Moving iWeb site from PowerBook G4 (iWeb 1.1.2) to Intel iMac (iWeb 2.0.4)

Question

We were out of town recently and had a big family adventure that we wanted to share with friends and family who live far from us. We decided to use iWeb on our PowerBook G4 to do this. We had never used iWeb prior to this. We naively thought that we could then just always work on it from our iMac thinking that it was not published to our hard drive but uploaded via our .mac. I have learned since coming home that that is not the case and that, in fact, the domain lives on our PowerBook.
Now we are home and we would like to transfer the site from our PowerBook G4 to our Intel iMac given that we use the iMac predominantly and the PowerBook for travel only.
I read on one support page that all I needed to do was move the domain file under library/applicationsupport/iWeb/domain on the PowerBook to the same location on the iMac. But then I read in other areas of the Apple Support Site, including these forums, that I may not be correct in this. I also thought I read somewhere that the two iWeb applications on the computers need to be the same version, but in other places this is not mentioned. Our PowerBook is running iWeb 1.1.2 and our iMac is running iWeb 2.0.4.
What I am hoping is possible is that I can just use my firewire and Target Disk Mode to transfer the file like I did when I was transferring our iPhoto library to the iMac and our iMovies. It did not seem to matter that the two computers had different versions of these applications, the moves worked like a charm. And I am hoping that perhaps I could still work on the webpage from the laptop when we travel and want to add to the site to keep our friends and family up to date with our activities. Are these things possible?
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks so much!
Teresa

Answer 1

MDTeresa wrote:
in the old days of .mac, before mobile me, there was a way to view your webpage or homepage...
Teresa ~ That was probably using the .Mac HomePage web-based app — but that has nothing to do with iWeb. See this Apple doc:
_MobileMe: Finding your .Mac Homepage_
...figure out how to access my iWeb page using my .mac MobileMe.
Currently, you can't manage your iWeb page via the web — it must be done via the iWeb app on a Mac.
...does that mean that after i transfer it, i can't access it from my iWeb app and that i have to go to it via the library...
You can put that transferred domain file wherever you want on your iMac and you can have multiple domain files. See this article:
_How do you manage multiple domain files for iWeb?_
Double-clicking a domain file will open its site(s) in iWeb. Double-clicking the iWeb app will open the last domain file used.
...or does it mean it will show up in my sites on iWeb and i double click it at that point and then it will convert from 1.1.2 to 2.0.4?
It won't show up as a site in iWeb until you've double-clicked the transferred domain file on your iMac and iWeb has converted it to 2.x format.
But whatever you do, first do backups of your domain files to an external drive so you don't confuse them with the domain files on your Mac's internal drive:
_iWeb ’08: Backing up your Domain file_