Iweb publishing?? Two sites causing headaches!!!

ok someone may have figured this out I am new to Apple but love it!!!! The issue and question I have is I have two going to have 4 sites in Iweb which they say is fine!! Now the issue is!! how can you publish just one of the sites!!! I do not want to sit and wait for all the sites to publish to get to the last one and have to deal with deleteing the others to get to the new one its very frustrating and if there is no way around this I will be so disappointed!!!!!
George

Yes I know it only updates those pages changed if your updating to .MAC but I have my own hosting service and have no need for the .MAC stuff. I also saw what you where talking about as far as moving the sites around... but when you go to publish the new site or a new page it publishes all the sites in IWeb. Example im building 4 sites...I want each site in a differnt folder because each person has differnt hosters...so they are all in IWeb I create a new site I want to publish it to a folder called "williamssite" well its publishes ever single site in Iweb to that folder. I have searched and searched and this seems to be just how Iweb works....wich to me kinda *****. LOL I love my Mac but if your going to let people create more than one site then let them publish only the ones they want to where they want. I also so where someone said well jsut create a new user profile for the sites...I dont want to have to log into four differnt profiles just to work on a webpage...
I know its nothing we can change but hopefully Apple views these and will see the error of these ways

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I want to publish a new site, but every time I do it, the old is the same folder than the new one.
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Regards.
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I use iWebSites to manage multiple sites.. It lets me create multiple sites and multiple domain files.
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martinic283:
Yes, you can publish to multiple dotMac accounts. You just need to set your account up on your Mac before publishing in the .Mac Preference pane and log on.
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I've also had that problem - real headache
Here's a fix (in princple) :
Within iWeb delete the photos you don't want from the page.
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user/library/application support/iWeb/Domain
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IWeb Publishing

Until recently I had not visited the iWeb forum for a long time. I see that so many of you are having publishing problems. Most of these seem to be about publishing to .Mac.
I do have a .Mac account but I use it for Backup, Address Book etc and to try out a website on the internet before I upload it to a server.
Apart from publishing problems, using .Mac does not allow you to optimize your pages for faster download. Also, if you have more than one site, things get even worse.
Here are some suggestions..
[1] I use iWebSites so that I can load my sites one at a time into iWeb.
[2] Then I publish to a folder and run this through Web Site Maestro which optimizes and uploads to the server. When I update or edit one or more pages I can turn on "Smart Handling" which saves a lot of time.
[3] I use Host Excellence which gives you a deal where you get free domain registration, up to six websites and 300G of space for about $7 per month which is cheaper than a .Mac subscription. Unlike .Mac, any problems are dealt with by their tech support in less than 24 hours.
iWebsites - http://mistergregg.com/cocoadrillosoftware/iWebSites/
Web Site Maestro - http://www.tonbrand.nl/
Host Excellence - http://www.hostexcellence.com/index.php/v2/pages.packages
I'm not advertising these products - just letting you know what works for me!
What works for you?

Reading through the forum I see people losing their sites because they delete them after publishing. This seems a tempting way to go because of the way iWeb works. If you have multiple sites it has to load them all every time you open the application.
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The way that iWeb stores your sites causes a lot of problems and confusion.
They are in a file "domain.sites". The path is User/Home Folder/Library/Application Support / iWeb.
Once you publish your sites to .Mac they are available as files on your iDisk. If you select "publish to a folder" to upload to a server they are available where ever you selected to store them on your computer.
Now here's the thing. You CANNOT get these files back into iWeb - no way!
Go into the iWeb folder and copy your ".sites" folder or folders. Create a new folder to put them in and store these files in another location on your Mac. Update these backups regularly every time you make major changes and have tested them out in your browser. If you don't have an external drive to make backups, back them up to CD or DVD.
Backing up ALL your computer files to an external drive on a regular basis is imperative. If you don't believe me, wait for the day when your Mac crashes and the hard drive burns out. It will someday - its happened to me twice! I now have three hard drives with bootable backups - one of which is kept off site.
If you like to gamble against the odds, at least back up your .sites file to CD and protect all your creative efforts.

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When I click on publish on folder, iWeb publish both sites on folder not only one. How can I do?
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Aldo

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Using iWeb to publish to two sites separately

Here's my situation: I purchased a Family Pack .mac so I get 5 sites. I will use one for my own use, my wife will use one, and my son will use one.
We would like to use one of the two remaining accounts primarily to put up a website for a friend of ours who is working as a missionary in Africa.
So on my wife's computer, we want to use iWeb to build two sites, publish one in one .mac account and publish the other in another .mac account.
So far iWeb keeps publishing them in the same account.
Any ideas?

The easiest thing for you to do would be to create a separate account on your wife's computer for this additional .Mac account that you wish to publish to. You can add this System account under System Preferences>Accounts. Then log into this account and add the additional .Mac information into the System Preferences there. Launch iWeb and create your page. When you publish, it will be published using the extra .Mac account.
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Hi,
Newbie here. My husband and I each have a macbook, and we each have a site we need to publish. I have iweb on my computer only.
I've already published my site and he would like to do his site using my iweb and publish it through his mobileme. Is this possible? Or does he need his own version of iweb on his computer?
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User Account.
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I just upgraded to iLife 09 and all of my websites showed up red in the new iWeb - indicating that they needed to be published. I hadn't changed any of them since the upgrade but I figured it was part of the upgrade to republish all of them.
Whenever I try to publish the sites I get the following message:
An error occurred while publishing file “/private/var/folders/pM/pMWBd0yEF04cfDIeAZkuPE+TI/TemporaryItems/com.apple.iWeb7281_TEMP_288612390_15/sites/JW/Things_and_Such_files/shapeimage2.png”. Try publishing again later.
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Reboot fixed it.

I'm using a Mac. After swithcing to ICloud will I be able to use IWeb to upload and publish my sites hosted by other servers like Prohosting ?

I'm using a Mac. After swithcing to ICloud will I be able to use IWeb to upload and publish my sites hosted by other servers like Prohosting ?

iWeb has two other ways to publish your site...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/Publish-Website.html
... and the second method allows you a choice of how you upload the files...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/URLs-Favicons.html
Here's a publishing workflow checklist...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Search-Engine-Optimization/Website-Publishing-Wo rkflow.html
The MobileMe only features can be replaced by alternatives...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/Comments-Password-Protect.html
If you have folders of assets outside of the main website folder on MobileMe, download them from the Apple server. From the Finder Go menu, follow the path iDisk/My iDisk/ to get there. Your website files are in the Web/Sites folder. Drag any files/folders onto the desktop.
Use an FTP application to upload these assets to the root folder on your new server...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Search-Engine-Optimization/Upload.html
...and change the relevant URLs to...
http://www.domain-name.com/Folder-Name/file-name.file-extension
There are lots of options for hosting for about half the cost of MobileMe...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/Website-Hosting.html
If you have been using a web.me.com domain name, you need to register a new one. Most hosting services give you at least one free and registering with your hosting company will make forwarding and managing it a lot easier.
Make sure you add the new name to Google and create, upload and enter a new sitemap.xml...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Search-Engine-Optimization/SEO.html
If you have inbound links on other sites...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Search-Engine-Optimization/Inbound-Link.html
... remember to inform the webmasters of you new URL.
"I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link."

Image colors get massacred by iWeb when I publish the site

Hi!
Perhaps someone can help?
I build my pages from within iWeb and the images look fine. Then I publish my site in a local folder and look at it using Safari. The images in Safari are clearly much darker than in iWeb using the same machine with the same screen. What is going on here?
Obviously, iWeb is somehow transforming the color space when it subsamples the images. But to what end, and how can this be controled?
Many thanks in advance,
MP
Alu 15, 2.33 Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.9) iWeb 1.1.2

iWeb is changing your images to PNG image format.
So two choices for you:
1. Convert images on your own to PNG before using them in iWeb
2. Prevent iWeb from changing your image to PNG by using the ORIGINAL SIZE button and by NOT using any effects like the frames and shadow effects

IWeb won't let me publish 2 sites to mobileme....

I have 2 sites created with iweb with 2 different domain names. When I edit both sites, only one site gets published. I do not even have the option of 'publish to mobileme" on pages of my second site. I have tried 'publish all' and Iweb shows that both sites are being uploaded but then no changes appear on site #2 online when refreshed... Can anyone help me?

iWeb 2 always publsihed all sites in the doman file. That's why many users would create individual domain files for publishing. However, if publsihing to the same MMe account there new site would be published but the existing site(s) would be deleted.
The fact that you're publishing the two sites to different accounts would aleviate that potential problem. For using multiple domain files with iWeb 2 I sugget you get iWebSites.
I use iWebSites to manage over 75 individual sites. It lets me create multiple sites:
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and multiple domian files:
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If you have multiple sites in one domain file here's the workflow that I used to split them into individual sites with iWebSites:
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Be sure to make a backup copy of your original Domain.sites files before starting the splitting process and move it to another location on your HD until you're satisfied the separation process is completed and what you want.
This lets me edit several sites and only republish the one I want.
If you don't use iWS you can publish your sites to a folder on your hard drive and upload the site file manually to the appropriate family account on your iDisk.
NOTE: Since iWeb is no longer being supported by Apple I suggest you purchase the boxed iLIFE 11 which contains the latest iWeb as well as iDVD which is also being discontinued by Apple. Once those boxed copies of iLife 11 are gone there will be no way to obtain the last version of iWeb, V 3.0.4. IMO it's worth the cost for the improvements to iWeb over version 2. Also iWeb 3 has a builtin FTP client which will make is eacy to publish your site(s) to a 3rd party hosting server which will be necessary after MobileMe is discontinued on June 30, 2012.
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Want to have two sites on .Mac made with iWeb

I have two folders on my iDisk in the Sites folder with different names. How do I get two different URL's for each website.
So with two folders each titled different can I use the folder names like
http://web.mac.com/foldername/welcome.html
http://web.mac.com/foldername-1/welcome.html
Just got iWeb the other day, I've been using DreamWeaver so I'm new to this simplicity. I'm used to working on Linux webserver too. My old URLs used to be www.name.com/index.html and so forth now this .mac subdomain is tricking me out
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Internet Wiz™

I think everyone will want to know how to do this. I am intested in working on more than two sites and publishing them not on a .Mac account.
What I have begun to do as a work-around is to label the sites by the domain name (xyz.com and abc.com) and then publish them to a separate iweb folder.
Of course the gotcha is that when you publish to an external folder you need to set the url - so each time you publish to a folder you need to set the url correctly for the domain you are working on.
Once published to the iweb folder you then upload the indvidiual files for the particular domain and you are set.
Too bad you can't work on mulitple sites, just highlight the site you want to publish to a folder and then have only that site published.
This is how I expected it to work.
hope this helps,
Dan

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