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I hadn't realized how many people were relying on iWeb and Mobile Me until Apple announced that they were going to be discontinuing it
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Many have written me to ask about alternatives and suggestions
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What's going away and when
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Mobile Me will be shut down completely on June 30, 2012. The iCould services will be in place this Fall.
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If you had an active MobileMe account as of June 6, 2011, your service has been extended through June 30, 2012, at no additional charge
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iCloud will continue to have Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Bookmarks, Find My iPhone, and Back to My Mac
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iWeb Publishing (hosting), Gallery, and iDisk are going away.
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iCloud will add iTunes in the Cloud, Photo Stream, Documents in the Cloud, Automatic downloads and purchase history for apps and books, Backup and restore
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iCloud includes 5GB of storage for free
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Purchased music, apps, books, and TV shows, as well as your Photo Stream, don’t count against your free storage.
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You can buy more storage if needed
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Three basic parts of iWeb and iWeb Publishing
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Creating content
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Publishing the content (uploading)
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Hosting
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The biggest thing you are losing is the integration of the OS, app, and hosting services. These other solutions come close, but aren't as easy to use as iWeb + Mobile Me.
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WYSIWYG Content creation
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iWeb
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In it's existing form it should continue to work as a content creation tool
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You won't get updates or new templates, but what you have now should still work
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Rapidweaver ($79.99)
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Code free, WYSIWYG content creation. Code editing for advanced users.
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Different page types, including blogs and photo galleries
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Templates and themes. 45-built-in.
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Add ons for advanced users
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Very iWeb like user interface. 3-panel layout.
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Integrated publishing and bookmarks. (FTP, SFTP, and WebDAV)
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Sandvox ($77.00)
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Code free, WYSIWYG content creation. Code editing for advanced users.
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Different page types, including blogs and photo galleries
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Templates and themes. Over 50 designs.
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Very iWeb like user interface with inspector palette
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Integrated publishing. . (FTP, SFTP, and WebDAV)
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Freeway Express ($69.00)
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WYSIWYG editing
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More like a page layout app than HTML editor
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Built in templates
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Integrated publishing (FTP and SFTP)
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Adobe Muse (beta)
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Software is free for now, but looks to be about $15.00/mo when it launches early next year
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Integrated hosting with Adobe Business Catalyst which currently costs $9.00/mo.
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It's an Adobe Air application.
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Publishing
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If you stick with iWeb as your tool, set up FTP publishing
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Open iWeb '09 and click the name of the site you want to publish in the left sidebar. The Site Publishing Settings window appears.
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In the Site Publishing Settings window, choose FTP Server from the Publish to drop-down menu.
Enter the following information:
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Site name (optional).
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Contact email (optional).
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FTP server address (provided by your web hosting service).
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User name for publishing to your web hosting service.
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Password.
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Directory and path (if required by your web hosting service).
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Protocol and port (if required by your web hosting service).
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Click the Test Connection button to make sure you have entered your information correctly.
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Enter the URL for your website.
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Click the Publish Site button.
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Just means copying the files generated by your software and moving
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If it's not integrated in the app or if you prefer to do it manually
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FTP client software
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Transmit ($34.00) - FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3.
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CyberDuck (free) - FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3.
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Fetch ($29.00) - FTP, SFTP
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You'll use the information provided from your hosting provider for setting up the in-app or dedicated FTP client information
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Server, username, and password.
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Hosting
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Lots of option at a low monthly cost. Dreamhost, Bluehost, GoDaddy. Usually around $5.00/mo
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Some ISP also have hosting built into your Internet connection so check that.
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Go cloud based
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Basekit (starting at $10/mo)
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Squarespace (starting at 20/mo)
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These site offer themes and was to drag and drop and edit content web based interfaces
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Basekit has a process for converting PSD designs into custom templates
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If you do move to a new solution, don't forget.
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Move your custom domain or tell people where your new site is
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After the move you may want to a create a iWeb Page on the Mobile Me site the links to your new page.
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To move your Mobile Me personal domain
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Open a browser window and go to your web hosting service's site.
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Follow the site's instructions for configuring your personal domain. Note the CNAME (Canonical Name) record required by your provider.
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Go to your personal domain registrar's site and find the CNAME configuration section.
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Change the CNAME from web.me.com to your web hosting service's address (this change may take some time to process).
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Sign in to me.com/account.
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On the Account page, click Personal Domain on the left.
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Click the Remove Domain button on the right to remove your configured personal domain from MobileMe.
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