Opening iweb files?

I am new to iWeb, and am wondering how to edit the website I created with iWeb. There is no "Open" option on the File menu. So does this mean that I can't go to the dot mac server and download the files to edit on one of my computers?
a bit confusted in St. Paul

iWeb stores your data in a domain.sites2 file located in Home Folder/Library/Application Support/iWeb.
Once you have published your files, there is no way to import them back into iWeb.
You have to have the domain file. You should therefore back it up regularly.
You can down load your files from .Mac by going to Finder/Go/iDisk/My iDisk/Web/Sites and dragging them onto your desktop.
These will save you time when you rebuild your website.
See...
http://iwebfaq.org/site/iWebBackupretrieve.html

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Put the copied domain file somewhere, or rename it and put it in the Application Support/iWeb folder, and double-click it. That should open it.

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Hi! I have read so many forums about this topic. The solution everyone seems to have is to publish your iweb files to a folder and then open index.html through dreamweaver. I can open the file, however, it only displays a code and the file size is only 4kb. I know that my site is way larger than that, so I'm thinking i'm opening it incorrectly or something. So if anyone knows and could give me fool proof step by step "for dummies" directions, that would be awesome!!

iWeb's index.html files don't have any content. Open the other .html files which you find in the sitename folder.

Can't open iWeb files to upload to internet

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I created my website using iWeb, and use iWeb SEO Tool (3rd party software) to upload onto the internet so that my website can be found on the net.
But since upgrading to Lion OSX I can't open my iWeb file in iWeb SEO - my Library file has been moved and my iWeb file has disappeared!! I have since found the iWeb file through Finder (by using Go to ~/Library/) but still cannot find it using iWeb SEO so can't upload changes to my website.
Can someone help please? It is very frustrating!
Many thanks in advance!

Lilly Long Legs wrote:
Hi
I created my website using iWeb, and use iWeb SEO Tool (3rd party software) to upload onto the internet so that my website can be found on the net.
But since upgrading to Lion OSX I can't open my iWeb file in iWeb SEO - my Library file has been moved and my iWeb file has disappeared!! I have since found the iWeb file through Finder (by using Go to ~/Library/) but still cannot find it using iWeb SEO so can't upload changes to my website.
Can someone help please? It is very frustrating!
Many thanks in advance!
Have you checked to see if iWeb SEO is compatable with Lion or if there is an update for it? Apple have dropped iWeb from their iLife suite in Lion. It will continue to work, but uploading to MobileMe will cease very shortly.
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Opening iweb files on an other computer.

Is it possible to open a page in iweb from another location ?
Or hen i abroad, is it then possible to download it en open the files ?

Browser-based design apps would be more suitable for remote access, plus you wouldn't be restricted to using a Mac. Assuming you don't want to re-do your entire iWeb site, a compromise would be to re-do just the pages you would want to update remotely and hyperlink your iWeb site to those pages...
synthasite.com
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I CAN NOT FIND MY IWEB FILES SO THAT I CAN USE THE (SEO TOOL) HELP

IM TRYING TO MAKE MY WEB SITE NOTICED ON SEARCH ENGINE...
SO I DOWN LOADED THE SEO TOOL FROM MAC STORE
THE TOOL IS ASKING ME TO OPEN IWEB FILES IN MY MAC AND COPY/PASTE TO PAGE
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WHY DO YOU SHOUT!!!
Here's a tip :
Publish to a folder. It's probably explained in the manual.
Repeat : IN THE MANUAL
Another tip.
Write interesting content.
Advertise.
Make yourself known.
Magic words : social media
And provide a clickable link.
Google indexes this forum in realtime and would have found your website in a hour or so.
Missed opportunity.

How do I Get IWEB to open saved files?

Here's the problem...
I was building a "new site" to show my boss how easy and excellent the iweb program is for making any kind of site... (my site is www.crossfitmyrtlebeach.com) and i web was copying the site to my crossfit folders.
So I found "iwebSites" app program, and created '2' distinct sites.
And created this mock up of a site for my boss.
Then was UNABLE to open the CrossFit sites though all the folders showed up...
So... I've deleted ALL the files, and somewhere, somehow...the mockup is STILL showing up when I open IWEB.
Under my user/library/appsuprt/iweb folder...there is NOTHING in the folder... no domain site name, nothing.
Yet it is still opening up?
Can anyone advise how I can get Iweb to look at and OPEN the files saved in my CrossFit folder?
Or am a screwed?
Thanks

yeah, I found the file...put it BACK in the proper iweb support folder, along with the site files, etc.... seems to be working now..
Thanks!

My new computer does not have iWeb and I can't open the files from the old computer. What can I do???

I'm really desperate. I used to publish to a blog directly from iWeb, then I discontinued it. When I made the switch to iCloud, I wasn't worried because I knew my files would always be there. However, once I got a new computer, I transferred all the old files to an external hard drive and I thought everything would work just fine. Well, it didn't Neither can I open iWeb nor can I find my files.
Can anyone help me please?

New Macs have not shipped with iWeb for over 2 years and Apple has not sold or supported iWeb for at least 2 years now - Apple stopped selling it and dropped support for it when MobileMe was ditched in favour of iCloud which does not offer hosting.
If you want iWeb, then you will need to have a look at your old installation CD's for your old Mac and see if iWeb is on these and you can then install it from there or if you don't have these CD's any longer, then you'll have no option but to purchase a copy of either iLife 09 or iLife 11 from Amazon - these boxed sets both contain iWeb 09, which is the latest version of iWeb.
Other than this and as you have not done your blog for sometime, perhaps you should consider re-creating it from scratch with a software that is actively supported and updated - that is NOT iWeb any longer.
You could try using WordPress, either .com or .org - .org is good if you already have hosting and you can install WordPress directly onto your server. If you want something free, then you could use WordPress.com which is then published on the WordPress servers.
You could also take a look at EverWeb from Rage Software, which is very new and is very like iWeb with all the extras, such as drop down menus etc. Take a look at http://www.everwebapp.com.
As for your files, it sounds that when you say files, these might be the published files for your site, if you went into iWeb and published them to a local folder? This is not a backup and even if you could find these files, then iWeb will not be able to open them because it has no import facility, so cannot open an already published site - html and css files.
What you need is your domain.sites files which can be found under your User Library/Application Support/iWeb/domain.sites.
I would cut your losses and if you don't have iWeb, then don't bother paying for software that is now outdated and unsupported - move onto to something new and re-create everything in either WordPress or EverWeb.

IWeb won't open domain file

Last week, we published our Web site via Mobile Me. This week, when we tried to modify the Web site, there is an error message saying that it can't open the file. If I trash the plist files in both the domain file and in the Library folders, iWeb will open fine, but it'll ask me to create a new domain file.
We've been keeping the domain file on a Shared server so a few other people can update the Web site. They've been downloading the domain file to their local computers, editing the Web site, then placing the edited domain file back into the Shared folder.
Why would this not be working this week where it's been working fine the past 4-5 weeks?
I'm using Snow Leopard (I know others have had problems with Lion).

We've been keeping the domain file on a Shared server so a few other people can update the Web site. They've been downloading the domain file to their local computers, editing the Web site, then placing the edited domain file back into the Shared folder.
How do you know the doman file you download to work on is the latest? If two users are making changes at the same time and one then uploads to the server and then the other uploads the domain file will not have all of the changes. How to you control that?
The problem could be some kind of permission issue. Try running BatChmod on the domain file with the settings in this screenshot and try opening it with iWeb again:
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When I opened iweb it opened as a file I deleated. I have a published website with godaddy and would like to update. How can I open the existing iWeb app to the site that is already published?

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You cannot retrieve the already published site as iWeb CANNOT open it - it has no import facility.
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Use a spotlight search to try and find it and if this does not work you can download something called Find Any File. If you really can't find it, then you'll have to start from scratch because iWeb cannot open a site that is already published.

IWeb won't open .html file

Greetings,
I recently upgraded from a G5 running Tiger to an Intel iMac with Leopard. I have several basic web pages that I used to edit using the ancient Classic app, Claris Home Page.
Now that I can no longer run Classic apps, I thought I'd give iWeb a try. I right-clicked an html file and selected Open With. In the dialog box, iWeb was greyed out, so I switched from Recommended Applications to All Applications. Then, when I selected iWeb, the app gave an error message saying it could not open a .html file.
Umm, isn't that the point of the app, or is this thing designed to create some sort of proprietary file format specific for use with MobileMe?
BTW, after this, I was unable to launch iWeb directly from the Finder because it would always try to open that same file again, resulting in the same error. I had to trash the prefs files and empty the trash before I could open iWeb again and get to that opening template page.
Help? thanks
Dennis

When you create a site in iWeb it saves it in its own special format in a file called 'Domain' in ~/Library/Application Support/iWeb. When you publish, to MobileMe, to a local folder, or to another server, it creates the html, css and other files on the fly and uploads them to the server. When you want to edit, you open iWeb, it reads the Domain file, and you edit as necessary and re-upload. If you want to edit the site on another computer, you have to copy the Domain file to that computer and open it in iWeb. You cannot re-import the published html files and edit them in iWeb, nor edit html files made in another application.
To do that you could use Kompozer (free).

Opening dreamweaver files in iweb

I just got an apple computer and it is my first time using one. I had built a website in dreamweaver CS3 on my PC and now I would like to transfer it to iweb and use that. But I can't seem to open my dreamweaver files in iweb. I was told they were compatible. I know it is probably something really simple but I would appreciate the help.

The answer is a really simple one and that is you can't open Dreamweaver files in iWeb. iWeb is not an html editor in the same way that Dreamweaver is.
I don't know who told you the two were compatible, but they gave you the wrong info.
You can still run Dreamweaver on a Mac, but you'd have to stump up the cash to buy the Mac version rather than the PC version and it costs.
Why would you want to use iWeb when you have used Dreamweaver?

When I try to open iweb I get the following message: Can't open file "~/Sites/NAVIGATOR/index.html." How do I fix this? Using 10.6.3 soon to be 10.6.6 and then Lion.

When I try to open iweb I get the following message: Can’t open file “~/Sites/NAVIGATOR/index.html.” How do I fix this? Using 10.6.3 soon to be 10.6.6 and then Lion. I have never opened the product before and have had it on the computer since new.

Go into your Users/Home/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder and see if there's a file titled Domain.sites. If there is double click on it and see if iWeb opens.
If there is no Domain file there do the following:
delete the iWeb preference files, com.apple.iWeb.plist and com.apple.iWeb.plist.lockfile, that resides in your Home() /Library/Preferences folder.
go to your Home()/Library/Caches/com.apple.iWeb folder and delete its contents.
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launch iWeb and try again.
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Problem Opening Site Files in iWeb 3.0.4

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In Lion the Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and hit the Enter button - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.
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