IWeb family pack help

I have the iweb family plan with a domain set up already..how do I create a new site/name for another domain? Does the family plan allow a site for each member?? Help Please

Yes - that is the whole point of a Family Pack, that you get your main MobileMe account and then 4 sub accounts where you can enter a personal domain name into each - so in effect 5 domain names if you want to use them all.
You need to set up your sub accounts from your main MobileMe account. So in your main MMe account, there should be somewhere that says 'create sub account'. Click on this to create your new sub account that will have a separate username and password.
Then log out of your main MMe account under System Preferences and then log into the sub account with the new username and password. Then go to the personal domain name settings and add the new domain name as you would do in the normal way.
You can also create new users on your computer to enable quick switching between accounts if you want to.
This question would more appropriately have been placed on the MobileMe Forum. It does not really have anyting to do with iWeb and is not a question directly related to iWeb.
Also note, that it is called the MobileMe Family Pack and not iWeb - MobileMe refers to hosting and has nothing to do with iWeb - the two are not connected.

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How do I get iweb to upload to different family pack accounts?

Hi. sorry if this has been covered before, but I can't find this particular problem anywhere. Also sorry this is going to take a while to explain. We feel we wasted an extra 50 bucks on our family pack for mac.com last year to have accounts we never could find out how to upload from our separate iWeb domain files. We needed 4 different "sub accounts" but we use one mac laptop using one desktop. Calling apple customer service was of no help. We have figured out the way to get iWeb to open different domain2 files was to copy and into each person's file (one for the gardener for their garden stuff, one for the budding chef and his cooking stuff, etc). But no matter what domain file is opened and worked on iWeb always uploads it to our main (original) user name thus erasing the site previously uploaded to it. We can't seem to find out how to change the settings in iWeb so when it uploads particular iWeb projects to Mac.com (or now me.com?) it goes to the sub accounts and not overwriting the main account. Our main account is for the entire household's news/photos etc and we don't link to the others from there. We thought by setting up the family pack we could easily get iweb to send up to the other sub accounts. Not so. We ended up last year just doing all our websites on the same iWeb domain file using "new website" function and adding a complete new website to the bottom of the list on our iWeb pages. All of them would be combined into one which uploaded everything to the main account. Not what we wanted but that was the only way that nothing would get erased by anyone else's updates but also not very private as those near the bottom of the list would have a mac.com address as long as my arm. Sorry so long winded here. But if we can't have two iweb domain files on a desk top upload to two separate mac.com accounts or sub accounts, then why pay the extra for them? Is a family pack only good for families with a computer in every room? Our family pack accounts expires in 10 days so would like to know if we need to waste another 50 bucks. And no, setting up separate desktops for for the sake of individual iWeb projects is not an option as all the files are kept together. We tried that once and got so much duplication in photos and stuff, our hard drive was full in no time.

so you have 45 different users on your one computer? ie: 45 different desktop users or am I still not understanding. To me a "user" you are referring to is what I would go up to the upper right of my toolbar and use the drop down menu and select another name (or in this case another alias of myself) but those additional accounts (users) would all have to be tied into my files on the main account to access them from all users, correct? All my files are on my one main user (myself) and not all of them are in iPhoto or iTunes, for instance any swf files. If I have other iWeb domain files (which I know how to create, duplicate and know about the last one used in iweb etc) then I have to create a separate user name (myself again) in my computer for as many iweb/me.com accounts or sub accounts that I have? But my problem with that is if I copy those domain files and move them into another account/user (which I tried) the link (the stuff at the bottom of the iWeb work window) still says my original Mac.com (me.com) address and will not let me change even when the new "user" has not even logged into Mac.com ever or the second computer is linked to a completely different mac.com account. I would have to start all over from scratch. I am sorry that I am not getting this. I know you are trying hard to explain it to me but it is just a bit too complicated to do a simple task of: I want to create a new iWeb/domain2 file on my own desktop with my own user name and have it go to "here" and not "here" within the me.com environment. I have actually copied and moved over 20 domain and domain2 files between our two macs to work on them, but each time the same connection indicated at the bottom is always the same and they will all upload to the master account at Mac I am referring to thus deleting anything we uploaded before no matter which computer they are located on. Once that domain file is created it is locked into that Mobileme account no matter what. So it has been easier to simply save to folders and purchase hosting from someone else than try to figure out what I am doing wrong with mac and me. (me, not myself)

Family Pack...posting iWeb from multiple computers?

So I apologize if this is a silly question...but need to verify my hunch. If I purchase a .mac family pack, can we post multiple iWeb sites from each of our four computers to that .mac account? So the sites would be, for example, web.mac.com/smithfamily/amy, and web.mac.com/smithfamily/scott...and such? I guess the real question, is can this happen from multiple computers accessing the same .mac account without them overwriting each other's sites? Thanks.

Hi Amy,
I think this probably remains to be seen.
If you are using iWeb1.1.2, I would say yes, you can definitely do this, as you have described.
If you are using iWeb2.0, I would say maybe not. 2.0 is publishing to a different directory on the iDisk than 1.1.2 did, and each publish to this directory, at least, from a separate/different Domain.sites2 file, erases the previously published site to the iDisk.
It is a good question whether or not this would happen with individual machines, publishing to the same .Mac account, and this would actually be very helpful information about what it is that is causing this problem, should you be successful.
I have two machines myself, and I publish to the same .Mac account from each; however, only one of them is using iWeb2.0.
I say give it a try, using the 60 day trial version of .Mac. If it doesn't work then you haven't lost anything. (Not sure if you can try the family pack in a trial version)
-Mark

IWeb, Dot Mac, family packs... and Domain names???

I'm a volunteer involved with recreational trails and historical preservation organizations in a rural area. I've been talking with the leadership of these (not-well-funded) organizations for some time about the benefits of establishing web sites for each organization. (Publicizing accomplishments, generating awareness of issues, soliciting support, improving communication, etc.)
Prior to the recent MacWorld SF Expo, I was looking (very warily) at some of the pay-services out there where you can pay so much a month (or a year) for a web-hosting service which would supposedly offer a domain name of choice, server space, and other services. Of course, with this I would have to learn how to use a web design app like GoLive CS or DreamWeaver MX. I'm not opposed to that. Web-based tutorial services like Lynda.com make it more possible than ever before. Still, I was wary about getting my "bang for the buck"; the combination of my time and the hard-won funding of these organizations resulted in wavering enthusiasm.
Along comes Apple's iLife 2006 and the offering of a new Dot Mac Family Pack. Looking over the possibilities, there's something to be said for combining iLife '06 with a Dot Mac Family Pack. If Steve Jobs' hype is to be believed, I could put up nice little web-sites for a decent price and have all kinds of technological possibilities for the future. (If anyone wants to post a podcast, it can be done. Posting pictures of volunteer work and developing issues can be a major breakthrough for awareness and support.)
I'm still concerned about some lingering issues, though. Some of these other web-hosting services offer the means of securing and using your own domain name (i.e., your-organization.org) for a web-site URL and even several e-mail addresses using that same domain name. Still, if I split a Dot Mac Family Pack five ways, that's $36 per site. That's quite a savings over $100+ per year per site that these hosting services were asking. How tough is it to get a domain name, and how much does it cost?

Walt,
Getting a domain name is easy enough, as long as you can come up with one that isn't already taken. You can secure a domain name on sites like GoDaddy.com for less than $10 a year, and it gets cheaper as you secure it for more years at a time. GoDaddy also offers free domain forwarding, meaning: you can have your www.brandnewdomainname.com point to your .Mac url (which will read something complex like http://web.mac.com/username/iWeb/somethingorother). If you don't want the complex .Mac url to show in the browser's address field when people visit your page, GoDaddy will mask it for you for free too. Then, it will just say www.brandnewdomainname.com on every page on that site. If you want each page on each of your sites to have its own easy url, say www.brandnewdomainname.com/about or www.brandnewdomainname.com/contact, you'll have to host with GoDaddy or some other site and pay the price.
If you decide to go with the iLife 06/.Mac combo, the family pack may not be the best thing for you. Have a look at this .Mac page:
http://www.mac.com/1/currencytable.html
For $20 more, you can get twice the server space (4GB), and I think that also includes a lot more bandwidth per month than the family pack, but I am not sure about that. For $30 less, you have the same amount of space as the family pack. What you don't have is the 4 additional e-mail addresses. You can purchase those separately for $10 a year, or, you can use up to 5 free e-mail aliases per account. The drawback to aliases is that messages sent to them will all end up in the main account's inbox, which may or may not work for you --perhaps only if all the e-mails are intended for the webmaster and that is you for all these sites. Of course, you could always list individual non-.Mac e-mail addresses on a contact page, and probably turn them into hyperlinks so that if people click on them, their e-mail app will open a new e-mail addressed to that person. May not be the most elegant way to do it, but if you're trying to save money, maybe it's good enough.
With a regular (non-family pack) .Mac account, you also are not forced to split your server space five ways evenly -- you can host as many sites on one .Mac account as your server space will allow. The main headache for you will be the urls to each individual page of all these sites. If you are picky about them and what exactly they look like, .Mac may not be your thing. Not yet at least. It has the ease of use, but you pay for that in other ways. There's always a trade-off...
Hope that helps a little.

.Mac Family Pack and iWeb

I want to upgrade my .Mac account to a Family Pack, but I'm a little unsure how the sub-accounts work in terms of publishing Homepages or iWeb sites.
1. Can each sub-account publish his/her own Homepage or iWeb site?
2. Does each sub-account have a distinct username associated with their Homepage or iWeb (e.g. homepage.mac.com/adminuser/subuser1)
3. Are there any other concerns regarding the interaction of .Mac sub-accounts and publishing Homepage or iWeb sites?
Thanks for any help!

Can the administrative peek into the subaccounts
folders?
Only if you have their password. They can't look at yours either.
What would the Homepage/iWeb URL be for the admin,
and for a subaccount?
http://homepage.mac.com/username/
http://web.mac.com/username/iWeb/
-- substitute username for each subaccount user's name
Each subaccount truly is a separate account, albeit with less iDisk space and subaccounts cannot create e-mail only accounts.
If the subaccounts operate as their own .Mac account,
then is cost-savings the only benefit to the Family
Pack? Aren't there additional syncing benefits? Are
there any limits to the subaccount?
If you have one .Mac account and then add an e-mail account for each family member, all they get is e-mail. They do not get an iDisk or web publishing capabilities. They also cannot do any syncing.
If you buy a Family Pack,
1. Each subaccount has 250MB iDisk space
2. Each subaccount can use Backup for backup to iDisk
3. You can share your Address Book with those family members so each has an identical copy (you can allow or disallow editing). They can also share their address books as well.
4. Each subaccount can publish their own calendar, which can be subscribed to by other members.
5. Each subaccount can publish their own website, share files using their Public folder, publish their own photos.
I'm sure I left something out. Hope this helps. Any more questions, ask away.
Jim R.

Family Pack, Multi-site help

I have the .me family pack to help make more then one website. My problem is this, I go to "mobileme account settings" and sign out of my main name and into one of my sub accounts Then I go to Iweb and when I open Iweb and my previous web site is still there, so I cant create a new one. If I go in Iweb and click new site it just combines both .com's and nothing works. I have read a lot of people do this but I have to be missing a step.
Can someone who does this help me out? I am really lost. I am trying to keep the websites on my Laptop so I can work on them as I travel.
Thanks

Set up a new user account on your Mac and launch iWeb in it to create the new site.

IWeb, .Mac family pack and 2 computers

Currently I have a single .Mac account and am using iWeb. My hubby wants his own iWeb site on his own machine so should I upgrade to the family pack on .Mac or get him his own .Mac account? If we go with the family pack does everything need to be done on 1 machine?
Thanks!

Apple wrote:
The Family Pack includes a master account, with everything in the Basic Membership, including 10GB of online storage and 100GB of monthly data transfer, plus four sub-accounts for a total of five .Mac accounts. Each sub-account gets its own email address, iDisk folder, 2.5GB of email and file storage, and 25GB of monthly data transfer. And there’s a shared iDisk folder just for the family. The master account administers the sub-accounts, and the membership can be renewed only through the master account.
Differences between getting 2 .Mac or Family Pack:
1. Price: 10 $ a year (Family is cheaper)
2. If one day another family member wants to have its own website you're better off in having the Family Pack
What's the same in getting one or the other?
1. No matter which one you choose you could have the sites on separate computers and publish from separate computers as everyone would have it's own access data
2. As I understand it: Family Pack Total storage 10 GB (+4*2,5GB) = 20GB and 2 .Mac accounts storage 20 GB
Regards,
Cédric
As mentioned by Chuck you can use the same account. As long as your sites are named differently. The only problem is that when you enter web.mac.com/username/ you will get to the last published site (yours or your sons) unless you replace the index.html file every time you publish. You could also both have a Site named with the same name (let's say Index) at first place in your iWebs followed by the personal sites. The Index site will be identical in both iWeb and contain just an index so people can choose which site to look at yours or yours sons (however sons mostly want only their own stuff... I think... And don't want friends looking at the father's site or so...). That way there's no problem putting in web.mac.com/username/ people would always see the same site no matter who published last

Using iWeb with MobileMe family pack

I just upgraded to the family pack for mobile me. I had been using it for my homepage, but now I'd like to make a homepage for my son, and my wife wants to make a homepage as well.
How is this handled in iWeb? I don't see a way to tell it where to publish which site when I add a new site.
What is the easiest way to handle multiple mobile me websites on one mac?
Thanks.

Not having used the sharing option since there's only one user on my Mac, I don't know the ins and outs of what you want to do. Terence Develin might. If you want to share the library with all users and have them be able to access the library, import new file and perform edits then the best solution is to put the library on an external HD whose ownership has been set to off. This Apple document explains the process: iPhoto: Sharing libraries among multiple users.
The drive can also be used to backup other files as well.
OT

New family pack .mac - how to republish iweb parts to new .mac accounts

Ok, that subject isn't very clear so I'll try here: Tonight I upgraded my .mac to a Family Pack. I have split my previous iWeb 'domain.sites2' into individual sites that I have renamed. One needs to go to my hubby's computer under his .mac account and I want to put some of the others under the other newly created .mac accounts on my own computer. How to I tell each of the new 'xxx.site2' to be published under the correct .mac?
Thanks!

belbe2 wrote:
do you know how the public folders work? Am I missing something in setup?
You have to click on your Harddisk (Macintosh HD) then go to "Users" and there you will find the different users accounts and you are able to view the content of the public folders (not going to HD and then Home where you put stuff in).
But public folders permissions are read-only. To move things from one user account to the other you should use "Shared Folder" instead of the "Public Folder". Go to your HD, "Users", and drop the stuff into Shared. Shared has Read & Write permissions.
Regards,
Cédric

HELP! How can I tell if my copy of iWork is Family Pack?

I bought this copy in 2007 and am selling it now, don't use anything in it, but I don't know whether this is the Family Pack or the individual user version.
I have the same problem with the copy of Leopard I bought, which I -know- is the Family Pack (5 installs) but which says nothing to that effect in the packaging!

Apple doesn't "track" installs but depends on the moral integrity of their consumers to abide by the software license. For most Apple Software the licenses state the software can only "exist on one computer" at a time. The licenses state that family pack software can exist on up to five computers in the same household. So, legally, you can uninstall the software from one Mac & install it on another & be within the terms of the license.

IPod Touch upgrade to use iMessage and it syncs with Dad's iPhone info!!! Using family pack Mobile Me. HELP???

I have three children that use iPod Touches. They are all iOS5 capable. I upgraded the first one this morning and it synced with my iPhone profile on iCloud. It asked for the iTunes account information which is what I believe caused this. We use Mobile Me Family Pack and each of the children have a unique @me.com account. How do I fix this problem so that each iPod has it's own unique login so that iMessage will work? I don't really want to open them up to any further exposure on the Web though... . As it stands I am able "micromanage" their contact list via Mobile Me. Is there any way to make the iPods behave correctly and still maintain parental control as well as allow them to keep their unique profiles and contact lists???
...and for some reason, after upgrading my son's iPod Touch... his apps all disappeared from the device??? Strange, as this worked perfectly when I upgraded my iPhone yesterday.
PS. All my upgrades are current. iOS5 on iPhone 4, iTunes 10.5 on MBP.

I spent about 2 hours on the phone with Apple Support... had to restore both devices! Arrrgggghhh!!! Thankfully the iPhone had a Backup from yesterday. The iPod wasn't too tough to get back up and running either... although we had to completely reload it as if it were new. Then we found out that Apple won't let the device login with my son's @me.com email because he's too young (10). Quick work-around for now until Apple fixes this was to lie about his age in the setup. I don't like the work around, but it worked.

How do you Set up a Family Pack sub-account

how do you Set up a Family Pack sub-account i have purchased a Family Pack account and enter the activation key and i can not find where to set up the sub-account.
please help
Denis

Thanks Shepart
when i activated the account i ticked the upgrade button, should i have ticked the new account button?
anyway, when i do what you say (below) there is not a manage "Accounts button" so i went to reactive it again ( for a new account) and is says that the activation key is all ready in use.
Denis, go to www.mac.com and sign into your account. Click on the word "Account" at the top of the left hand column. You will need to sign in again for security purposes. Once your account settings show up, click on the "Manage Accounts" button and you can take care of everything.
i think i hit a brick wall !!
Cheers
Denis

How can I tell if an install DVD is a family pack or a single-user?

I'm now running Tiger, and want to install Leopard. I can't go to Snow Leopard because my processor is powerPC -- not Intel.
I have purchased a new Leopard install DVD from a seller on Ebay. I paid for a family pack. It does not say "family pack" anywhere on the package, which is sealed in clear plastic. I asked the seller why it didn't show "family pack" anywhere visible on the package. He "guaranteed" that it is a family pack, not a single user license.
I've looked at a family pack DVD for Tiger and for Snow Leopard. Both show "family pack" on the exterior of the package, but I don't see anything on the face of the DVD.
Is there anyway that I can confirm whether the seller is being truthful? If I open the package, and it doesn't show anything on the face of the DVD . . . . how can I tell if it really is a family pack?
Thanks for your help.

My Leopard came pre-installed, so I don't have a retail package to examine. However, doing a google image search for family packs, I couldn't find any obvious difference on the outside or inside between the two. Here, for example, is someone who says he bought a family pack and photos of the inside of the box including the DVD:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertnelson/2211524221/
Notice, no "family pack" to be seen anywhere.
The only difference, as I understand it, between the family pack and the single-user pack is the number of license you pay for. If you paid (a third-party) for a family pack license, then I feel you can in good conscience install the OS on up to five computers in your house or that otherwise meet the terms of use for a family pack. The OS will not seek out duplicate serial numbers on your network or anything like that (even single-user installs rely on the honor system) so you will be fine.

How I can see what accounts I created with my family pack in my old mobileme account?

Any ideas how I can see what accounts I created with my family pack in my old mobileme account?
i updated it when we need to migrate and all emails are active and being used.
i need to update an email address. we use this for my personal company and need to keep the email in
the same format so it matches the others in the company. i dont see it anywhere in my account now.
i am using a .mac format. thanks.

In order to see which devices are authorized on your account:
Open iTunes
Click Store
Click Account
Click View Account
Enter your password
Look in the second section iTunes in the Cloud
To the far right you'll see Manage Devices
Once it's clicked you will see all of the devices currently authorized in iTunes/on your account
I was going to say, "Hope this helps," but based on the above, I'm pretty sure it did!
Thanks guys...

I bought an iwork family pack in Feb 2012 online and can not find a link to download it so that I can put my serial number to install it. Anyone can provide one? I tried at the apple site but couldnt find anything that was not the individual applications

I bought a new powermac but it seems the family iwork app has dissapeared from the app store

Peggy,
Thanks for your reply. My bad. I meant Macbook Pro (Not powermac). I still have the receipt and the email from the apple store. The total price was $99 as you can see below on the screenshot of the email. I changed the order number just in case. Anyway. I just want a link that would allow me to insert my activation key so that I can use Iwork on my new macbook pro. Thanks in advance again for your help
Order Acknowledgment
Order Number: xxxxxxxx
Ordered on February 04, 2012
Items to be Shipped
iWork Family Pack - Serial Number Key
$99.00
1
$99.00
Ships: Now

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