iweb an inot for web designers

What was Apple thinking?? That was the question I asked myself when an older friend of mine (a true progressive I tell yah; she has Parkinsons and she is not slowing down at all) asked me to help her upload a website she needed to promote her photography collection which she intended to have on display at an upcoming art show in January. First of all, the idea of using only Mac-created templates, that were so rigid in design that you had no other options, is absolutely absurd. You have no choice but to give up and realize that you just completely wasted your $79.99 (Hey, Steve Jobs, the old lady wants her money back!!!) Who would have thought, with the success of the iPod and iMac lines of products, that iWeb would be so disappointing. One would have thought iWeb was going to be Apple's answer to Adobe's golive and dreamweaver. But, with no room for integration with other languages, no forms, no room for personal creativity in terms of design (you have only Mac templates) and strict server options (you need a .mac account to use iWeb and you can't easily store it on another server of your choice using ftp), iWeb is nothing more than a waste of hard drive space. To try to figure out what possessed Apple to distribute the product, I went to the Mac store in La Jolla, CA. I asked one of the fine Mac store agents how exactly to get around using the software and he told me that Apple is still experimenting with iWeb and that better versions will come out later. At point I thought to myself, "Keep that s**t in your lab until it has some use to the general public." In conclusion, my personal verdict--iWeb is definitely an iNot for web designers!!!