How iLife ‘09 will change Web Design
February 13, 2009 by Tech-Marky
Filed under Design Stuff
Since iLife 2009 has now hit the market, it promises to make a lot of things easier for users with iPhoto ‘09, iMovie ‘09, Garage Band ‘09, and iWeb ‘09.
This year’s iWeb ‘09 has some website design applications that promise web design for the rest of us. A user can create a site using some good themes. It is as easy as choosing a theme with coordinated fonts, backgrounds, and colors to give a consistent look on the site. No more unorganized sites.
Once the theme is picked out, the user can customize it with photos, movies, text, and widgets. As you might have guessed, you can take the photos off of iPhoto, movies from iMovie, and songs from Garage Band. All of these can be easily uploaded on the iLife Media Browser.
Then there is the interactive widget feature which gives iWeb ‘09 drag-and-drop, easy-to-add RSS feeds, iSight photos, videos, a countdown timer, YouTube videos, HTML snippets, as well as other features.
It is also easy to publish and manage using MobileMe, with built-in FTP. You can even program iWeb to automatically update your Facebook friends every time you make an adjustment on your personal site.
So how will this change the world of web design as we know it? Keep a look out for a lot of homemade web sites that will look similar, because they have iWeb themes and widgets in their design. If you are on Facebook, be prepared for a lot of updates from iWeb users. Indeed, iWeb won’t change everything, but enough to make your life more interesting.
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Dan Scholnick on Sat, 14th Feb 2009 5:20 pm
This article is nothing but fluff. It was a waste of my time clicking and reading it.
Michael Dahl on Mon, 16th Feb 2009 10:55 pm
I agree, especially since i got here from a designers website. Jeez…
Jamie on Mon, 16th Feb 2009 11:57 pm
You can’t seriously believe your own title? ilife ‘09 will change nothing in web design – all it will do is add more carbon copy websites with nothing more than general useless crap – very similar to the vast majority of geocities websites back in the day.
Not everything Apple touches is gold – and this defiantly isn’t.
ole on Tue, 17th Feb 2009 4:24 am
Title should be: “Whats new in iLife09″
Jim on Tue, 17th Feb 2009 9:03 am
You’ve got to be kidding me with this, right? Is it April 1st?
Mirko on Wed, 18th Feb 2009 9:46 am
It will be a while before one of these out of the box cookie cutter software bundles change the web.
This sure isn’t going to be one of them.
epdsn on Mon, 23rd Mar 2009 11:32 am
ilife/iweb makes really simple stuff like posting up a webpage and publishing really simple (like that was hard to begin with), as long as you stay “in the box”. Good designers that know javascript, flash, silverlight, photoshop, social networking tools etc. will change design. iweb is a joke.