Iweb and homepage url

Hello! I am very new to iweb. I would like my url to look like: http://web.mac.com/user name, but instead it looks like: http://web.mac.com/user name/Site/Welcome.html.
I am sure there is a very simple way to fix this, but I can't figure it out. Any help would be appreciated!

Unfortunately not. That is the way that websites made in iWeb and published to MobileMe will look like. The url will always be http://web.me.com/username/sitename/Welcome.html.
It is just that you have to call your site something in iWeb. It won't accept it otherwise, so you could shorten it even more to something like S so it would then be web.me.com/username/S/Welcome.html. The only other way is to register a domain name and then use masked forwarding so all you get as a url is www.yourdomainname.com.

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Iweb and homepage

Hello,
Trying out iweb and finding it obviously a thousand miles better than the old way : Homepage...
However, I have been using Homepage for several years and all my family/friends are starting to remember that url which was already not the simplest of all: http://homepage.mac.com/$appleid. Quite OK though... With iweb, It seems that they will have to get used to another url which is even worse...Any idea on how to make this transition easier and friendly.
- I don't like much the idea of redirecting the users through a message "Please visit us at our new url...."
- I have seen that some users have just bought a domain and redirect automatically to the right site...That's nice but costly, no ?
Any idea would be welcome.
Thank you.
G.
Powerbook 15 Alu

Hi
I am one of the many who have bought a domain, as above $8 a year, but from ez-domainnameregistration.com (buying the domain for 5 years reduced it to $8 a year).
It is very easy to do, just sign up with a provider and set your domain to automatically forward to your iWeb address.
Godaddy gets a lot of good press on this board as well.
Good luck
Will

What is the difference iWeb and Homepage

I'm trying to back up everything I had published to my iDisk (over several years) before installing Lion. The Gallery files were easy. But I'm confused about iWeb and a folder called "HomePage." The movies I had on iWeb...I could see and download. However, older movies are in a folder called HomePage. If I click on these older movies, I get a Quicktime Question mark symbol. For example, older movie 1 is located at: http://homepage.mac.com/username/iMovieTheater22.html and I cannot see it or download it. New movies, seem to be located in a different place, for example: http://web.me.com/username/myname/Austin_is_4!.html
Am I just out of luck?
Is there any way to retrieve the old movies?
Possibly worth noting...the old movies were probably published on an old MBP.

Homepage was Apple's early website hosting effort and that has been discontinued for quite a while now. The files created for the Homepage websites will reside on your iDisk in the iDisk/Sites folder.
Mount your iDisk on the Desktop and go to the Web folder. There will be the html files for the various websites and pages. The photo and video files used in those sites should be located in the Pictures and Movies folders.
For MobileMe websites all files for them will be inside folders in the iDisk/Web/Sites folder.
OT

Is iWeb and Homepage diffeent?

I wish to have photos available to see. I do not understand if there is a diffeence between Homepage and iWeb. If there is a difference, which is best to use?
I would be adding and changing the photos periodically.
I had set up a "Homepage" but cannot get into it to delete it. How do I do this?

The differences:
Homepage uses an online editor within the .Mac service and sites have a URL:
http://homepage.mac.com/userid/...
iWeb uses an offline editor and sites have a URL:
http://web.mac.com/userid/iWeb/...
iWeb is much more flexible and for your photos you can use iWeb's Photos template which has an optional slideshow feature. Also clicking on a Photos template thumbnail causes the full-size image to appear in a pop-up window. More info about iWeb's photo capabilities is here...
http://www.apple.com/support/iweb/media/
http://www.apple.com/support/iweb/hottips/
This thread may answer your qstn about deleting your homepage...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1100978&#1100978
Changing your .Mac HomePage start page (or default page)...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107471
Frequently asked questions (FAQ) about .Mac HomePage...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=31328

IWeb and Dreamweaver

Since it seems iWeb doesn't support Flash animations, I'd like to use Dreamweaver 8/Flash 8 as part of the Web-publishing workflow.
However, much like the Contribute thread, it doesn't seem to be very straightforward, and my suspicion is the index.html file that is created with iWeb (and HomePage).
Can anyone tell me how to properly use Dreamweaver once an iWeb site is published?

Scott
I may be wrong, but if my memory serves my correctly, there were some threads about using flash created in iWork (Keynotes I think).
I have no idea if this will meet your requirements, but I am sure that there were some sample sites posted.
Just turned up this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1667896&#1667896
Will

IWeb to Homepage

I am so confused with iWeb and Homepage. I have been posting to my homepage for a few years. Should I transfer these pictures to iWeb? How? Then send out new address? Can you set up a counter? How do I choose different designs? Should I figure homepage is not used anymore.

I am also confused I just created a web sight with my
new I life 06 but I don't know what the purpose of a
homepage is for?
Imac 5
Mac OS X (10.4.3)
The purpose of homepage offered as a part of .mac is to create a simple personal website at .mac based on a collection of templates and layouts offered by Apple. iWeb essentially does the same thing.
The difference is iWeb runs on the mac you are sitting in front of, and homepage runs on .mac servers. Theoretically iWeb provides better ease of use because it is a regular mac app like iPhoto, Safari, iMovie, etc.
If you haven't used homepage from .mac, don't have a .mac membership then you probably don't care about it and should continue to work with iWeb.
Last time I checked homepage didn't have a practical way to do blogging. Theoretically iBlog solved that problem, but the integration with homepage was about as bad as that between homepage and iWeb. Which is to say their was none, but you could use both of them anyhow to publish to your .mac homepage. Anyway iWeb has blogging as a template, if that sort of thing appeals to you.

IPhoto '06 iweb/NO HOMEPAGE SUPPORT and two computers - what is best?

I am a science teacher(+PhD student) - and use my powerbook for work/study and my imac as general file store and workhorse. I very dependant on .Mac to swap info and publish web pages(mostly pictures) on the fly etc. I need a reliable system because I simply don't have time to mess around.
I have just upgraded both computers to iLife '06 and have discovered that my workflows are going to be bothered - there is no way to edit iweb from both computers - and most importantly share photo files from both(most of my colleagues don't use safari and iPhoto RSS is thus redundant) Now the Homepage button has gone - I can really only run my .Mac picture files from my powerbook. Anything from the imac will have to be data pinned accross/networked. More hassel. I am really cross about this.
I would just like to be able to load up loads of pictures on to webpage, then later on when I have time to url them with iweb.
I don't have time to fuss about using idisk and homepage online - too time consuming. I don't want pretty - I just need to be able to communicate the information.
Shunting photos to a home page was simple way of letting people see your pictures (mostly electron micrsoscope pictures in my case!) - I could send the link in an email and bingo! XP users can join the fun.
So unless Apple read this and come to their senses sometime soon and allow multi location editing of iweb AND reinstate homepage support in iPhoto '06 I need to desperatly find a solution.
I notice a similar rant (though more a slanging affair at Apple has been locked! - why?)
I will have to reinstall iPhoto '05 on the iMac at least. Apparently it is possible to run both concurrently using an external/partitioned drive with the OS on it, is this correct?
I assume this means the other drive with the OSX on it will thus have it's own directory structure Library/Application Support etc - so there will be not conflict with the main system. Is this correct? What about my home directory - will iPhoto '05 and iPhoto '06 display the same photos - just with a different interface?
On the iMac I will just need to use the start up disks which have iPhoto '05 on them.
Other options involve getting an other web server and use something like Dreamweaver (well actually MacJournal has a simple web page creation tool - enough for me!) - but again I will have my swift work flow ruined.
I could spend hours fiddling with this - but I think a back step to iphoto '05 on my imac is the only option - but I lose out on the vast photo storage that iphoto '06 allows. On balance it is the better option.
Any one out there have a basic run through of what I need to do - or any one have any ideas? I am not a computer dunce - I simply don't have the time to be constantly fiddling with things.
As they say "you can take my money, my belongings, maybe even my missus! - all are replaeable - but no one can replace time wasted!
12" Powerbook G4 60GB/1.33GHz/1.25GB RAM/Combo +20" iMac G5 250GB/2.1GHz/1.5GB Both 10.6.4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Welcome to iLife 06,
This is a major problem, and you'll notice that this discussion area is ripe with users like you and I who are furious over this. Apple has just orphaned Homepage.
Here's a thread where we were discussing it and some people posted work arounds. Notice that this thread has been locked! The only locked thread I've ever seen on an Apple board. What's that all about?!
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=331564&tstart=0
Share your concerns directly with Apple. Let's hope that an upgrade or batch comes out soon that re-enables Homepage or that at least provides some way to migrage the pictures over. I have 100s of such pictures, now orphaned.
Best,
- Seth

IWeb and old homepage file sharing

Hello Everyone,
I'm having better luck with iWeb and progress is being made. My question is:
(Since I have many of my stories and images scanned as .pdfs I want to put them somewhere and then just make one link back to the stored files so that my editors and readers can pick and download what they want.)
Should I use my idisk to store the pdfs in bulk or should I use something that iWeb has that I don't know about?
-Mark

I want to put them somewhere and then just
make one link back to the stored files so that my
editors and readers can pick and download what they
want.
You could put them all in your iDisk public folder and then create an iWeb page that consists of a list of individual hyperlinks to these files. Or you could create an iWeb page with links to all these files while they are on your local drive, and it will copy them and upload them as an integral part of the iWeb site. You might want to test the options with just a couple files to see what works best.

Iweb home page url

Hi.
On my website I have the word /home written after the homepage url.
i.e www.coolexample.com/home
Is it possible to get rid of the word home? and just have www.coolexample.com?
I'm using fetch to upload my site.
Many Thanks

@mood
iWeb is a nice tool and as far as wysiwyg software it really does the job.
A little digging in the code it generates reveals that it uses a lot of DIV containers to lock the various graphic items into their place. The contents of these div's are stored in a seperate pagename_folder.
So if you have a page called : demo.html then you will find all the resources of that in demo_files.
Downside to this extra folder stuff is that you will be uploading a lot of the same files over and over.
I have yet to find a sollution for this.
Now to get rid of the Home issue, as I said in the first post, Publish to a local folder and then go into that folder into the HOME folder and from there upload everything you see there into the www-root of your ftp server and you should end up with http://www.yourdomain.com/demo.html
I do agree with you that this is all not as you would expect.

IWeb and .mac confusion

I was hoping someone could enlighten me on the difference between these two URL's:
http://web.mac.com/twood20/iWeb/Site/NYC.html and
http://web.mac.com/twood20/iWeb/Videos/Our%20Day%20at%20Boomers.html
and how they relate to my .mac homepage. I created and published these two files in iWeb but on two different Macs.
When I sign in to my .mac homepage under "My Pages" I have two links.
The URL's for those links are
http://web.mac.com/twood20/iWeb/Site/Disneyland%202006.html and
http://web.mac.com/twood20/iWeb/Site/UK%20Soccer%20Camp.html
obviously neither of these URL's match the two URL's I first spoke about.
However, from within iWeb I can see and visit many of the other pages/sites that I've built. If I type the URL http://web.mac.com/twood20 then it takes me to yet another page/site that I built(which incidentally, when I type in the URL and hit enter the URL changes to http://web.mac.com/twood20/iWeb/Site/NYC.html
I guess to make a long deal short, I don't understand how iWeb and .mac work together in order for me to publish any or all of the pages/sites I want to make sure get published. If anyone has some useful information for me so that I can get all of my pages/sites published that would be great. Thanks in advance.

First take note of iWeb's Help viewer advice about naming your web pages:
Browsers convert spaces in site names to "%20." To avoid these symbols, use an underscore, hyphen, or some other character instead of a space. Also avoid non-Roman characters; many get converted to numbers when you publish.
Other characters aren't recommended for use in website names, including: forward and backward slashes (/ \), brackets ([ ]), tilde (~), exclamation point , question mark (?), "at" sign (@), number sign (#), dollar sign ($), ampersand (&), asterisk (*), colon (:), equal sign (=), comma (,), and double quotation marks ("). Using these characters may result in names with strange numbers in them.
Also take a look at this Apple document:
Publish to your .Mac account from more than one computer...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303045
In general the format of your URLs is this...
http://web.mac.com/twood20/iWeb/OneOfMySites/APageWithinThatSite.html
I'm not sure what the significance is of the pages listed in "My Pages" on .Mac, when or why that list is updated and, anyway, only you will see that list. What really matters is when someone types in your site name, does it go to your site? I suggest you clean up your page names to avoid the %20's, read that Apple document, then if you still have a specific question post back here.

ITunes Looking for the "Title" of my iWeb Podcast Page/URL???

have created a podcast page in iWeb and tried to Submit to iTunes and now it asks for the Title of the Podcast???
Have filled in as many of the page names, file names as I think is possible and still get this message.
Any help would be appreciated.
Would be great if they had a link on the iTunes submit page that would tell us what to do on iWeb.

You are making your podcast in WordPress and submitting it to Feedburner to pass on to the Store. If you want to change the title you have to do this in WordPress: however it looks as if Feedburner generates the feed filename from the title:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInconvenientTruthFileInPodcastTheInconvenientTrut hExploringTheFactsBehindTheFictions
so if you change the title you will likely change the URL and iTunes will lose contact with the feed. I don't know whether it will do this (logically it shouldn't) but you would have to find that out from their Help (if any). Otherwise you can only try it and if the feed URL does change, change the title back.
As you don't have direct access to the Feedburner feed, then if Feedburner changes the URL you will not be able to add the redirection tag necessary to change iTunes to a different feed - so it's possible you may be stuck with what you've got.

IWeb and MobileMe Gallery

I am trying to upload pictures from the MobileMe Gallery. I have albums published but when I move the MobileMe widget to the web page I am creating it reads "No albums or movies". Please help.

I've jumpstarted the MMe widget with the following 2 fixes before:
Try this:
quit iWeb
go to the System/MobileMe preference pane and log out of MMe.
login with a bogus username and password like "Ying" and "Yang". This clears the caches.
login with your correct username and password.
launch iWeb and try again.
Ahother method that worked one time was:
delete the iWeb preference file, com.apple.iWeb.plist, that resides in your Home() /Library/Preferences folder.
go to your Home()/Library/Caches/com.apple.iWeb folder and delete its contents.
launch iWeb and try again.
HOWEVER, a way to embed your MMe gallery and not worry about fixes is to go online and get the URL of your MMe gallery and plug it into the following code in an HTML snippet:
<script src="http://gallery.mac.com/g/flash/photowidget_iefix.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
writeObj("http://gallery.me.com/MobileMeName/XXXXXX", 226, 199);
</script>
Thanks to Wyodor for the code.
Where XXXXXX is the number of your MobileMe gallery
OT

IWeb and 2 Moblie Me Accounts?

I have 2 web sites published through iWeb. Each has its own .Mac / Mobile Me account. pixelportraitpro.com and gmilesband.com respectively. How do I switch between the accounts to upload changes in I Web? The 1st account ( .Mac) I created 1 year ago and published my 1st site to. The second account (mobile me) I created last month and published
the 2nd site to. The green lighted URL at the bottom of iWeb indicates the gmilesband.com account!
I need to update the pixelportraitpro.com account and can not figure out how to switch iWeb back to
that account? Also-any photo galleries I create in iPhoto are in the gmilesband account as well!
I need to switch this back to the pixelportraitpro account and assume it will be automatic as soom as I can figure out the iWeb account switch!
Plaese Advise if you know how!
Thanks
Gary

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. The easiest way to do what you want is to create a second user account on your mac for Site 2 and use for your current account for Site 1. For each Mac account log into the respective MMe account via the System/MobileMe preferences pane.
Each Mac account can now edit and publish the site for that MMe account automatically. To make changing Mac accounts easy just turn on Fast User Switching in the System/Accounts pane under Login Options.
Duplicate the domain file that's in your current User/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder and move it to the same location in Mac account 2. In Mac 1 open iweb and delete site 2. In Mac 2 open iWeb and delete site 1. Now you have the to Mac accounts set up to manage their respective sites.
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A fix to personal web domain name problem between iWeb and GoDaddy

There are numerous posts about problems with iWeb understanding both your personal name domain with and without the www.prefix. After five days, 25 calls to both Apple and GoDaddy where I was getting much conflicting advice even within each organization, and I experienced many problems such as the site not being found and iWeb asking for password authorization whenever anyone visited the site. The good news is that I was finally able to resolve the problem with these simple steps:
First, check that your Web site actually exists by going to http://web.mac.com/yourusername
If that works then you need to set up a forward in GoDaddy.
In GoDaddy's account manager, make sure that the forwarding address is set to http://web.mac.com/yourusername. This must be the same address that you just checked through your browser. (I also advise you to NOT USE the .ME designation that Apple is moving to. It's not solid yet. .MAC will work for a long time. It's web.mac.com/ that will work).
Then click on the Total DNS Control and MX Records link.
This is where my instructions that work differ from many other instructions, but heed my advice and you'll save a lot of time.
Look in the CNAMES area and make sure that the www host alias points to "@" and not to anything else such as "web.me.com" or "www.mac.com". If you don't have such an entry, then create one by clicking on the "add a new CNAME Record"button. Caution - if you don't use the "@" (at sign) here you WILL run into trouble where your custom domain name will only work WITHOUT a "www." prefix. (While this may not be a problem for your mac friends, most everyone using a PC will think they need to type in a "WWW." and that will cause a problem).
Then if you wish, you can also go back into your domain forwarding area and click on the masking tab and click to enable masking. This will make your url only show the short personal domain name rather than the very long iWeb mobile me URL appended with your personal domain name.
Confirm your entry, and then wait anywhere from 20 minutes to four hours or more for the tens of thousands of servers around the world to repopulate those instructions. I was able to see a change take place in minutes where my associate in another state didn't see the change for two hours. Don't worry, just wait.
If you do this, you should be able to then go to your Web site through either www.YourPersonalDomainName.com or YourPersonalDomainName.com
Good luck!

I was finally able to resolve the problem with these simple steps:
Many people would not be interested in using url forwarding/masking as you suggest to solve this issue, since that makes it impossible to bookmark individual pages of your site. For those who do wish to set the www CNAME to web.mac.com, I think the problem can normally be solved by also setting the @ A Record to 17.250.248.34.

IWeb and a new computer

I have a new macbookpro, and want to access my old (from previous mac laptop) IWeb website and make changes to it, but when I open IWeb on the new computer, it prompts me to start all over again. Can I get in to my old iWeb and be able to edit it?

Similar but different issue.....
The hard drive on this laptop, my MacBook Pro, crashed and was replace. Much of the personal data was lost. Leopard was also installed.
I have several .Mac accounts. And have sevral websites that have been created. The sites that were constructed using .Mac Homepage I can still access and edit. HOW DO I ACCESS AND EDIT THOSE SITES CREATED WITH iWeb?
Aside from the disappointment and inconveneince of having my hard drive crash and losing personal data, the service experience has been horrible. My first call to Apple care led me to the .Mac support. After no response in the prescribed "48 hours", I arrived at the Apple Store in Phoenix armed with my ProCare card. NOTHING! No one could help and I was directed back to either Apple Care or the .Mac suppofrt web pag....Apple ****.
This is the Applke nitemare the PC clones speak about.
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