Jamming with iWeb

I have spent a couple of hours on iWeb now, and have had some fun. I am not convinced that iWeb is going to replace BBEdit yet, for my web development. But for quickly knocking up a design and easy publishing it is a lot of fun - well compared to hand-coding xhtml or css...

Welcome to Jam Pack

So here is my first iWeb designed site, introducing Jam Pack. The podcast is not done, erm, because I haven't got round to it yet... The thing I don't like about the blogging feature is the horrible URL's, shame they didn't poach Blogger's fine example.

iWeb - Web publishing for the .Mac Massive

Apple announced the latest version of iLife yesterday - iLife '06. Steve Jobs described it as a "great leap forward" and it seems from a web publishing point of view it is. It now comes with a new app - iWeb, which wouldn't take Hercule Poirot too long to work out that it is a web development application. iWeb does require a .Mac account to publish apparently and it will be interesting to see what you can actually do with it in practice.

Living the iLife

I think with this release Apple have really injected a lot of "i", namely internet into the complete iLife '06 package. GarageBand 3 seems to have been steered into a Podcasting studio app, with intelligent features for podcasters to really get their teeth stuck into. Video is now supported too, and you can even record iChat interviews straight into it - neat huh?

Photocasting

Apple have spawned another new technology too - Photocasting, which looks like a great way for syndicating images.

RSS, AJAX and other technologies

Steve Jobs mentioned that all the iLife '06 stuff is to industry standards, so it'll be interesting if we can make some, nice and easy web standards pages using the app, hey, I could even do this site with it!

The FOUC Safari

The Flash of Unstyled Content FOUC has been with us poor web developers for a while now. However Apple's Safari browser also falls foul of this CSS disease.

Fouc Me

Been Googling for Safari FOUC fixes with no joy. Google Adsense has been mentioned with the FOUC word, but I haven't found any concise fixes.

Fouc You

Do you have a fix for the Safari FOUC bug? I would love to hear it and so would these fine people. Thanks.