The Macintosh iLife 06

With iWeb, you can put your world on the Web. You can create Web sites containing text, photos, movies, podcasts, and more. iWeb insulates you from Web publishing technicalities, such as markup languages and servers.

Start by choosing one of the site design templates that are built into iWeb. Many of those designs have counterparts in other iLife '06 programs. For example, the Travel template in iWeb resembles the Travel theme in iPhoto, iDVD, and iMovie HD. Thus, you can create a Web site about your vacation and have it match your iPhoto books and calendars, your iMovie video travelogue, and the DVD containing your video and travel slide showsa consistent visual identity, as the marketers would say.

Each iWeb template provides several types of pages, as shown at right. As you create a site, you simply add new pages as needed to accommodate what you want to publish.

Decided on a design? Just add content. Replace the placeholder photos and text with your own. Use the page design as is, or use iWeb's formatting tools to customize it to your own liking. If you've used Apple's Pages or Keynote software, you'll feel at home with iWeb's formatting features.

iWeb also simplifies creating blogs and podcasts. Creating a new blog or podcast entry is as easy as creating a new email message. iWeb also manages the chores of creating archive pages and RSS feeds.

When you're finished, one click sends your site to Apple's .Mac serviceand to the world.

A Gallery of Web Pages

Each iWeb template provides six page styles, each aimed at a specific type of content. Each design has placeholders for text and graphics; you can also add additional graphics and text boxes.