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   Sandvox 2.6 Extracts iWeb Site Content

   Adam C. Engst

   While the most important aspect of MobileMe going dark for iWeb users
   is getting your site hosted somewhere else, it's clear that iWeb itself
   is hanging on by only a thread as well. So the need to move your
   iWeb-based Web site somewhere else is a good excuse to get away from
   iWeb too, and to make that easier, Karelia Software has just updated
   their Web site authoring tool, [1]Sandvox.

   I won't get into Sandvox's features in detail, but suffice to say,
   while it predates iWeb, it's now designed to do everything iWeb can do
   and more. (Karelia has had the dubious distinction of being [2]stepped
   on by Apple not once, but twice, first with Sherlock 3 appearing to
   compete with their Internet search tool Watson and then with iWeb.)
   Sandvox offers a drag-and-drop interface for creating entire Web sites
   ' complete with blogs, picture galleries, social media integration, and
   more ' all without coding in HTML. Once designed, Sandvox generates
   your site using HTML5, and makes sure the code is compatible with all
   major browsers on the Mac and PC, and with mobile devices.

   What's new in Sandvox 2.6 is the capability to extract content from
   existing iWeb sites. Note that Karelia is careful to avoid the term
   'import' since Sandvox cannot ' technically or legally ' import iWeb
   sites. (Technically is hard because iWeb does some funky stuff with the
   HTML code, and legally is impossible because iWeb templates are
   copyrighted by Apple.)

   Instead, when you point Sandvox at an iWeb-generated site, Sandvox
   crawls the entire site, extracting good-sized chunks of text and large
   graphics and adding them to a new Sandvox document. (You can even watch
   it doing this, which is pretty cool.) It will not create a site that
   looks like your existing iWeb site, but the same basic structure and
   content should be present for you to manipulate, tweak, and even
   improve within Sandvox. Karelia has posted detailed, FAQ-based [3]guide
   to transitioning an iWeb site that should explain exactly what you can
   expect. (As a dirty little secret, Sandvox can extract content in this
   way from any site, but it's tweaked to work best with iWeb-created
   sites.)

   [4][tn_Sandvox-Extract-Content.jpg]

   Much as I know being forced to make transitions like this is a pain, I
   think this one is worth looking at a little differently. Web design is
   an ever-evolving art, and if you created a site in iWeb a few years
   ago, when Apple was still maintaining the program, it's a few years out
   of date. Sandvox has been updated during that entire time, so by
   refactoring your site in Sandvox, you'll not only the advantage of
   working with a modern, more-capable tool, you'll get a site redesign in
   the process. (We run into this every few years ourselves. We're in the
   middle of a major site redesign for Take Control, and once that's done,
   we'll probably be turning our attention to TidBITS too, since what we
   did a few years back doesn't have that fresh feel any more.)

   Sandvox 2.6 works in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and later, and has been
   localized to French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Brazilian
   Portuguese, and Simplified Chinese. (The Japanese localization is also
   new in 2.6.) [5]It costs $79.99 for a single copy, or $119.99 for a
   household, with site licenses running $39.99 per seat. A free trial
   version is available. Although Sandvox is available in the Mac App
   Store, I recommend you buy directly from Karelia so the company keeps
   more of the revenue and can more easily provide you with support,
   should you need help.

References

   1. http://www.karelia.com/sandvox/
   2. http://www.karelia.com/news/the-long-story-behind-karel.html
   3. http://www.karelia.com/sandvox/help/z/Transitioning_from_iWeb.html
   4. http://tidbits.com/resources/2012-06/Sandvox-Extract-Content.png
   5. https://secure.karelia.com/buy_now/

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