.
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