How to make a (partly) password protected website

Question

I would like to know if it is possible to make a web site (by using iWeb and MobileMe) that is partly public and partly password protected?

Answer 1

You can do it that way. But you can make it look like one web site. In Site 1 (the open site) add a blank page with the name for the protected site. In that blank page add the following code to an HTML snippet:
<script type="text/javascript">
parent.window.location = "URL TO PAGE 1 OF PROTECTED SITE"; </script>
The "dummy" page will immediately redirect the visitor to the protected site. To get back the the main site you can put in a dummy page and add the same redirect code sending the visitor back to the original site. This puts the links in the navbar and makes it look like all one site. If you have more than one protected page and want them to be separate of each other create a separate protected site and do the same for it.
To get the URL for the page you want to redirect to you need to publish the sites first, go to them and get the URL from the browser's window.
My Demo Sites are setup this way. The Contents page for each site is redirected to a separate Contents site which contains the index of all the pages in the three demo sites. That way I only have to change the index on the Contents site instead of doing it for each site individually.
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