Iweb/.mac homepage???

I'm new to mac web publishing and to .mac. I have created a web page through iweb without much problem. Can anyone tell me the difference between the homepage on .mac and my web pages I created on iweb and published to .mac? My home page still pops up with all the options to create a look but I'm confused on how to create something out of it.
Any help is greatly appreciated.... lakerider

Another way to separate sites so you can work on them independently is to use iWebSites.
I use iWebSites to manage multiple 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 Domain.sites files before starting the splitting process.
This lets me edit several sites and only republish the one I want.
Do you Twango?

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IWeb, iPhoto, .Mac Homepage, Photopages and Photocasts

I'm on the Apple dope since about 2003 or so...
Used to one-click publish photo albums from iPhoto that automatically went to my .Mac Homepage. This worked great.
Recently upgraded to a newer generation of iLife - Enter iWeb - and now have a web.mac.com page too. Cool. I even got a Photos page up there too.
The questions...
1) is updating and publishing to the .Mac Homepage from within iPhoto obsolete now?
2) if NOT, how can i continue to utilize it?
3) If i have previously built a photo page on my web.mac.com site using drag-and-drop, and i have a photocast link on my main "welcome" page, will people be subscribed to the page?
4) if it IS that simple, and i later edit the single photo page on the web.mac.com site by dragging another couple of photos to it and selecting "Publish to iWeb", will subscribed ppl get the updates?
Beavis2084

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.

.Mac Homepage vs. iWeb

Prior to upgrading to iLife 06, I uploaded photo albums to my .Mac homepage. Now that I am running iLife 06, by default I can only publish photos from iPhoto using iWeb. I noticed that publishing using iWeb creates a site address of ...web.mac.com/xxxxx. So what happens to my ...homepage.mac.com/xxxxx site? Is this site now defunct because I can't seem to republish existing photo albums to my "homepage" site. Hope this makes sense.
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My only complaint so far, aside from the poor blogging implementation, is that when making changes, it republishes all sites, instead of simply republishing the page with the change.
I've tested it with only one site, and now with two, and each change results in iWeb republishing all information, which seems wasteful to me. So, if I have more than one photo page, which I normally do, it wastes time and bandwidth republishing all the pages for all sites, regardless of whether there's any changes.
That's about the only thing I prefer about publishing photos to Homepage, the speed in posting photo sites.
iWeb seems comparable to Macromedia's Contribute product in terms of design and usage (albeit missing Contribute's greater layout flexibility and customization), and certainly its integration with iPhoto and .Mac gives it greater potential.
Various G4s and G5s Mac OS X (10.4.1)

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.

Can I clone a .mac Homepage to iWeb?

I would like to clone my old .mac Homepage (still active) to iWeb. One complication is some of the links were password protected and I neglected to unprotect them before Homepage went away.
Howard

You will eventually be able to access Homepage according to .Mac: System Status says members cannot access the HomePage application and this statement in your Me page:
"*System Status*
MobileMe members may be unable to access groups.mac.com.
MobileMe members cannot access the HomePage application. Service will be restored ASAP. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Read more."
It just may take a few days. Otherwise you could try copying the Homepage folder for your site from it's current location to the iDisk/Web/Sites folder and see if that might open it up. The URL would be different.
OT

IWeb should be a .Mac homepage client software...

iWeb using a different webpage address for .Mac users, that make some trouble to people, cause they are the two sites on .Mac by one user. If I have my homepage on "homepage.mac.com", what URL I should tell my friends? iWeb can refer to a "homepage.mac.com" page, but .mac homepage can't do that. this means that I should tell the new URL to friends if I use iWeb homepage.
I hope they are the same URL, that will make it simply.

JT, If I'm understanding you correctly, you think that .Mac and iWeb should be more integrated, inasmuch as your website address(es) are concerned.
In my view, Apple dropped the ball on this one. It should have integrated dot Mac and iWeb so that those of us with existing dot Mac addresses would have had more integration between our now TWO or more sites. We are left, essentially, with two separate entities.
What i've done on mine is post a link to my existing dot Mac site, and on my dot Mac site, I've done a separate page with the direct link to my new site and an explanation of why there are two websites for me now. It is the first page that visitors see in the dot Mac main menu.
The other part to this is that I like both websites, but would like to incorporate the features of both into one. Apple flunked on this one. Eventually, I hope to move everything over to iWeb, and I think Apple is heading in this direction, because imo Apple would have made it easier to integrate the two if it wanted two separate entities in the first place - a company known for thinking different and thinking ahead.
Having said all that, my iWeb site is getting to look really good. I find it much like Photoshop - building the site with layers, images, etc.
For now, at least, we have no alternative but to hand out two different URLs as well as an explanation of why there are two or more!
Rachel.

How merge iWeb with .mac HomePage?

I'm having difficulties on merging iWeb photos I published into my .mac homepage which I already have lot of pics in there. I want people to continue looking at my pictures.
On my .mac account when I log in on Safari, I noticed the homepage galleries are separated from the iWeb I published. How can I merge these two together??
Please help! I'm starting to "regret" that I installed iLife '06. This is not any simple as Apple said so.

Sherry:
You can edit and add to existing homepages via the .Mac site thru Safari or your web browser. You'd have to manually add photo files to the folder holding the photo files for a particular web page and then go the the .Mac homepage site, select that page and do an edit. You can also create new homepages with the older themes manually.
It is a shame you can't use the two together. the iWeb selection of theses is rather limited compared to Homepage. Good luck.

IWeb versus HomePage

I hope there is a solution !! Now that we have iWeb HomePage doesn't work the way it used to, as most of you have already found out. I hate it! I have a homepage set up with a number of photo albums to which I add new ones with some frequency. I used to be able to set up an album in iphoto and then click a button at the bottom to upload it to m .mac HomePage. Now, of course that button is gone, replaced by the iWeb button. Pages published with iWeb are totally different than those published with HomePage. I prefer the menu and album set up of HomePage.
I know that I can put my photos in an folder on my iDisk and then upload them that way and via the web wet up another page. This takes about 10 times as long to do because the photos show up in a random order and then have to be rearranged on the web which is very slow and dicey to do. Just now I was trying to this and after moving 10 or 12 pictures the page just quit, it just vanished. putting me back at square one! A TOTAL WASTE OF TIME.
There must be a better way.
Can anyone help?

Now that we have iWeb
HomePage doesn't work the way it used to,
It's not Homepage but iPhoto that doesn't work the way it used to. If you go back to iPhoto 5 you can do things as before I think.

Publishing on .Mac Homepage

I am trying to publish a new album in my iPhoto 6.0.4 to my .MAC homepage. I have done this before and all I did was hit a button in iphot and the pictues were published. I cannot find the button in the updated iPhoto. I do not want to photocast or send the album to iWeb. I just want to publish the photos on my .MAC homepage.
Can anyone tell me how to do this PLEASE.....
Thank you.
joanne
(I have plenty of storage space...)

You can do it manually with the following workflow:
1 - export the files you want to a folder on the desktop, resizing them to the size you want for the media files. For example I use 640 x 480.
2 - give the folder a short name that identifies the event of the photo.
3 - mound your iDisk and copy that folder to the Pictures folder on the iDisk. (Tip: using Transmit will reduce the upload time by up to a factor of 5 or 6. At least in my experience. No need to mount the iDisk in the Finder).
4 - to to the .Mac web site and log in.
5 - click on the Homepage button.
6 - in the Homepage window select the folder you just uploaded and click the Add button.
From there it's self explanatory.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.

Export for .MAC homepage

Hey guys,
Yes, I searched for this answer.
iMovie makes it VERY easy to export a movie to your .MAC homepage. What procedure do you guys use to export a movie from FCP to your .MAC homepage?
Dwaine

Here's what I do...
File
Export
Quicktime Conversion
Make sure it says QT Movie in the dialog box
Below that, it will say Default or Recent Settings...
Change to Broadband High
Then click OPTION button
Make sure Audio is checked
IF you are making a 16/9 movie, click on SIZE
Change to 420x270 or any 16/9 fraction.
It will be about 3 to 3.5 megs a minute depending on framerates and size.
Then, I load onto my SITES folder and you get this:
http://homepage.mac.com/captmench/BenTitlews264.mov
It's just the movie on a blank browser window. I've NEVER figured out how to actually make it work in a .Mac iMovie window... however, with iWeb... move the file to your User/Movies folder on your system drive and use iWeb to load it to the web for you... then you'll get this:
http://web.mac.com/captmench/iWeb/Site/Movies/037FD32C-59D2-4311-BCF1-8CEAE2592F 6D.html
Good luck,
CaptM

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.

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

Posting to my .Mac HomePage

I used to be able to select an album or some photos in an album and hit one button at the bottom of my iPhoto window (I think it said 'Publish') and my pix would publish to my .Mac HomePage. Can I still do that? How? I know I can Photocast, but I'd like to be able to just post them where folks could see them without having to download them.
Martin

Martin
That went out with iPhoto 5. You'll need to make a quick page in iWeb.
Regards
TD

IWeb+.mac does it have an advantage ?

I want to create a couple of sites with iWeb+.mac
One is a photo gallery and another gemstone jewelry, which is also based on a lot of images.
I have a gallery on Pbase, but the overall look is pretty plain and old style, not like zenfolio for example. And I don't want to waste my time and to mess with CSS, because with today's tools it can be done with a couple of clicks.
Will I be able to create easily an attractive photo site?
Does the combination of iWeb+.mac create traffic and good ranking on Alexa and Google ?
thanks!

snappir wrote:
One is a photo gallery (...) Will I be able to create easily an attractive photo site?
You can create a .Mac/MobileMe Web Gallery and hyperlink to it from your iWeb site:
http://www.apple.com/mobileme/features/gallery.html
A demo gallery is here:
http://gallery.mac.com/emily_parker
You can pseudo embed a .Mac Web Gallery into your site — here's a video tutorial briefly showing that about half-way through:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#iweb-design-55
You can also really embed (a page within a page) a .Mac Web Gallery into an iWeb site:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2007111620013523

SAFARI crashes when using my .mac Homepage

Safari 2.0 constantly crashes, but ONLY when I am using my .mac account and switching pages on my .mac HomePage sites, or choosing a photo from iDisk while trying to edit one of those sites. This makes editing my pages almost impossible because it usually crashes before I am finished.
I don't think that this was a problem before switching to Tiger, but it seems to be getting worse.
I have submitted multiple reports to Apple over few weeks. (Do they ever answer?)
I have looked at previous posts, but they don't seem to be this specific.

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