2006 iWeb

For a lot of Mac users, the iWeb app, which was part of the iLife suite, was their first introduction to web design. In typical Apple fashion, it made easy something that people saw as alien and confusing. It let you choose the look of your website from a series of ready-made templates and then simply replace the placeholder text with your own. Adding images and videos was as straightforward as dragging and dropping them into place, and when you were ready for the world to see your design, all you had to do was click Publish and your website would go live on Apple’s MobileMe platform.

It wasn’t all smooth sailing though. Making iWeb sites compatible across a number of web browsers proved to be a headache. Meanwhile, Apple began focusing on uniting many of its software offerings into iCloud, and its rivals overtook iWeb. The app died when Apple closed MobileMe in 2012, but it lives on in the hearts of the many web designers who got their first taste with iWeb.