I can't believe I'm giving a negative rating to an Apple product, this is a first. But only to warn people not to buy iWeb/iLife until they get the bugs fixed in iWeb '08.

My small business site I created in iWeb 06 is not rendering correctly in iWeb '08 2.0.1

I didn't start using '08 until the 2.0.1 fix was issued, so this is all under 2.0.1. I didn't move or rename my site, I opened it in 2.0.1 which had made a few changes to the '06 created pages. I went thru and corrected the changes, mainly font & spacing changes until it resembled the site I created and saved.

In iWeb the pages look great. But when I publish the pages several font and spacing changes are made in the published pages different from the changes I corrected in converting a '06 site to '08, mainly: some fonts are converted to bold and spacing changes are made so that it is no longer WYSIWYG: the pages in iWeb still look great, the published pages look terrible and unusable.

The process of publishing the pages is changing fonts and spacing so that the published pages are far different than the unpublished pages. It's no longer WYSIWYG like iWeb '06/1.x was.

I've given this feedback to Apple and posted this on their support forum which is full of many similar and other complaints on iWeb '08.

iWeb '06 1.1.2 was great, but this one needs much work!

Unfortunately I can't recommend it unless they issue a major fix.

In the meantime, RapidWeaver, Sandvox, and iWeb '06 are good alternatives.