At The Edge...

There’s a place in this world that looks like the edge of creation. Its time-chiseled rock formations have the appearance of a pre-historic wasteland. It’s a place that was thrust from the ocean depths when the Pacific and North American tectonic plates began their cataclysmic collide. It’s a place at the edge of a great American metropolis and it’s the place that’s been chosen to test Apple’s iWeb component of iLife ’09.

Is iWeb on the cutting edge of Web creation tools for creative hobbyists seeking to tell a story or showcase their personal celebration of life?

We invite you to follow the creation of an iWeb-based site and its evolution from a few modest pages to a site that tells a story about life at the edge of America’s largest population center and at the edge of where the greatest of natural disasters might occur at any moment of any day. With iWeb and the other elements of iLife ’09 used exclusively as the content creation tools, this site is being crafted for a hands-on review of iWeb that will appear in the May issue of ATPM.

A Day At The Rocks...

On Saturday, February 28th we hiked the trails at Vasquez Rocks. The location of these spectacular rock formations is pinpointed on the Google map to the right. The area is part of the San Andreas Fault system. Photos from that day’s exploration are featured in a MobileMe gallery that accompanies this iWeb-based site.

Using iPhoto, a component of iLife ’09, and Apple Aperture 2.1.2 a few of the digital shots will be woven into the site pages as well. To follow the development of our review site, please visit Blog Posts From The Edge. It’s also linked at the top of the page.

Thank you for joining us on this digital journey to the edge of America’s largest metropolis and to the edge of where two massive tectonic plates collide.

Welcome To Readers of ATPM...

We debuted mention of this iWeb-based review site in the March Welcome of About This Particular Macintosh. ATPM is one of the longest running Apple-focused Internet magazines in continuing publication today. From its start in 1995, ATPM has chronicling the personal computing experience for our many readers. It’s only fitting a comprehensive review of Apple’s iWeb component of the iLife ’09 product suite would appear in a publication that began in the days when the Internet first began to revolutionize the way we view and communicate with the world.

Widget Wonderland...

Forget for a moment page design conventions. We’re using this page to celebrate the Widgets available in iWeb. There’s a MobileMe Gallery Widget that allows iWeb users to place a photo portal on the page. On the left is a selection of photos from a MobileMe gallery. The photos in the gallery were taken while hiking the trails at Vasquez Rocks. In viewing the images it’s easy to forget the area is at the northern edge of the great Los Angeles metropolis. The photos selected were designed to showcase the area as a kind of pre-historic wasteland. Long submerged under the Pacific Ocean, these sedimentary rock formations were pushed above the surface by natural forces of a magnitude almost unimaginable. Within sight at the top of the cliffs is the CA-14 freeway that links the northern Los Angeles County cities of Lancaster, Palmdale and Santa Clarita to the City of Angels.