With a Mac, you can create your very own website ? complete with video, podcasts, and photo galleries ? in the time it takes a PC to churn out a single text-only blog entry.
Say you want to create a video blog. Well, it so happens that a MacBook Pro or iMac comes tricked out with a built-in iSight camera. That?s right. A fully featured video camera, nestled right at the top of the screen. To film the first entry for your blog, just launch iMovie HD. Then record your latest rant, rave, or rumination. Or hold the cat up there for a few seconds. Whatever suits your fancy.
Once you?ve recorded your entry, export it to iWeb. Pick a website theme in iWeb to match your mood (or the cat?s eyes). Your movie appears in a brand-new template, all ready for you to personalize with clever commentary. And when you?ve wrapped up your entry for the day, iWeb lets you hit the web in stride. Click ?Publish? and your brand-new video blog goes live, complete with index and archive pages.
And that?s only one example of how everything in iLife works together to give you a one-way ticket to webdom. Got a photo album you?re dying to share with the fam? Click the little iWeb icon at the bottom of your iPhoto album and voila! Instant photo gallery. Or start with a blank slate in iWeb and use the iLife Media Browser to drag in all your stuff. Add a graduation photo to your latest blog entry. Post the family reunion podcast you recorded at your grandma?s house. Everything you create in iLife appears in the Media Browser, ready to make its web debut.
Which is where .Mac comes in. Open a .Mac account* and you can publish your website with one click. iWeb and .Mac take care of all the heavy lifting. No html coding, no messy file transfer, no wrestling with web servers. What you see is what you get. And what you get is a great-looking website.
*The .Mac service is available to persons age 13 and older. Annual membership fee and Internet access required. Terms and conditions apply.
