Accessing an old iWeb page

I created a webpage with iWeb about 5 years ago. This site is continuosly in use and I have edited it twice since then but now I cannot access it. The title does not appear in the left hand column and the "visit" button at the bottom is greyed out. What am I not doing correctly ???

Don't quite what you mean by access your site via the 'visit' button to edit it?
You won't be able to do that anyway - after you publish your site to your server the visit button is available so that you can go and visit your published site on the server to view it without having to leave iWeb. That is all. Note the word 'PUBLISHED' here - you won't be able to edit anything because the site is published and iWeb can't do that as it has no import facility.
Do you understand that? The only thing that you can do is see if you have backed up your domain file somewhere else and see if it has the website in it.
Bottom line - if your website is not visible in iWeb, then you CANNOT make alterations to it using iWeb and you will have to re-build from scratch in iWeb and then remember to backup!

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Deleting old iWeb Pages

Hi there.
I've used iWeb from more than one computer with different iWeb domain libraries in the past. Deleted all the old pages & sites I don't need via iWeb but loggin on to me.com shows a lost of old pages that are still up there. Some from even very old iWeb libraries.
Tried manually deleting these stray pages via ME interface but can't delete files that way. Any advice on how to reset and clear my iWeb pages on the ME iDisk?

From Finder press Shift/Command/I to go to your iDisk. Enter your login credentials if necessary. From your iDisk you can view your published files. Select the folders/files you'd like to delete and press delete.

How to remove old iWeb pages off internet which are no longer in iWeb program?

This is my current looking website - www.pholife.co.uk
which goes to - 'www.pholife.co.uk/pholife/Start.html'
when googling 'pholife tom bird' an older website under the same domain name appears in the search list before the pholife/start.html page
The old website and various pages -
http://www.pholife.co.uk/pholife/pholife/Home.html
this website ^^^ was the same project as the professional looking one which i changed 6 months ago. If people google me, they will be led to a page which isnt the page I wish for them to see as it is ranked higher in the google search as it is older.
Some how along the line I removed the second 'pholife' from the URL so my new looking website has a different path I suppose.
How do i remove the 'www.pholife.co.uk/pholife/pholife/home.html' website all together, i have opened the package contents of iweb in application support but not sure where to start.
Lastly how do i remove the pholife/start so when people go to my website the URL is simply 'www.pholife.co.uk' in the URL bar, would it involve a homemade nav bar?
Thanks in advance!

Connect to your server and remove the files and folders you do not want there.
In time Google will forget about them.
If that's too much, simply rename the folder of your old site and never mention it to anyone.

How can I edit my old iWeb-page?

Started playing with iWeb in 08 and then forgot about it. Now I want to get started again and wish to use my old page. Is it possible to get all the info to my iWeb even though I don't have it on my computer? Or is the easiest thing just to start all over again?

Thanks.
Good reading. Unfortunately I was a bit eager and deleted my page online as well by trying to upload a new one just to see if that would give me an account-login. I was already logged in. :S Although I have used mac for several years I still have a lot to learn. :P But I'm starting againg. New page and a lot on my mind.

Can I access my old iWeb account on a new computer?

My computer crashed and with it went what I had built on iWeb. It is published to a site. My question is - can I somehow get everything back onto my new iWeb app without having to rebuild? And if I do have to rebuild how do I get it to overwrite the site that's currently up?
Any help is very much appreciated!
Please e-mail me directly at [email protected] Thanks.

Yes you can. Go into the System/MobileMe preference pane and log in to your MobileMe account. Once you're logged in you will be able to publish to your MMe account with iWeb.
If you have the domain.sites2 file from the old computer, put it in the User/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder and launch iWeb. If you don't have a copy of the domain file you'll have to rebuild the site from scratch. Paragraph 2.3 of this site, http://iwebfaq.org/site/iWebBackupretrieve.html, will have some tips on how to go about it.
As long as you give the new site the same name as the existing site, it will overwrite the existing site when you published it.
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Getting back my old iweb page?

I had to reinstall my OS, and now, I have my iweb site up on the web, but when I go to update it, since I reinstalled, there is a "clean site" on iweb.
How do I get my site back?

If you don't have it on your hard drive and didn't make a backup you will have to rebuild your site.
You cannot get your website data back into iWeb from the published files.

Accessing My Old Page With iWeb

I have put up a website using iWeb on a .mac account::
web.mac.com/jupiterspaceport
But I a while back had to clear my disk and re-install the whole system.
Ever since then I cannot get back to my page using iWeb. For when I start it up
the program asks me to create a new page, and does not remember my old page
that is already published.
How do I re-access my old web-page using iWeb?

Hello read this
specifically
All the information iWeb needs to create your websites is in one file known as the Domain file. The Domain file's default location is ~/Library/Application Support/iWeb (the tilde (~) represents your home directory) If no Domain file exists, you will be prompted to create a new site.
Your iWeb project is gone! You have to rebuild your site. Visiting your website online and copying/pasting elements into iWeb may help to rebuild your site a little faster.

New computer, how can I sync my old published iWeb page with new compuer?

I had my old macbook stolen a year ago in Italy. I created and published an iWeb page to .mac on that computer. My problem is that I cannot figure out how I can sync my old page on .mac to my new computer so that I can continue to use it and upload pics. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Hello,
and welcome the Apple iWeb Discussion Forum.
Basically you can't figure it out because there is no way to get published pages back into iWeb. iWeb lacks of any html import feature. The only thing you can do is rebuild it by copying and pasting content from the published one to the rebuilt in iWeb. However for photopages that isn't a good idea, it's better to rebuild them from scratch (iPhoto).
Be sure to make a backup of the domain.sites2 file (where iWeb stores) its files from time to time
http://alyeska.altervista.org/en/iWebBackupWebsite.html
Regards,
Cédric

Old .mac photo pages and new iweb pages

I have photo albums and movies previously published on a .mac homepage. I also have new photo album pages published through iweb. Are the two connected or related in any way? Do I just have to republish the old pages through iweb, or should they be linked or transferred. Is there any published information about this stuff anywhere?

Sure you can. You can provide links and redirection html pages back and forth between .Mac Homepages and iWeb pages. WillG4PB has put together a nice tutorial that I will refer you to...
http://web.mac.com/will.englefield/iWeb/WillG4PB/How2.html
If this is useful information to you, please do me a favor and mark this reply as "solved" or "helpful" using the little buttons that you see in the title bar of my reply. I appreciate it immensely!

Can I convert my old 35 page IWeb website to IWeb 09?

I currently have a 35 page website that I created in the old IWeb. I want to update to OSX panther and
I Web09. Will there be any issues opening the old website and working with it in 09?
Thanks for any help.
John

John:
There shouldn't but be sure to keep a backup of the 08 domain file before you open it for the first time with iWeb 09.
You mean upgrade to Leopard, right? I'd run Disk Utility and repair disk permissions first followed by a verify of the disk. If repairs are indicated boot into the leopard install disk and run Disk Utility to repair the disk from the Utilities menu in the first window after the language selection window.
Install Leopard and then run the 10.5.6 COMBO updater. You can get it from the Apple Downloads page. I find it safer to download and run the necessary updaters manually.
If you want to keep iWeb 08 available just in case make a copy of the application and name it iWeb 08. Then the iLife 09 installer will update the plain iWeb application and leave that one untouched.
There have been issues with the red site and page icons making it necessary to publish every page each time you make a change to just one page. I've gotten around that by creating a new site for each page of my family site (currently have 79) so that I only have one site (usually consisting of only one page- a photo page) to edit and upload each time. This keeps the domain file size down.
You can link to a another iWeb site in the navbar by creating a blank page with the name of the other site and adding the following code to an HTML snippet on that blank page:
<script type="text/javascript">
parent.location.replace('URL TO SITE/PAGE YOU WANT TO REDIRECT TO');
</script>
This will immediately redirect the visitor to the other site. A return button can be put on the other site's page (I turn off the navbar in those sites which act as individual pages) so it appears like part of one big site.
If you're interested in that approach this is how I split up my original multi site domain file. You would first create a new site and drag page 1 to it. Then create a new site and drag page 2 to it. Again keep a backup of your original domain file.
I use iWebSites to manage over 40 individual sites.. It lets me create multiple sites and multiple domain files.
If you have multiple sites in one domain file here's the workflow I used to split them into individual site files with iWebSites. Be sure to make a backup copy of your original Domain.sites files before starting the splitting process and move it to another location on your HD until you're satisfied the separation process is completed and what you want.
This lets me edit several sites and only republish the one I want.
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How can I access my IWeb page created on an iBook that has a crashed hardd.

I can´t make changes to my iWeb pages from my new iBook. The iBook i used to create the iWeb has crashed and I did not have back up. Is there any way to access and make changes to my iWeb.

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Putting link in old Mac homepage to new iWeb page

Hi there is there anyway of putting a link in my old mac.com homepage that would link to my new iWeb page?
Thanks
Gareth

Are you replacing the old homepage site with a new iWeb one or keeping it and just linking? If it's the later you would have to do some html editing since the homepage sites are no longer editable online like they once were. The code would look something like this:
TEXT
Go to your iDisk/Sites folder and locate the old site's folder. In it will be the html file for the first page. Open it with a text/html editor like the free TextWrangler, locate where you want to have the link appear and add the code above.
Replace the URL with the URL of your new site and replace TEXT with whatever you want to appear, like "Click here to go to the new site", etc.
Let me know if you plan on replacing the old site with the new iWeb site and want a redirect link to automatically send visitors from the old site to the new one.
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Change URL for accessing iWeb pages

Hi,
I'm publishing to a folder and my site is being hosted on a Godaddy account.
The problem I am having, is that I do not like the long URLs that each of my iWeb pages has. For example if I want to forward a link, it's something like "www.domain.com/SITENAME/PAGENAME/FILE." I'd much rather have something cleaner like "www.domain.com/blog" or "blog.domain.com" to forward as a link.
I've been searching around for an answer and found info on Domain Forwarding, Domain Masking, CNames and subdomains. But none of this has fixed the issue. I thought domain forwarding/masking would, but when I entered the info in to GoDaddy my site still had the long URLs when I navigated to it.
Is there anyway to either hide those long URLs or edit the site to shorten the names of the pages? If someone could put up a clear roadmap, step by step, of how to fix this issue that would be great.

I believe GoDaddy offers CNAM forwarding and masking for sites they host. They do for sites hosted on MobileMe. The CNAME method will give the following in the URL window:
CNAME
The CNAME method as setup will display:
DomainName.com/SiteName/Page1.html
DomainName.com/SiteName/page2.html
This will display http://DomainName/SiteName/PageName.html for each of the pages and will let visitors bookmark individual pages.
F+rom Akdream in Support Domain Name, what is it all about
This is how it is when you host the site on MobileMe and it should work if you host it on GoDaddy. It will give you what you want so check with GoDaddy and see if and how to activate it.
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Deleting old iweb site

i have an old iweb site from 2006 that i need to bring down yet do not have the original domain file. Google webmaster denied request to make it unsearchable.
any ideas on how to do this?

Where are you hosting the site? If it's MobileMe just mount your iDisk, go to the iDisk/Web/Sites folder and drag the site folder to the trash bin in the Dock.
If it's a 3rd party hosting service, can you access the server with an FTP client like Transmit or the free Cyberduck which lets you access your directory/folder in a Finder like window? If so then just select the site folder and drag it to the trash.
If you can't access the server to delete files create a new site with iWeb, one that has the same site name and only one blank page, and publish that to the server.
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Adding Flickr to iWeb page

Hi. I'm trying to add a link to my iWeb pages which has my Flickr photos on. How do I do it? I know how to just add an ordinary link, but I want to to add one of those links that I see on other blogs that show little thumbnails of the photos.
Hope it makes sense!

If you can get the code from Flickr, you can add it to your iWeb page after publishing.
Here are some basic instructions for making html changes after publishing in iWeb:
1. Type a placeholder in place of where you want the item to go. i.e. CODEGOESHERE or something like that. Publish your site via iWeb
2. Find your html files.
Go to iDisk/Web/Sites/iWeb/Sitename/Pagename.html
(If you publish to a folder, look in the folder you selected or try looking in your Sites folder of your home folder. )
There are two ways to handle accessing your iDisk.
Method 1:
Turn on local copy of your iDisk in System Prefs, with or without automatic syncing.
If you publish your site via iWeb, now the updated pages exist online but the old pages are on your local iDisk. You need to sync (automatically or manually) to get the new pages on your local iDisk (on your computer).
Then you can open the updated files, make your html changes in Text Edit or whatever program, and SYNC AGAIN (automatically or manually) to update the online version of the site to match what you have just changed on your local iDisk
Method 2:
Mount the iDisk when needed via the "Go" menu in Finder. This is the ONLINE VERSION of your iDisk, not a local copy. When you publish your site via iWeb, the changes INSTANTLY appear on the iDisk on your desktop. If you make html edits or other changes, they appear INSTANTLY online.
I recommend Method 2 - much easier!!!
3. Make the html changes.
You can open the html files generated by iWeb in any text or html editor. In TextEdit, to view the code in an HTML file, choose File > Open and select "Ignore rich text commands." Then locate the .html file (as described in step 2) and click Open.
Make your changes (i.e. replace CODEGOESGERE with your code!) and don't forget to save your changes (not Save As, just Save)!!!
4. Remember, if you make a change to a page like this post-publishing, and later re-publish, you have to make the html changes again! Set up a Find/Replace command in MassReplaceIt and you can do this very quickly. You can save your queries so you can make all of your changes with one click the next time you save.
Download here:
http://www.hexmonkeysoftware.com

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