Merging Two iWeb Sites

Here's my dilemma. I have a nice site I've set up on my powerbook. Last week I created another site on my iMac at home. What I'd like to do is somehow transfer the site from the iMac to the powerbook so that I can access and modify both.
Any thoughts and pearls of wisdom are greatly appreciated.
iMac & Powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.8)

You can move your iWeb work from your iMac to your PowerBook easily. iWeb saves all of the information enabling the editing and publishing of your sites in a single file called "Domain". This file is located on the harddrive in the following folder pathway.../Users/username/Library/Application Support/iWeb/...
You have one of these Domain files on each of your computers. In order to transfer your site, all you need to do is to copy this Domain file from your iMac onto your PowerBook. Since you will then have two Domain files, you may find it helpful to organize them in descriptive folders. I would recommend against renaming the Domain files themselves. Here is an illustrative image of the proper organization...
Once you have your Domain files organized. It's easiest to simply double-click on whichever Domain file is associated with the site you want to work on. iWeb will then open that Domain file. That Domain file will also become the default Domain file used until you double-click on another Domain file.

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All you can do is copy the domain file of your newest site from one Mac to the other so that you have both domain files on one machine. You can find the domain files under User/Library/Application Support/iWeb/domain.sites.
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Thanks for the help. Here's the latest, I changed my Site name to Documents, so that it would match my webserver's information. (I changed my current Documents folder to Documents-bak so I wouldn't destroy it.) I published the new Documents iWeb along with some changes. After publishing, I took a folder with some pdfs in it from my backup and manually copied it to the new Documents folder. Checked the website and everything worked. Then I went back to iWeb, added a new Album, the published it. The folder I copied over was gone....poof!
This leads me to think I should have a splash page under my webserver root directory (/Documents/index.html) that links to /Documents/Site/index.html (with Site being my iWeb site) and leaving all the other items under /Documents. This would prevent the deletion of files that don't relate to iWeb since it is in a different directory.
Sorry if I'm being confusing, for the last 15 years I've built sites with things like Frontpage, Dreamweaver and other programs where I didn't have to worry about this stuff. I love iWeb because the site I'm talking about is my personal site with kids' pictures and it's pretty easy to use.
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Hello,
About a year ago I thought it would be nice to work with two seperate iWeb domains. To make a long story short: it isn't.
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Julian ~ See section 6 here:
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...found by doing THIS.
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I have two Macs, and use my desktop for working at home, and my laptop for working away, or when on holiday for working with photographs and, hopefully, blogs. I set up my iWeb site initially using the desktop, and then tried to edit the site using my laptop, only to find that it cannot, seemingly, be done.
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The answer is Domain.sites (extension hidden by default). You'll find this on your desktop machine at Users/YourUserName/Library/Application Support/iWeb. Copy that file to removable media and drag it to the same location on your laptop. Launch iWeb and you'll see your desktop site structure in the Site Organizer.
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erikpotter,
Welcome to the discussions area.
The only way to edit any iWeb-created site with the application itself is by opening the Domain file, found in this location on your computer.
An iWeb Domain file can be opened with any Macintosh computer running the same version of iWeb the site was created in. You just need to make the Domain file available to the other person/machine.
Here are some tips for sharing and editing the same iWeb site between two machines.
Mark

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With the previous iweb version, my children created their own iweb sites on their own users, but all under my own .mac account. It worked great.
But now with the new "upgraded" iweb '08, that isn't allowed anymore.
So, I created a new user on our computer for all of us to use to maintain our multiple iweb accounts on.
How can I move multiple iweb sites from multiple users on the same computer into one user?

Each of the user's work in iWeb will be contained in a single file, Domain.sites2, which can be found in this location on the hard drive for each user account. You will need to copy all of these Domain.sites2 files to an external drive, or, at the very least, burn them to a disk to make them transferable from one user account to another. A flash drive also works great for this.
Once you have made all of these Domain files accessible from the new user account that you created, you will still have a formidable task ahead of you, i.e., publishing separate sites, from separate Domain.sites2 files, to the same .Mac account/directory. In other words, bringing all of these Domain files together for access by a single user account will not solve the problem. You may very well be able to solve the problem with things the way they are, but it will involve some shuffling of Site's files on the iDisk prior to publishing.
The method I'm going to give you has worked well for me. So far, here in the forums, I've read posts from (2) other users who were also successful. Conversely, I know of at least (3) other users who have been unsuccessful with this approach. I sure hope it works for you.
Open System Preferences and go to .Mac. Turn syncing off, if it is on, and leave it off.
Now, in Finder, navigate to the current Site files on your iDisk, following this path:
Go/iDisk/My iDisk/Web/Sites/NameOfSiteFolder
Drag the Site folder that is named for your site, (not the directory Site folder), back one level on the iDisk, into the Web folder. This is where some run into difficulties--you may get an error message that the folder is "in use, and cannot be moved". I have never gotten this message, and am able to move my Site's folders around with no problem on the iDisk.
If you are successful moving the folder, choose one of your other accounts on your machine, launch iWeb, and Publish all to .Mac. The existing site on the server will not be deleted. Now, go back to the iDisk and move that site folder, (the one you just published), back one level, again, to the root Web directory. Publish your next site, from your next account.
When you are finished publishing sites, just move the Site folders back to their original location on the iDisk--Web/Sites/SiteFoldersHere. All sites will be accessible from a browser using the web.mac.com/username/nameofsite url.
It is important to use the Publish all to .Mac command in iWeb. A simple Publish to .Mac command will not put the correct index.html file in place on the server.
Post back and inform us of your success.
-Mark

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Hi,
I gather from other posts that iWeb stores:
• its local copy of a site in ~/Library/Application Support/iWeb/,
• the (.Mac) published copy in iDisk/Web/Sites/,
and this site would become available at <http://web.mac.com/thubsch>. (Nothing there, yet.)
I have an extensive web-site in my iDisk/Sites/ folder (locally stored in ~/Sites/), and as long in the tooth as it is, I'd like to keep it. This site is accessible at <http://homepage.mac.com/thubsch/>.
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The different storage and access patterns let me believe that one can have both, with no interference. Is that true?
Q.2:
If iWeb's web pages are modified externally (with another HTML or TEXT editor), can iWeb accept those edits and carry on, or are they no longer iWeb-editable?
Thanks, Tristan

1. Yes, homepage stuff and iweb stuff is independent and in totally different places.
2. Any edits you make to an iWeb site after publishing have to be made again after any republishing from iWeb. iWeb only works with its own data in the Domain file and has no way to open a published site or .html files or any way to know what you have added to one.
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/iwebdata.html

IWEB site lost problem - have archive.html file

I've lost my previously published IWeb site but have found a full copy of it (photos and blog) on my computer here - file:///Users/.../Sites/Site.../J...s/Archive.html. It's no where else to be found. Is there any way/where that could restore this site to the web from this file alone? I had a serious computer issue and have lost many of those site photos.

janemci wrote:
If I get this old site back into IWeb...
Jane ~ It's not clear to me what the situation is. Do you have two iWeb Domain files on the same Mac? ...If so, it's okay to keep them separate (in their own folder) and open each as needed by double-clicking. By the way, for searching purposes it may be useful to know that an iWeb '06 Domain file is called "Domain.sites" and iWeb '08 & '09 Domain files are called "Domain.sites2" — although the “.sites” extension is usually invisible.
It's also possible to merge multiple Domain files into one — see this old beta software called iWebSites:
http://mistergregg.com/cocoadrillosoftware/iWebSites/
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