[ghost r's]

I am really considering getting iWeb (iLife) to quickly put together a site for photos. I have lots of experience with Dreamweaver, I just don't have a lot of time to work on my own stuff.

I have my own server so I really don't want to have to pony up the $100 for a .Mac account that I wouldn't use accept for the site.

So my question is: What features and functionality do you lose by not posting a site created in iWeb on .mac? Keeping in mind that I love the quick ability to drop photos into the site and have it create an album for me.

Other suggestions?

[MacosNerd]

The .mac photo gallery and one stop publishing are the two biggest features that come to mind.

If you wish to publish a website other then .mac, you'll need to publish it to a folder then ftp it to your web host.

Other then that I'm not really sure what you lose w/o .mac.

You can still create photo galleries and such with iweb.

[ghost r's]

Right. I have seen that I just publish to a folder then upload. No problem.

I just want to know if there are any specific features (animations, plugins, popup windows, etc) that only work when you use a .mac website.

[iREZ]

i havent noticed anything not working by not using .mac to publish a iweb site.

[besson3c]

If you have access to a server I would suggest installing or using Gallery and the free Gallery iPhoto plug-in to publish your photos. It seems to me that this would be a much better system than creating a web site and picking out the parts that have changed or uploading the whole damn thing again every time you add a photo.