iWeb part of iLife ’06?

Every once in a while, every couple of Macworld’s, some web publisher at Apple or an affiliated partner accidentally leaks a bit of information regarding a product that is due to be released at the show. Remember the G5 specs that showed up on the Apple Store website the weekend before Jobs’ keynote? Or ATI bragging about the specs of their graphic card that was about to be released in a new Power Mac?

Well, it looks like someone at Apple has done it again. Earlier today on the Garageband website, a vague link/reference to “iWeb” appeared. The website was quickly updated and all references to iWeb were removed. However, the site was cached by Google and can be viewed here.

The announcement of iLife ’06 was about as sure a thing as you can get in an Apple keynote. Apple has used the San Francisco Macworld to announce iLife for the last two years, and before that, it was the launching pad for the individual applications themselves.

We’ll have to wait until Tuesday to find out more about iWeb, but seeing as it is part of the iLife suite, you can rest assured that it will be geared towards consumers and not serious, professional web developers. I had always thought that if Apple did a website building application, it would have been part of the iWork suite, not iLife. But it makes sense to have an application that will tie in to iPhoto, iMovie, and Garageband to publish those applications media on the web.

Category: Software