The money most folks invest in expensive web authoring software is probably wasted. Unfortunately, most companies no longer offer multiple products. Long gone are the days of Adobe Pagemill and Filemaker Home Page. The low end has now gone to open source or shareware products or cloud services generated through your browser (Google Sites).
I am taking another look at iWeb. While very professional looking (template based), I originally had two objections. First, the output of the design process was so complicated I would not rework anything unless I returned to iWeb. Second, the original versions were optimized for .Mac (mobileme) and while you could save your site the entire site had to be uploaded to a server after each change. My assumption here is that I was able to understand the process – if not and I am wrong about what was possible, I change my complaint to argue that it was far too complicated. The newest version has fixed the FTP upload issue. New and changed files are identified so uploading modifications to a site is fairly similar to Dreamweaver.
I am not likely to use iWeb to rework my existing sites, but as a personal or classroom web authoring program iWeb deserves a careful look.