iWeb Communities: Blog

The iWeb blog was one of the first tools used by the company to communicate news and system updates to its customers, with the first ever post published in March 2003, more than 5 years ago.

Since then, iWeb has grown steadily, opening new data centers and offices, adding new services and products. The blog grew organically, following the company’s growth; but as time passed by, we saw the need for an improved tool for communication.

One of the problems you might have noticed is that it was very difficult to navigate inside the blog, or find old pieces of information. Simple things like trying to see the current status of the iWeb systems was also very difficult.

That’s how it was decided to build a brand-new iWeb blog.

If you read this by RSS, you might want to come over the website and see the visual and layout changes.

One of the first big difference is that we have now 3 different “channels”: iWeb, Web development and Web Hosting. iWeb will have all the news from the iWeb company, such as new products, new infrastructure or other official news. Web development is geared to iWeb customers who are building their website; we will share there regularly tips and news about designing, programming and marketing your website. Finally, Web hosting will have articles about the hosting industry, with articles about latest hosting conferences, new technologies, and also explaining why iWeb is choosing a technology for its infrastructure.

These 3 channels were implemented because we are aware that not all of you are interested in every topic that is published on this blog; you can for example choose to only subscribe just to one channel.

Because of the importance of status updates, these also have a brand-new section… that will be covered in a later post.

Another focus during the development of the new iWeb blog was feedback given by the iWeb community. This goes from current iWeb customers, visitors, future customers, outside partners or iWeb employees. To create a healthy community, with improved communication, we have implemented simple features like post rating, a better display for comments, a new blogroll etc.

But those are just simple tools, and our intention goes beyond that. To celebrate the launch of the new iWeb blog, we plan for instance to feature iWeb customers in this blog, telling YOUR experience with iWeb (like this). If you are interested, then please leave a comment, and we’ll contact you. For you, it’s an opportunity to showcase your current project & websites, and also tell your side of the story.