AAUG Reviews

by Gary Miller, AAUG Member

My wife decided that she wanted to show many photos of Amaryllis flowers to prospective buyers. She had used small images in an email, but that didn’t always work, and I wondered if my iLife’s iWeb would do the trick. So i launched it for the first time, and started playing with it. Apple furnishes a very small tutorial, and a help file, but no here’s how we get started, and examples that are off the beaten track which seems to where I get with my Mac.

Enter the Take Control Books iWeb edition for iLife ‘06 by Steven Sande. The first thing you notice about this downloadable book of 120 pages is that it is straight to the point, no mumbling words, no wandering in sentences. It’s clearly written, and invites you to try another way of setting up your simple website.

So i began in earnest, and the book quickly guided me through the basics, and beyond. The front page of the book is the table of contents, and it’s well organized into easy to find topics that I used often. Since it’s on your computer, you just click on a topic, or sub topic, and it takes you there pronto. I liked that. It followed the various features of the application well, and gave more in-depth guidance too. Most welcome! I found my site much fun to create, here’s the link in case you want to see what i created: http://web.mac.com/garyinalaska

What i liked next to learn was how to create a shopping cart, or a way to sell merchandise from your site, the book gave many ways and examples to do, great!

It gave excellent advice on choosing a web host, managing multiple web sites, how you can make money with your site. I would have liked more photos or screen shots since I’m a strong visual learner. But other than that, it’s perfect the way it was written. You can print out a chapter or the entire book if you like, or now Take Control is offering printed versions if you like.

An excellent source of knowledge on iWeb!. Get it!