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Several week after the dismissal of iLife ’ 06 , Apple released a new rendering of iWeb that tackled a major thorny issue I noted in the WWW - publishing program ’s debut . While several improvements in version 1.0.1 clear up a host of concerns and altered the programme slightly , the most significant advance in iWeb 1.0.1 is its treatment of images . And that do me to recalculate the military rating .

Version 1.0 convert most images placed on its formatted page to the PNG file formatting . This was a job not only because PNGs , on the whole , be given to be big than the more democratic JPEG image formatting , and thus take longer to download , but also because they take up a lot of space on .Mac and other servers . While iWeb still does not let you specifically choose whether or how to optimize images , edition 1.0.1 publishes most images and photograph thumbnails as JPEGs , except in shell where an image contains a reflection , shadow , or revolution .

This melioration significantly speeded up download time for most pages , even those containing large images . For example , one image I write was primitively posted as a hefty 644 KB PNG . Reposting the picture with version 1.0.1 resulted in a more - slender 180 KB JPEG . That makes a big difference .

Other improvements

• Apple has enhanced iWeb ’s photocasting lineament to bushel some minor universal resource locator issues and to supply a Photocast icon to the link .

• Apple also meliorate small-scale web log - related government issue such as update the summary trope for an inline audio file , fix an issue with the Undo command , and changing the name of the Add Blog Entry button to simply Add Entry . The novel version also should eliminate the iDisk Quota wrongdoing message some users were getting when they assay to publish to .Mac .

• The new interpretation allows you to use the same page name on multiple Web sites , so that if you ’re publishing more than one site , you’re able to have two “ Welcome ” or “ About Me ” pages . iWeb now mechanically tot up a phone number at the close of the page name .

• A motion-picture show preview advance make uncommitted some time information that was missing when sending moving picture from iMovie to iWeb , allot to Apple .