It may take a discerning eye to spot the changes at first — they’re minor right now. But I wanted to take a moment to describe what I did. I stopped using iWeb to create the site, and now everything is hand-crafted HTML. I kept the main look-and-feel of the website as much as I could.
There are a number of benefits with the new approach, only some of which are:
- I can now put anything I want on the web pages and am no longer restricted to the limited set of objects that iWeb provides.
- Resizing the page reflows content, as web pages are meant to be! (iWeb used a static page height and width.)
- The layout is legible when viewed on an iPhone instead of being a squished-up small version.
- I am no longer dependent on iWeb, which appears to be a dying product anyway.
There is only one single drawback I’ve found so far:
- Updating a web page is going to be a tiny bit more difficult for me, as manipulating raw HTML is slightly more complicated than using a higher-level web authoring tool.
Clearly the benefits outweigh the drawbacks. Give the refreshed site a look. Please let me know if anything appears strange.
Posts
