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iWeb is a WYSIWYG template-based website creation tool made by Apple Inc. and included with its Macintosh computers. It was released during the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, California on January 10, 2006 as part of the iLife '06 creativity suite. The latest version (2.0) was released as part of the iLife '08 suite on August 7, 2007. iWeb creates websites and blogs, and publishes them via Apple's MobileMe and other webhosting services.

Overview and features

iWeb is a website and blog creation tool. The end-user does not need to have any knowledge of web languages in order to effectively use the product.

The features of iWeb include:

Apple-designed templates
Easy website creation
An iLife media browser
Drag and drop support for media files
Blogging in a limited sense
Podcasting
One-click MobileMe publishing (non-MobileMe users can publish sites to a folder, then upload with third-party FTP services.)

iWeb is currently in its second version, and has a limited feature set and some unresolved bugs. Some limitations include:

Creates different CSS files for each page instead of one central file to save disk space
Templates dictate the HTML with little control over the final output (eg. difficult to add Google Analytics tracking code).
No password support on non MobileMe user webpages
Limited number of templates; new templates difficult to make
Limited features for non-MobileMe users

Some of the these features may be included in the future.

On August 7, 2007, iWeb 08 was released as part of iLife '08

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