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Product Overview

.Mac

iWeb Publishing, Blogging, and Podcasting

Web publishing has become as elegant as it is easy with iLife ’06 and .Mac. This

exciting new approach to creating media-rich websites includes the following features:

• Drag-and-drop web page authoring. Use iWeb in iLife ’06 to create beautiful media-

rich web pages using Apple-designed templates. You can include text, photos, movies,

and links, as well as blogs and rich media podcasts you’ve created with iLife ’06. iWeb

manages your site by adding links to each page in a navigation bar.

• Single-click publishing through .Mac. When you’ve ﬁ nished creating your site,

publish your pages to .Mac with a single click. It’s that easy.

• Blogging as easy as email. Use iWeb to create and manage attractive blogs, with

point-and-click management of entries and automatic archiving. .Mac works with

iWeb to create subscription links and automatically manage RSS feeds for your blog.

• Rich media podcasting with ease. Use GarageBand 3 to create a podcast of any

type, ranging from a simple audio recording to a podcast including photos and

chapter markers. Or use iMovie HD 6 to create a video podcast.

Send your podcast

to iWeb, then publish to .Mac with a single click, complete with subscription links and

RSS feeds.

• Sites for .Mac Groups. Easily add websites created with iLife ’06 and .Mac to the

“Our pages” section of any group page. You can create a website for each one of your

groups if you like.

• Announcement email. Let your friends and family know the minute you publish a

new version of your website, blog, or podcast. When you publish your pages, click

the notiﬁ cation button to have Mac OS X Mail create an email message with the

announcement and link to your site.

• Password protection. Keep any site private by setting a password. You can easily

change the password whenever you want.

• Ad-free pages. Web pages hosted on .Mac show no one’s content but your own. All

.Mac services, including websites, are ad-free.

For more information about iWeb publishing, blogging, and podcasting, see “Express

Yourself with .Mac and iLife ’06” on page 10.

Online Slideshow Viewer

iLife ’06 includes an exciting new way to publish slideshows on the web. Just send

one of your iPhoto albums to iWeb, choose a template, then publish your page to

.Mac with a single click.

iWeb photo pages include a “start slideshow” button that links to a sophisticated

new slideshow viewer. The viewer takes advantage of a leading-edge web technology

known as AJAX to produce a seamless viewing experience on the web.

The new .Mac slideshow viewer o∂ ers the following advantages:

• Elegant background. Your slides will look stunning against the viewer’s dramatic

black background, complete with a reﬂ ection e∂ ect at the bottom of the slide.

• Automatic playback. The slideshow plays automatically when it opens. You can use

convenient controls at the bottom of the screen to pause the presentation or to step

forward and backward through the slides.