Photograph by Grandpa, July 4, 2006.  The lousy cropping is my fault; the original is framed quite beautifully.

 

 

It might.  And it’s not that SandVox is without irritants - it just has fewer, and it has some really nice features that I’ve felt the lack of with iWeb.  For one thing: comments, and without weird configuration issues.  For another thing: a built-in ftp client.  For a third thing: when you publish the site, it only uploads diffs.  Oh, bliss!  That’s been the biggest iWeb pain for me - publishing to disk and running recursive checksums to see which pages are different.  With SandVox, one click and I’m all done.

 

Of course, I haven’t developed a really large site yet with SandVox.  They’ve got more templates, but in odd ways they’re less configurable.  I haven’t tried them on non-Safari browsers yet, either (and in all fairness iWeb seems to have cleaned up some of the strange rendering bugs they had earlier).

 

I’ll certainly maintain a hybrid set of sites for a while.  I’ve been using SandVox for largely text-only stuff so far - or maybe I’m just getting better at web design!  As lovely as it is to have an adorable Emily picture with every blog entry, it makes for a BIG, SLOW SITE.  Which probably wouldn’t matter to me if it weren’t for the dreadful satellite internet we’ve got - but that’s another issue.  (Keep your fingers crossed for Princeton Electric.  We’re hoping to see in-town broadband by the end of the year.)

 

What it comes down to is this: I don’t have anything different to say, but I’m having an awfully good time twiddling with these WYSIWSG tools.