Better than Iweb?

I've got a shiny new mac, and it comes with all this free softare. Having gotten over my initial aggravation with iPhoto (will retroactively post that stuff sometime), and gotten over my snobbery at the limitations of free software, I'm sort of leaning into it.

Iweb doesn't create real HTML. It isn't a real HTML editor. Coming from Dreamweaver and Frontpage, I was very snotty and horrified at the thought of using it. However, one day I needed to post some pics of a church event where everyone could get to them. And I wanted to do it fast. And here's the beauty of Apple: it's not always poweful, it's not always technically correct, but it's FAST, and fairly elegant to be slopped together. So with barely any effort, voila, I had a slideshow of photos and a website up.

Thus my initial complain about switching to mac: macs are for idiots. But guess what? I like the option of being an idiot if I want to. Now that I'm trying to be productive, rather than prove my mental prowess at untangling knots of computer logic, maybe being an idiot is a great luxury. It costs thought - macs are pretty damn expensive. That's why I never really switched before. Macs are definitely in the domain of the wealthy, but after my tour, I entered those ranks. So I pay for the ability to slop together a generic, yet elegant website in 20 minutes or less.

Now moving on. Iweb has converted me to the concept of simpler is better. If I can build something that's GOOD ENOUGH, maybe I shouldn't always be so quick to crack open Dreamweaver or Photoshop.

So I've played with iweb, and it's sort of created a monster in me. The mac side of me wants easy and pretty, but the PC side of me wants MORE. I'm bored of the templates, and modifying them officially to create more templates is SO much work and so esoteric that it'd be better to design from scratch in Photoshop, chop it up and code it in Dreamweaver. Also, there is a freeware/shareware alternative for Dreamweaver on the mac platform called Nvu which is pretty darn sexy (score 1 for mac).

I've looked into iweb templates from third party vendors, and I'll talk about that later, but iweb 2.0 broke a lot of vendor's templates, so that turned me off some.

So now I have the iweb mindset, with a pc hunger for customization. So I wonder outloud, is there anything like iweb, just better? PS - most mac users are SO complacent that the search for the phrase "better than iWeb" (for things posted w/in the last 6 months) only comes up with 7 hits on google!

Here's what I've come up with so far for WYSWYG editors most like iweb for mac:

Rapidweaver
Sandvox
Goldfish
Freeway
and
Shutterbug

Also just found out about
Galerie and
Joomla.

No reviews just yet. I'll revisit this and also revise some of this post before I go on to in depth reviews and screenshots etc. But this is what I've found to be out there. Y'all let me know if you find other stuff. So far, the order I listed them in appears to be the order I prefer. Although Sandvox appears to be stronger, it has less theme offerings than Rapidweaver. Shutterbug actually might be my fave, but it's more specific in it's purpose. I'll let you know.

In terms of more traditional approaches to web design, there are some more apps to consider:
SeaMonkey Composer - Mozilla
Style Master - Mozilla (CSS prog)
NVU - already mentioned
Good page and
Kompozer - apparently an offshoot/update of NVU