Iweb and .mac question

do i have to be a member of .mac to create websites on iweb?

do i have to be a member of .mac to create websites on iweb?
No, iweb sites can be put on other servers. Here are some tips:
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/iwebserver.html
The right forum for iWeb questions is here:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1193

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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.

IWeb and iTunes question.....

I'm using iWeb to publish my podcast and have submitted it to iTunes and it has been added to the directory, however, the artwork is incorrect at iTunes. How can I fix this?
I've used all the podcast elements in iWeb and have artwork for the podcast, however, iTunes is using a background image from my website as the artwork to display.
here's the website link: http://web.mac.com/ericd2/iWeb/
Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Eric... there is no fix for this yet. Many people are having the same issue. I've searched the discussion board, talked to the genius bar, apple care, itunes support, iweb support, and .mac support. I've tried rewriting my rss.xml file and loading it to idisk and syncing, I've also tried deleting the original podcasting page after copying and pasting all of the text, graphics, audio and video to a new page and resubmitting it to iTunes. I've also had itunes delete the feed and resubmit it.
None of this works. Some of us have artwork, some of us don't. Itunes is aware and is working on it.
Sorry man, wish I had better news.
Jim
20" Imac 1ghz (lmpstd), Mini, G4 Dual 1.8, G4 400, 12" Powerbook, ibook, eMac Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Getting iWeb and .Mac to play nicely...

I posted the following in the .Mac general forum, but haven't gotten any movement or advise to help with the problem. Since the end result is that I can't publish from iWeb to .Mac I thought that I would repost it here to see if anyone prowling here has thoughts. Anything you can offer would be AWESOME!
--care
From .Mac general forum:
Boy do I have a challenge for you all...
I am an expat living in China and can't seem to get my mac to play nicely with the Great Firewall. I am looking for some help/advice on the subject.
I am connected using ethernet. We have a wireless router in the apartment that my husband has no trouble using (on his evil PC). I get a full signal, the computer says the wireless network is up and running... but I am unable to get anything loaded from the internet unless the cable is connected. This is just the beginning...
The real problem is with applications accessing the internet. My computer can't connect to .Mac unless I do it through the internet. If I open my system preferences I get an error message that reads, in part, "There's a problem connecting to the required iDisk server. Please try again later." Account name and password have been verified.
I think this is part of a bigger problem. Entourage can't download my email, but I can access my email if I go through the internet. None of my widgets that connect to the internet (CNN, eVites, weather) will connect to the internet. iWeb is unable to publish to my .Mac account because the computer can't sign on. I get a very pleasant error message there, too. I think something is blocking programs other than FireFox from getting an internet connection.
Does anyone out there have experience with this? On the count of three everyone put on your thinking cap! One...
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7) iWeb 1.1.1

If the router works for your other computer (your partner's laptop) and is able to access the internet from there, then I'm pretty sure your router is fine as well as your internet connection.
The problems that you are describing certainly sound like there is something wrong with the network setup of your mac.
You should open up the System Preferences>Network pane and see if you are getting valid IPs either via wireless or via ethernet cable. You should have DHCP or "Obtain IP address automatically" selected. What is your current IP that is showing in the window?

Several Iweb and godaddy questions.

Hello Folks:
Just to give you an idea of my proficiency with web design, I'm the equivalent of a student pilot who just soloed. Just enough knowledge to be dangerous and a threat to mankind. Here are my questions:
1. How do I use text editor or word to modify my HTML? I can view the HTML of my site, copy and paste, but can't get it back into iweb as other than alphabet soup. I specifically want to change the email address. I wrote the site having my personal email address in my address book and can't change it to the business email address by just re-publishing with the change to my address book.
2. I published to Godaddy and of course cant use the counter. I tried to follow the instructions after starting an account at Statcounter.com but don't know how to insert it then change it back to a web site. Same basic problem as the email.
2.1 Why would Mac consider something as basic as a counter to be proprietary?
3. Can't get the slideshow to work on Godaddy. It works fine on my computer. On Godaddy, the slide show bar at the very bottom does not publish. I get an enlarged photo with a border on only three sides, nothing at the bottom. I can also enlarge each photo one at a time with the same results.
4. Is the Iweb loaded on my Mac a watered down version? Seems like a lot of features may be lacking, especially if you want to do a business website like mine. I love my Macs and don't want to have to switch to some windows program, but need more than I see on Iweb.
My website is www.airlandandseaparts.com. I'm going to switch into windows hard drive now and see if the slideshow works.
Thank you very much.
Regards,
Kevin
Intel IMAC and Ibook Mac OS X (10.4.9)

I wrote the site having my personal
email address in my address book and can't change it
to the business email address by just re-publishing
with the change to my address book.
You should be able to though... this is strange... Especially if you are publishing to a folder, then you should be able to re-upload the newly published files with the proper email address.
2.1 Why would Mac consider something as basic as a
counter to be proprietary?
The resources for the counter are hosted by .Mac. They can't possibly account for every variable as far as available resources on other hosts. (php, etc - stuff I don't understand nor want/care to but thats what it is about probably)
3. Can't get the slideshow to work on Godaddy. It
works fine on my computer. On Godaddy, the slide
show bar at the very bottom does not publish. I get
an enlarged photo with a border on only three sides,
nothing at the bottom.
Try re-uploading your slideshow_assets folder.
I can also enlarge each photo
one at a time with the same results.
This is how the non-.Mac slideshow works.
You might like this one better:
http://www.codemanic.com/blog-archives/000084.html

IWeb, rapidweaver & .mac question

Given that I just cannot update my website nor publish to a folder (been trying since 9th Jan & just get the same unknown error message and nothing in these forums has addressed the problem) I'm considering re-doing my site with rapidweaver (I prefer iWeb, but if just doesn't work?).
Does anyone know if I publish to my .Mac account the new site will have the same URL? I really just use the site to publish my podcasts and I'm trying to avoid the hassle of having to set up a new feed etc. Also I have my own URL which is pointed to my .Mac account. Any ideas anyone? Or any suggestions on how I can fix iWeb?

As far as I know RW still publishes the pages in the Sites (HomePage) folder. You can enter a pathname to the correct location.
To publish the page to the iWeb folder, or any other location, you have to export the site.
A nice feature of RW is that you can export changes only, instead of the whole Site.

IWeb and .Mac (MobileMe) Galleries

Went to add some iWeb pages with links to a few of my .Mac (or now MobileMe) Galleries. However, when I go to the "Insert" menu and select .Mac Web Gallery I'm informed that "No albums or movies are available." Now I know for certain I have 5 Web Galleries (you can even see them at gallery.me.com/noraa). Is iWeb not seeing these galleries because of the transition to MobileMe. Is anyone else having a similar problem. Thanks for all you're help!
P.S. I am properly logged into MobileMe in the System Preferences and can access my iDisk via the Finder, sync items, access my email, etc.

Sorry - did not help. The only effect was, that my website was lost and a new blank website came up.
But it is more clear that it seems to be a bug in iWeb:
Only web-albums appear in iWeb that are created and fed by iPhoto.
But mine are fed by Aperture!
There were two albums left which were connected to iPhoto. I went to mobileMe web interface and got "info" for the two albums which were still connected to iPhoto and changed this to Aperture.
The result is: no album is left to show up in iWeb as a "MobileMe web gallery" to be inserted as a widget.

Iweb and mac newbie

This is my first mac. After working on it for a few weeks, don't know why anyone would have a pc. Bought and installed ilife, went to create a webpage in iweb, but all the buttons are greyed out and I don't have a template selection tool anywhere.
Some help please?

Hi,
Try following this write up:
http://homepage.mac.com/hoovmoss/iWebIsGrey.html
Seems to be a common problem. And easy to fix
Good luck.

IWeb and .Mac images are dark when viewed with PCs--how to fix?

I do my Photo editing in iPhoto on an iMac or an iBook, and the images look fine. Once posted to a .Mac or iWeb page, they still look fine on my Mac monitors, but when viewed on PCs and PC laptops, they are MUCH darker... The sites look terrible. The brightness on the nonMac monitors is turned up already.
Is there something special I should do to get images to appear correctly on nonMac machines?

Thanks for the responses. This has been a problem for a couple of years and this is real advice! I even had this problem with a book published through Apple. Anyway...
I didn't follow Barbara advice (OK, I'm slow, but I couldn't quite figure out where the gamma setting was), but I did use Falcon01's suggestion to use the sRGB IEC61966-2.1 profile.
I then reviewed and re-edited the relevant pictures. In this case, they are pictures of my girlfriend's condo she is trying to rent (mostly slightly off-white walls (aren't they all?) and dark, rich parquet flooring.) First, the pictures were darker, and I could adjust the exposure to much brighter, which helped a great deal. It did, however, introduce lots of color artifacts (pinkish blotchy walls). I drastically reduced the saturation which (good) made the walls look fairly normal, but (bad) made the rich wood flooring look drab and grayish. For this purpose, this will be satifactory--the pictures now at least are bright enough to not look dark and dank, and people can see what the rooms look like.
When I try this on important pictures of people and such, this approach makes me nervous. Most pictures will look awful if I boost expsoure and drain the color out. How do others handle this? Thanks in advance. BTW, here is the revised web site if interested.
http://web.mac.com/curtishaymore/iWeb/B7EC3471-1B51-467B-8C79-01CD335FC856/Libra ry%203.html

IWeb and .mac username. Can you change it?

I picked a username for our home .mac account, and did not know that when we published our iWebsite, that would be the web address for the site. I created the site for our non-profit, and want the address to be named after it. Can the address be changed? http://web.mac.com/abcdefghijk, etc./

Or you could buy a domain name xyz.org for $10 or so a year (probably much cheaper than another .mac membership) and redirect your organizations site to the .mac site you publish
http://web.mac.com/yourusername/iWeb/Sitename

New to iweb (and mac) with issues publishing basic site

Hi All,
I have used one of the templates in iweb. I have changed some of the layouts, fonts (made sure they were web fonts) etc and reasonably happy with how the site looks in iweb.
I have not uploaded the site to the web, I have only saved it to a local directory to view it. I am having issues with the formating specifically the shadows on the boxes
I have just posted the welcome page below (original, mozilla & Safari) and hope someone can let me know what I am doing wrong.
Thanks
iweb
Image: !http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/Christobella/Picture2.png!
Mozilla - not too bad
Image: !http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/Christobella/mozilla.jpg!
safari - no idea what is going on here!!
Image: !http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/Christobella/Picture3.png!

Christobel ~ Welcome to the discussions. This is just a tip: Posting large images directly in these forums can make the thread difficult to read — in this case, the thread is wider. However, a clickable thumbnail can be posted without actually generating another small thumbnail image — instead the original is scaled:
< Click to view full size
The above was posted using this HTML:
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Safari doesn't read pages generated by iWeb on .Mac, but Firefox does

I had a really bad experience with Safari 2.0.4, and I still don't know why that program is becoming such a problem. I am using Quicktime 7.1.6
I have been making podcasts using GarageBand, iWeb, and .Mac since February 2006, and things have been working okay. But today, when I checked my page on Safari after I published it using iWeb 1.1.2 to publish on .Mac, the podcast pages didn't work. Checking pages that used to work, they don't work any longer with Safari. At first, I thought it might be a problem with my storage allocation on .Mac, but that is not the case (I have using less than half my allotment). I thought the podcast file might be broken, but it works fine in iTunes. I tried it on my laptop, but Safari didn't work either.
All my podcast pages that previously worked, now show a question mark in the Quicktime box. Needless to say, I was concerned, so I tried much older files on .Mac that have already worked before, but no dice.
One such page is:
http://web.mac.com/eschaal/iWeb/Docketer%20Project/Podcast/C7F36E57-1AB2-4D12-A8 87-1F199E86AE2D.html
Then I tried Firefox, and it works fine.
What gives? Why is Firefox more compatible with iWeb and .Mac, than Apple's own Safari? Why is Safari suddenly not working on two different machines, while Firefox works perfectly?
PowerPC G4 Mac OS X (10.4.10)

I found some further information, re my problem.
Factoid one, I went to the Apple Store in Nagoya and they had exactly the same problem on their machines that I had had, so it is NOT anything to with my machine, my upgrades, etc.
Factoid two, I ran the iWeb-generated coding through http://validator.w3.org/ and it found "page is not Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional!"
Factoid three, Firefox runs the page just fine.
Based upon this, I am posting a comment in the blog for my podcast identifying the problem and recommending that people wanting to see the page in Firefox. In the meantime, I will migrate that podcast off of .Mac, remove iWeb from my machine, and migrate all my web browsing to Firefox. I had contemplated dumping Safari before, because it has turned flaky (failing to quit sometimes and sometimes hanging up), but this was the final straw.
PowerPC G4 Mac OS X (10.4.10)

How can I find and edit the rss.xml feed made my iWed and .Mac?

I need to edit my rss.xml made by iWeb and .Mac so I can redirect iTunes to a my new rss from feedburner. Please advise.
Thank you.

What's your URL?

IWeb or .Mac Homepage

I'm new to website publishing, and am wondering what the pros/cons are to iWeb and .mac homepage? How are they different? Which one is better and why?

From the Apple .Mac website.... quite a while ago:
First: reassurance. The pages you've created and are publishing with HomePage are still available at homepage.mac.com/yourmembername and you can continue to use HomePage to create and publish new pages. But what iWeb makes possible is so good; multiple websites and multiple kinds of web publishing, all made extremely easy; you'll most likely want to take advantage of it.
Not a problem. You can use iWeb as your new .Mac web publishing center and keep your existing HomePage content alive in two different ways. The simplest (and we do mean simple) is to navigate to your HomePage pages in Safari and drag the urls into pages you're creating within iWeb. The link will appear with the name you've given the page in HomePage. When you publish, any links you've dragged in will take visitors to those pages.
The other way is also simple. Just republish the pages with iWeb. The same photo album you used the iPhoto HomePage button to publish can either be republished directly out of iPhoto again or dragged straight from iWeb's integrated iLife media browser. The photos will appear instantly. Just click Publish when you're done and announce the event to your audience.
Added benefit: The new slideshow that accompanies iWeb-published photo pages is an extra pleasure to view and use.

IWeb versus .Mac

I am looking into purchasing .mac and iLife. On perusing, it seems iLife has iWeb and .Mac is all about interacting with the web. Why purchase both? What are the distinct differences? Anyone?
Thanks. Novice to the web using realm,
KO

iWeb is an application for constructing websites on your computer.
.Mac is the Apple server where you can publish your site to view it in a web browser.
You do not have to have a .Mac account to publish your site. You can use the services of a web hosting company - most of which will give you a better deal and better performance than .Mac.

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