iWeb ’ 08 is the hub for your online life , provide you with a one click option for publishing all of your medium to the cyberspace . you may always institutionalise photos , moving-picture show , and music through e - mail , but with files receive larger , this will just end up clog e - chain armour accounts resulting in your supporter and family engender those annoying “ Your account is over its limit ” message . Besides that , placing your assets on a Web Sir Frederick Handley Page provides you with a master of ceremonies of options no e - mail program can begin to twin .

Although iWeb has not undergone any especially rotatory changes since its former iteration , it has added a few obvious features — such as earmark you to change page themes on the fly and adding a vacuous page template so you’re able to build your own Thomas Nelson Page from shekels — and some squeamish nuance — such as always displaying your log - in condition to your .Mac account ( with its monumental 10 GB of store space , up from the former 1 GB ) and greater visual control of engraft QuickTime file . In addition , you will notice another 14 professionally designed templet for a total of 26 .

Where iWeb has changed most is in its Photo Album direction and in its enjoyment of “ World Wide Web 2.0 ” technologies that allow you to turn your entanglement pages into an interactive and piquant experience , becoming the hub for your own on-line residential area .

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Brush up your Web page

Copying and pasting HTML snippets — customise hypertext markup language codification — to your entanglement page is a piece of cake in iWeb ’ 08 .

One of the major limitations in former version of iWeb , was the inability to add customs duty HTML codification to the Sir Frederick Handley Page . You do n’t have to be a software engineer to re-create and glue Web computer code from YouTube , MySpace , and other societal networking Web internet site for tally video , RSS feed , or other functionality to your Web page . iWeb ’ 08 preface HTML snippets which create a level in the entanglement page where can not only add HTML code , but JavaScript and CSS as well .

Many Web sites furnish such code snippets that you may then copy and glue into iWeb . you may add as many HTML snippet as you want to your Thomas Nelson Page . Be careful , though . The more you weigh down your varlet with computer code pulling functionality and content from elsewhere on the internet , the slower you Web pages be given to adulterate .

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Bring Google to your Web page with widgets

Add an interactive mapping to your Web site , thanks to iWeb ’s desegregation with Google Maps .

iPhoto ’ 08 — another part of the iLife ’ 08 entourage — let you to quickly publish World Wide Web Galleries to a .Mac account or ( in hypothesis ) to your own domain ( see below ) . iWeb can pick up on these Web Galleries in a extra thingamabob and exhibit a miniskirt - version of that picture gallery on any of your Web pages with a link to the full gallery . The interface for scrolling through the miniskirt - gallery is a bit difficult to hold — you have revolve back and onward over the figure as it changes — but the interface for the full gallery makes up for that .

Keep in mind , though , that Web Galleries created by iPhoto are separate from Photo Albums make by iWeb . Web Galleries take you direct into a robust mental image browsing interface using Flash , while iWeb creates HTML Page with photos on them and a link to a more limited graze interface .

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Keeping your albums organized

One problem with the previous version of iWeb was managing all of your Photo Albums . You might create dozens of different Photo Albums ( one for your shaver birthday , one for your beach holiday , one for Halloween , and so on ) but to keep racecourse of them all , you had to manually manage the index page . Now , iWeb will automatically index all of the photo record album you localize into a “ My albums ” directory , demo each album with an animated “ covering fire . ”

iWeb indexes any photograph albums you invest into the My Albums directory for unspoilt album direction than in the previous variant .

Be the master of your own domain? Maybe

One of the most exciting — and need — features tot to iWeb ’ 08 is the power to publish directly to your own World Wide Web knowledge domain alternatively of to a .Mac URL . You still have to have a .Mac account , but you may set the “ Personal Domain ” option and point it to a domain of your choosing . However , the final stone’s throw requires that you set the CNAME ( alias ) on your server mastery panel , which will present a important challenge , even if you have some Web experience . Apple advocate contacting your domain record-keeper for assist , but I suspect most users will just stick to their .Mac url .

You do still have the option of publishing your site to a brochure on your desktop and then uploading it your server , but you will need your own FTP package , and that ’s not exactly push - push publishing .

More to come

I ’ll have more analysis of these young iWeb features — along with an rating of the entire intersection — in a last iWeb ’ 08 review , coming soon to Macworld.com .

[ Jason Cranford Teague is the creative director for AOL RED and the source of several Scripture about data processor design . Jason on a regular basis rants about technology and culture onhis blog . ]

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