Publish without .Mac

I am moving from .Mac to another host and would like to still publish my calander. Is there a way to publish iCal without having a .Mac account?

Hi stinsora:
Have you tryed http://www.icalx.com/?
Is a free WebDAV server. With nice features, like public or private calendars.
I hosted there mine. But now I am looking for a more "professional" Web DAV server. As soon as I have new I will tell you.
But I think that for now, you could give a chance to iCalX.
Pablo.

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Help with publishing without .mac

Here is my problem, I'm taking over a site for our local snowmobile club and I was asked to overhaul and start maintaining the site by the end of this month. Dec 21 is the day I'm suppose to publish the site and the club I'm working for wants to keep their website on local hosting company.
I know it's easy to publish on .mac but I have to keep with their rules so how do I publish on a none dot mac account?
Thanks.

Mike ~ Welcome to the discussions. .Mac was re-branded as MobileMe back in July. This article explains how to publish to a non-MobileMe host:
http://iwebfaq.org/site/iWebFolderFTP.html

IWeb published without .Mac?

I don't want to publish it on .Mac, or have it ready to upload to a server.
What I want is to put it on my Myspace profile frontpage.
I feel stupid for asking, but is there any possible way to do this?
like a string of html, css or something?
x, Jeska

Here are some tips for uploading to a server in case you need them:
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/iwebserver.html

How to publish to .mac without using iWeb?

I have made my website at home and published to a folder on my portable HD. I'm now away from my home Mac, and, as seen in a thread below, I can't reopen in iWeb at work to publish to .mac.
How do I 'publish' to .mac? - is it as simple as copying the Sites folder to my iDisk? If I enter my iWeb URL will it link up with the iWeb pages/files I have uploaded to iDisk?
As you can tell I'm not a web designer!
Thanks in advance, Lee.

Ah, so regarding the previous thread about editing
published iWeb websites, you could theoretically keep
backups of the respective data files with their
websites?
Yes. And you should always keep such backups if you want to avoid having to recreate everything when something goes wrong.
I presume when the data file is replaced in the
Library the application opens up in that website,
rather then offering a choice of new templates?
That's what should happen, yes.

Poor image quality when publishing to .mac

This is very frustrating.
I buy a high resolution, high quality, royalty-free image. I resize it and crop it in my image editing program and save it as a maximum size .jpg.
I preview the image in Apple preview, and also drag the image into my web browser and it looks crisp and sharp.
I put the image on my iWeb page and publish to .mac. I check my site and the image looks horrible! It looks as though it got compressed again on the lowest setting.
Something very weird is happening to some people. I've read other discussion on this but they are all unresolved.
I'm a graphic designer and I've used dreamweaver and published to other servers. I know about image quality and optimization. I'm doing the same steps and procedures I've always done to optimize images and I've never had this problem except when I publish to .mac.
There is a very weird and serious issue going on and I hope someone can resolve this or has an answer.
Why would an image look crisp and sharp when I view it in my image editing program or in Apple preview, but when publish to .mac it gets re-compressed?
This may sound silly but do you think Apple is doing this randomly and automatically to users to save server space on .mac? Maybe they think people wont notice or care?
I am very upset and frustrated and I can't think of any other reason why this is happening.
Any advice is helpful. Thanks!

James,
Thank you very much for your help.
Here is what I did. I used Apple grab and took a screen shot of my iWeb page where the low res graphic was in position.
I used this as a "template" for cropping my original image in my image editing program to the exact size I needed.
I cropped my original image to the size of my "grab" template, deleted the template layer and saved the sharp image as a maximum file size .jpg and placed it into my iWeb page, with "use original size". It fit perfectly in my layout and looked sharp and crisp.
Now, I published my site and checked the image.
You were correct! The image came out crisp and sharp, no more quality loss.
To test your theory, I went back to iWeb and placed an iWeb mask around the same image and re-published it.
Sure enough! The same image that was once sharp had terrible image loss.
So I guess you're right, adding any effects to an image creates the image loss.
Well, this is a terrible shame because I really like some of the border effects. For example, in a photo gallery, you can use an effect such as a slight page curl with drop shadow that appears only for the thumbnail image but the when you click on the image full size, there is no page curl, just the pure image.
If I create this slight page curl effect and drop shadow in my image editing program, then both my thumbnail and full size image will have this effect.
Not only that, but in order to get the thumbnail image to lay over my background color, I would have to re-create the page curl effect and place it on a border of the same background color as my page layout. When someone clicks on my thumbnail they will now get the full size image with the page curl effect and a slight border of the page color.
Also creating this effect in my image editing program will make it more time consuming when I want to change layout styles, because when I create the page curl / drop shadow in my image editing program, I have to change the background color around each image to match the new background color I'm using for my page. Doing this for 20 images every time I want to change my design is allot of work.
If this is what I have to do, then I have no choice. But at least I would like my thumbnail to have the effect but NOT my full size image.
How do I do this so only my iWeb thumbnail image has this effect without iWeb forcing it to a PNG and loosing quality?
Thanks I appreciate you help!

Using iweb without Mac Me ?

Hi,
im new to all this and trying to use iweb to create a new site for myself.
i cannot publish because Mac Me is no longer available and i dont have a previous subscription.
i would like to use Mac to publish my site without going external is this still possible?
i have read about going through another hositing site.
but i would rather stay using Mac programs and Hostings if i still can.
Can anyone help???

Unfortunately there isn't a way to publish to mobileme unless you already have an account there, and even if you did I wouldn't suggest getting it all set up and then having to change it next july.
I'd recommend purchasing a domain name and hosting from somewhere like Lunarpages.com and then they will provide you with the FTP settings to load your page up onto.
A good link for using iWeb with another host is:
http://www.ehow.com/how_4819834_publish-iweb-mobileme.html
The main thing is that you want to get yourself set up with something that will be around and supported for quite a long time so you don't have to redo things again.
Keep in mind that from the looks of it iWeb isn't being developed anymore... at least get yourself publishing to another service. It will take effort and work, but it will be your best option.

Publishing on .Mac versus another hosting plan

I published the same Blog on .Mac and another hosting plan and get different results. To publish to my hosting plan at aPlus.net I first publish to a folder on my disk and then ftp that folder to my host.
At ,Mac the Blog works fine. At aPlus.net when I click on the first entry I get the following error
Not Found
The requested URL /Investing/Blog/Entries/2007/8/18The_week_afterpillâ€¦.html was not found on this server.
Note the strange characers inserted after pilla....I have published the same stuff several times to a different folder and have ftp-ed several copies of this folder to aPlus. but the results are different compared to .Mac
You can check it out by going to these two sites and click on the first entry
http://www.flemishDNA.com/Investing/Blog/Blog.html
This is the copy residing on .Mac
http://www.dokuspublishing.com/Investing/Blog/Blog.html
this is the same blog residing at aPlus.net
Where do these strange characters come from and how come publishing to .Mac and to another host turn out to produce different results ?
Anyone?

Non-.Mac servers sometimes have more restrictions on characters they will accept. Yours is perhaps not accepting the ellipsis in UTF-8.
One thing you could try is to put an .htaccess file in your web space with the entry "SecFilterEngine Off" and/or "SecFilterCheckUnicodeEncoding Off" (without quotes).
A utility for fixing filenames with accented characters is available here.
http://sschoenb.blogspot.com/2007/08/iweb-and-umlaut-characters.html

Publish Error: .Mac Publish Configuration Values

Ever since the update to OS X 10.4.7, I have been unable to successfully publish any changes to an existing iWeb site. Whenever I try to publish I get a dialog box with the following:
Publish Error
There was an error determining the .Mac publish configuration values. Please try again in a few minutes.
No matter how many times I attempt to re-try the Publish, I get the same message. I have checked the configuration of my .Mac preferences and everything looks fine (I am able to sync with .Mac without any problems).
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
- John
20" iMac G5, 2GHz, 2GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.4) iWeb 1.1.1

OK... here's an update. After successfully getting iWeb to publish using another WiFi network (as opposed to my home satellite internet connection), I decided to see if I could force iWeb to get its act together and complete a publish at home.
I WAS SUCCESSFULL! At least partly....
Here's what I did. Follow these steps at your own risk:
(1) With iWeb closed-down, I went to the location of the Domain file that stores all of the iWeb files and data (found in your Home folder under Library/Application Support/iWeb)
(2) Copied the file as a safety backup
(3) Right-clicked (or <CTRL>-clicked for single-button mouse users) and selected the "Show Package Contents" option
(4) In the resulting window, I highlighted and deleted the following items:
- The "cached_resources" folder
- assets.xxx.plist (where xxx is your .Mac username)
- deletedComments.xxx.plist (same explanation for xxx as above)
- ServerCachedResources.plist
- sharedassets.plist
(5) I then re-launched iWeb and triggered a "Publish All to .Mac" AND IT WORKED!!! Without a hitch!
Once the publish completed, I tried making a small text edit to a single page and then re-publishing.... but then I got the "Can't publish xxx file, try again" error. It appears that, over a satellite internet connection at least, iWeb is unable to overwrite a file that already exists on .Mac successfully without performing all of the above steps.
So... I went back in and repeated the same steps as above. Unfortunately, that resets iWeb into thinking that everything has been successfully published, so in order to get my small text change up, I had to "Publish All to .Mac" again... a bit tedious to have to upload the WHOLE site just to get one small change posted... but better than having to FTP files separately!
So... Apple... if you're listening, it seems that there is definitely an issue with iWeb publishing to .Mac over a high-latency network connection. PLEASE DO SOMETHING!!! I am reading that iWeb 2.0 is already in the works... with lots of enhancements, etc. I sure hope that PUBLISHING is one of them!
Hope this information helps someone else out there. Just be careful... I'm not happy having to mess around in the innerworkings of iWeb's files... and I'm not sure what the long range ramifications could be. Proceed at your own risk!
- John
20" iMac G5, 2GHz, 2GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Syncing iCal calendars without .Mac

My wife has two computers, desktop and laptop. She would like to be able to sync her calendars, one from each machine. Is this possible without .Mac membership. If so, could someone please tell me how it's done?
I do have a .Mac membership. Is it legal for her to publish her calendars to my .Mac and then subscribe to them so they'd show up on her two machines.
Any help at all with this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Martin
Intel iMac Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Martin,
Try iSynCal: iSynCal is built to synchronize events and todo from iCal calendars between two or more Mac computers using the standard Apple File Sharing shipped with Mac OSX. Using iSynCal, you no longer need a .Mac account neither to publish your calendars on an external FTP or WebDav server.
You can even use iSynCal to sync your iCal calendars with your iPod or between multiple users on the same Mac.Regarding your second question, legality is not the issue, since the .Mac account belongs to your username, only you can publish calendars to that account.
;~)

Getting your RSS feed to work without .Mac

OK, so there have been a few people asking about this and I have figured out a way around it. I must warn you it is not a simple solution, but if you are comfortable using Text Edit to modify the code of your pages, it is a piece of cake - but still fairly tedious. If anyone has a quicker solution, please let us know! I would love to come up with an apple script to automate this process, but that takes time...
The reason Apple says you can only use the RSS subscribe feature by using a .Mac account is because iWeb creates an additional directory that those of us using 3rd party servers don't use. They do this to separate multiple iWeb sites on your .Mac account. When you publish to a file, that extra directory is the parent folder that you extract each page's file from to load to your public_html folder on your server, so you end up not using that iWeb site folder.
For example, in publishing to .Mac, I will find my Blog rss.xml file on my iDisk under Web/Sites/iWeb/BookEndMedia/Blog/rss.xml, creating the URL of http://web.mac.com/audiogeek/BookEndMedia/Blog/rss.xml. In publishing to my 3rd party server with domain www.bookendmedia.com, that file is found in public_html/Blog/rss.xml, creating the URL of http://www.bookendmedia.com/Blog/rss.xml.
The problem arises in iWeb's creation of the rss.xml file, blog-main.xml file, and blog-archive.xml file, which are all located in the Blog folder. Each of these files create links to the Entries files and jpegs, and in doing so adds the BookEndMedia directory, which is does not exist in our 3rd party server.
The way I found to fix this is after publishing and before uploading to open all 3 files mentioned above in Text Edit, hit Command F to find and replace all instances of "/BookEndMedia/" with "/", removing the extra directory from all links.
There is however one more glitch I found that has nothing to do with the extra directory. These .xml files that iWeb creates look for all jpegs from each entry in the Media folder. iWeb now stores these files in the same folder as the blog entry. Instead of changing each link in the .xml files, I simply copied each jpeg into the Media file.
After doing all this I now have a functioning RSS feed that any RSS reader can subscribe to and even see the pictures. The only problem is every time I post I have to go through all this again with each .xml file and copying the new entry's jpeg into the Media folder.
Hopefully Apple will come up with a way for iWeb to distinguish if you are publishing to a folder and write the appropriate code for creating these .xml files. Until then, we will have to do these extra steps to get what we want - or we can come up with an Apple Script to save us some time (anyone?).
In the mean time I will count my blessings in the fact that thanks to iWeb I only have to modify 3 .xml files and not write code for every single page of my site.
Hope this helps, and if anyone has any suggestions, please let us know!
And please feel free to give me feedback on my site.
Thanks!

Here is a sample of the beginning of the blog-main.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rss xmlns:iweb="http://www.apple.com/iweb" version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>Blog</title>
<link>http://www.bookendmedia.com/BookEndMedia/Blog</link>
<description>Here you will find press releases and coverage that BookEnd Media Publicity has produced for our clientele. Check back regularly for the latest information.</description>
<item>
<title>Andrew Peterson featured in The Tennessean</title>
<link>http://www.bookendmedia.com/BookEndMedia/Blog/Entries/2007/12/11Andrew_Peterson_featured_in_TheTennessean.html</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">d6a00155-2e0a-4efe-bc24-97e5381f16ac</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:27:46 -0600</pubDate>
<description>The Tennessean interviews Andrew Peterson about his Christmas musical Behold The Lamb Of God: The True Tall Tale of the Coming of Christ.<br/><br/>Read the full article at: <a href="http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article%253FAID%253D2007712130301 ">http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007712130301</a></description>
<iweb:image href="Media/petersontennessean.jpg"></iweb:image>
<iweb:comment enabled="0" link="http://www.bookendmedia.com/BookEndMedia/Blog/Entries/2007/12/11Andrew_Peterson_featured_in_The_Tennessean.html#commentlayer" count="0"></iweb:comment>
</item>
I'm not crazy, I did see the Main folder issue above in the <iweb:image href="Media/petersontennessean.jpg"></iweb:image>
I guess it doesn't affect what I need though.

Event invitations not published to .mac web page with rest of calendar

I've published a calendar to the .mac web server successfully, and the web page for the named calendar shows up fine in browsers at the appropriate URL.
However, when I receive an invitation from somebody else, and accept it, and put it into that (published) calendar, that event does NOT get published to the web page. Any idea why?
Example
- Joe uses Google Calendar to invite me to a meeting
- Google calendar sends me a .ics file in email
- I open the .ics file (click in Apple Mail, which launches iCal)
- I view the invitation in iCal; then change the status to "Accepted" (from Invited), and change the Calendar for this event to the Calendar I've published on .mac
- (iCal properly notifies Joe via a reply .ics via email that I've accepted)
- iCal is properly updating my schedule on .mac for all other events besides this meeting invitation; but the meeting invitation does not get pushed to the .mac web page for my calendar
Item of note: In this use case, I am NOT the event Organizer; somebody else is. Is this why iCal doesn't do it? Or is there something I'm not setting correctly in iCal? Or...?
This renders .mac-web-published calendars effectively useless, since a good share of my calendar is made up of people who email me .ics invitations, and (for various reasons) the person who manages my schedule has to use the .mac web UI for my calendar to know when she can dish out my time. (She doesn't actually put things in my schedule; just allots time.)
HELP!
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

See also http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1133628

Incorrect format when published to .mac but ok published to folder

Problems started after updating iWeb to 1.1.1.
Problems are 1) incorrect visited and unvisited links and 2) incorrect placement.
Here is the link to the site published to .mac
http://web.mac.com/amalin/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html
I've placed a screen shot as it (correctly) appears when published to a folder.
Here is the link to the screen shot
http://web.mac.com/amalin/iWeb/Site/tmp/Welcome.png
You can see the differences in the "Newsletters" section of the page as well as other areas.
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards,
Al Malin
iMac 17 Flat Panel w/Super Dr Mac OS X (10.4.7) iWeb 1.1.1

Hi Al,
I can't seem to reproduce the bold/highlighted link thing over here on my end. I have loaded your page on my Safari as well as on a PC using IE and FireFox. All looks okay.
Perhaps try emptying your browser cache and reload the page. Maybe this will clear some cobwebs and let you see the page properly. Good luck!

IWeb publishing to .Mac/iDisk- interruptions: does connection speed matter?

Greetings,
I posted an earlier message somewhere in the iWeb08 forum regarding my suddenly experiencing lack of completion of publishing iWeb site to .Mac. Publishing just stops - no error message comes up. I have however noticed that my internet connection has been also varying in speed - down to a few dozen kbps in the last day, which is when I started experiencing this problem. Does connection speed affect such publishing? in other words, if connection speed goes down tremendously, does publishing to .Mac sort os "times out"???
Will appreciate input!
- Roger T

More than likely you are seeing a cached copy of your website. Sometimes this is a local phenomenon and a simple clearing of your browser cache does the trick (Safari>Empty Cache). However sometimes your ISP is the culprit with caching at their level. This seems to be a chronic problem with ISPs in the UK for some reason. And the only thing you can do is to wait it out.
You can try adding a "?" to the end of your URL to force Safari to fetch a non-locally-cached copy of your site, but even this won't help if your ISP is overzealously caching material.
Anyone in the UK can shed light on this ISP phenomenon???
If you find this information useful, please don't forget to provide me with feedback by marking my reply as "solved" or "helpful" using those little buttons that you see in the title bar of this reply. I really appreciate it!

IWeb page didn't publish to .mac

I created a web site in iWeb and chose command "publish to .mac" when it was ready. I got an error message saying it didn't publish, but not why. (Yes, I already have a .mac account.)
The page also does not appear under the URL http://web.mac.com/[YourMemberName]. (With the latter part filled in correctly, minus the brackets.)
Worst of all, I cannot find the original iWeb site, only the index copy saved as a Safari file, so I can't attempt to republish.
One, where did my original work go?
Two, why didn't it publish, and what can I do to fix it?

To see the problem go to http://web.mac.com/robruhn
I don't seen any problem. Perhaps it is just your local browser cache? Try clearing your cache and using another browser.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how the pc
user can form the link?
http://web.mac.com/robruhn should work just fine, unless the person at the other end is mistyping it or something. I would suggest that you get rid of the space in your site name and republish, as that might cause problems for some systems (i.e. change Site 3 to Site3 or Site-3 or Site_3).

Publish to .Mac/Publish All to .Mac

Under file I have the option to "Publish to .Mac" or "Publish All to .Mac." What 's the difference?
Thanks,
Pasquale

Hi Pasquale!
How are you? I hope you are having fun with iWeb!
"Publish All to .Mac" tells iWeb to publish each and every file of your website to your iDisk.
"Publish to .Mac" is the default publishing action. The "Publish" button in the lower left corner does the same thing. When you first publish your site, iWeb has to publish everything from scratch. But subsequent publishing only uploads the changed files, which saves time. This only works on .mac. So, the bottomline is that you should probably use the standard "Publish to .Mac" under normal circumstances.
Sometimes when problems crop up, one recommendation is to use the "Publish ALL to .Mac" option to lay down your site from scratch again. It's like erasing and publishing over again.

Publish without .Mac

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