SandyBeach

Thanks, samboll!

Yeah, I learned from a friend last night that the whole (old) iWeb/MobileMe architecture is not used with www.remarpro.com. The www.remarpro.com software, and all your pages, get installed on the host space you pay a hosting service for. It all lives there, and you edit your pages through a web interface from your computer (is that right>). Instant “publication” because you’re editing/changing the code (your pages) right were it exists on the web server where it’s stored.

So I guess it’s all really stored in the cloud (including the www.remarpro.com software used to edit all the pages and themes and widgets).

I didn’t even need to download and install the www.remarpro.com software on my Mac. In fact, instead, I should be installing it from www.remarpro.com directly to my space on web space hosting company (whoever I choose to go with). Now I know why so many hosting companies offer to set it up for you. Eliminates the middle man (my computer).

So here’s a question: what happens if I want to change to a different software (other than www.remarpro.com) 2 years down the road? How (well) is everything in www.remarpro.com format (including all the php pages) going to convert to something else?

I’ve already been burned (once) by iWeb. All the pages I created in iWeb looked like crap when pulled into Dreamweaver or Coda, so it was too hard to convert.

So before I lose my nerve, here are some questions:

1. Can I put Google adsense ads on my www.remarpro.com website?
2. Can I put videos on my www.remarpro.com website?
3. Apparently with the www.remarpro.com system/architecture, I will be using wordpress software on my own computer to build my site, which is then “hosted” on a commercial host like Laughing Squid that I buy a hosting account at and then link to the domain name of my website. Do I need an ftp program like Transmit (by Panic) to copy/update the date on my Mac up to the mirrored files on the host computer at Laughing Squid? Or does the www.remarpro.com software have something built-in that does that? (I’m used to clicking “Publish” when working in iWeb to instantly ftp new files up to my MobileMe-hosted website, and I don’t know how www.remarpro.com works.)

Thanks for any answers!