Retro WYSIWYG⌗

Veteran Apple users might remember a piece of software from around the turn of the G4/G5 to Intel era called ‘iWeb’.

It was a functional, slightly clunky, WYSIWYG-style web editor that could also do basic content-management for the ‘flat-file’ sites it generated. Engaging themes made it perfect for the home blogger or small business, but not without quirks that rendered it less useful for anything more complicated.

Being a Windows user at the time, I was more used to stuff like Microsoft Frontpage or Macromedia Dreamweaver - but I’ve recently been test driving ‘Shuriken Tiger’ OS on my old Mac G4 MDD and thought I’d show you what iWeb could do.

You can see the result here. You can have a giggle at things like angled text pre-rendered as an image and a complete lack of scaling options to suit different devices.

You’ll need to click ‘back’ in your browser to escape the page, because I’m lazy and forgot to put a return hyperlink in.