Publishing a website not designed in iWeb

I have a small site that I designed in GoLive. I want to upload it to .mac account and without using any of the templates offered there. Is this possible to do? How can it be done? Thanks

You question is probably best asked in one of the .mac forums, but I can give you a brief answer here. I don't know anything about GoLive or how it "publishes." But you can copy/save html files to the Sites folder of you iDisk. They will then have a homepage url. For example:
http://homepage.mac.com/hoovmoss/iWebIsGrey.html
This is a web page I created in a word processor and saved to the Sites folder of my iDisk.
kabing

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I created a website on iWeb and published using my own domain name. I can find it on my iDisk but it is not showing up on iWeb. I searched using users/library/applicationsolutions/iweb and it is still not showing up. How can I find and make changes to the site.

No, iWeb can't edit published files. Are you using time machine or any other kind of back up software?
If so you might find a backup of the file there. If you can't find the file you will have to start over.
my file is named exactly: Domain.sites2
Can you find a file that's named something like that?
If you do have to start over, don't publish to mobile me until you're sure you like the new site better than the old one. Once you publish to mobileMe the new work will overwrite the old one, otherwise the old site will remain as it is on mobileMe.
David

Newly published ".mac" website not found by Google

I just published my first website which is :
http://.mac.com/[username],
But a google search for "username" does not turn up my website, making it kinda useless. Where'd I go wrong? the actual"username" is makingnewfromold
bniblick needs help. email to [email protected]

This is an edit of my own posted question.
I published my first website, to dot-Mac and it was easily accessed by various computers by typing the URL,etc. However, a google search for "MemberName"did not turn up the website, making it kinda useless to me.
Obviously publishing something made with iWeb to ".Mac" puts it on the internet, but does not make it visible to even the Google search engine. So what else does one need to do to get an iWeb-created site noticed?
[I have since then removed the site from the Web---waiting to try again after I might learn something from discussion sharers. Thanks

Help. My site published but is not saved in iWeb

I am completely flummoxed. I put together a one-page site yesterday and published it to Mobile Me fine. But when I went into iWeb today to make some changes the finished, published version of the site is not there. All I have is the original template from before I started work on it.
How come it hasn't saved into iWeb on publication?
And how do I get the finished version of the site back into iWeb so I can edit it?
Thanks
Sarah

First, download Find Any File and use it to search for "domain.sites" to see if there are more than one domain file.
If there is try the other to see if it contains your site. If there is no other domain file but the one in your Users/Home/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder, try the following:
delete the iWeb preference file, com.apple.iWeb.plist, that resides in your Home()/Library/Preferences folder.
go to your Home()/Library/Caches/com.apple.iWeb folder and delete its contents.
launch iWeb and try again.
If that doesn't help continue with:
move the domain file from your Home/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder to the Desktop.
launch iWeb, create a new test site, save the new domain file and close iWeb.
go to the your Home/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder and delete the new domain file.
move your original domain file from the Desktop to the iWeb folder.
launch iWeb and try again.
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Publishing another website

hi-
i have used iWeb to create my first website, which i'm publishing through .mac. everything's working fine, nothing to report.
i'd like however to publish another website, not related to first and was wondering why it's not working... i've created the second website and whenever i hit 'publish' nothing seems to happen. it looks like it's not published anywhere. when i select to 'visit the site', i'm taken to my first site.
are we only allowed 1 site per .mac account? is this why my second account is not being published?
HELP!
thanks!!
macbook Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Try clearing Safari's caches (CommandOptionE) and try again.
I use iWebSites to manage multiple sites.. It lets me create multiple sites and multiple domain files.
If you have multiple sites in one domain file here's the workflow I used to split them into individual site files with iWebSites. Be sure to make a backup copy of your Domain.sites files before starting the splitting process.
This lets me edit several sites and only republish the one I want.
I found that this method greatly increases my productivity as far as managing multiple sites.
Do you Twango?

Can't publish my website to a folder since I upgraded to Mountain Lion

I canot publish my website to a folder since I upgraded to Mountain Lion. It starts to upload and then quits. What can I do to publish my website? I use iweb.
Angie

Try the troubleshooting steps under "Fix iWeb" here...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/iWeb-Tips.html

TS2167 I am running OS X 10.8.2 and IWeb 3.0.4 (601) and everytime I try to publish my website I get an unexpected error and it does not publish my changes. My website is pretty simple, mostly made up of iPhoto albums in different categories.

I am running OS X 10.8.2 and IWeb 3.0.4 (601) and everytime I try to publish my website I get an unexpected error and it does not publish my changes. My website is pretty simple, mostly made up of iPhoto albums in different categories.

Where are you publishing to? Can you publish successfully to a folder on your hard drive? Have you read this webpage: Publish iWeb site using FTP. It may have a clue to where the problem is.
A quick troubleshooting fix is
Try the following:
1 - delete the iWeb preference file, com.apple.iWeb.plist, that resides in your
User/Home/Library/ Preferences folder.
2 - delete iWeb's cache file, Cache.db, that is located in your
User/Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.iWeb folder (Snow Leopard and Earlier).
3 - launch iWeb and try again.
NOTE: In Lion and Mountain 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.
However, when you delete the preference file you probably will have to use the app described below to select and open your domain file with iWeb:
In Lion and Mountain Lion the Home/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.
To open your domain file in Lion or Mountain Lion or to switch between multiple domain files Cyclosaurus has provided us with the following script that you can make into an Applescript application with Script Editor. Open Script Editor, copy and paste the script below into Script Editor's window and save as an application.
do shell script "/usr/bin/defaults write com.apple.iWeb iWebDefaultsDocumentPath -boolean no"delay 1
tell application "iWeb" to activate
You can download an already compiled version with this link: iWeb Switch Domain.
Just launch the application, find and select the domain file in your Home/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder that you want to open and it will open with iWeb. It modifies the iWeb preference file each time it's launched so one can switch between domain files.
WARNING: iWeb Switch Domain will overwrite an existing Domain.sites2 file if you select to create a new domain in the same folder. So rename your domain files once they've been created to something other than the default name.
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HT204053 I had Snow Leopard and was using iWeb and Filezilla for my website (not MobileMe). Wanting to move to single-click publishing, I now find it is not supported by iCloud and Mountain Lion. I feel cheated, having bought it mainly for this purpose!

I had Snow Leopard and was using iWeb and Filezilla for my website (not MobileMe). Wanting to move to single-click publishing (supported by MobileMe), I now find it is not supported by iCloud and Mountain Lion. I feel cheated, having bought it mainly for this purpose! The other thing they don't tell you is that Mountain Lion disables OfficeMac, and I am considering uninstalling it for that reason - do I get my money back?!

You stated; "Mountain Lion disables OfficeMac"
That is not true.
Mountain Lion does not have Rosetta so it is not capable of executing PowerPC code. If you have MS Office 2004 that is coded in PowerPC code and will not run in Mountain Lion. What you need to do is upgrade to an Intel version of Office.
Allan

IWeb won't publish my website

Hi, very frustrated. Have spent two days designing my iWeb website, then when I finally click the 'Publish' icon, I get "Preparing to Publish..."
Then...
"An error occurred while publishing file “/Web/Sites/iWeb/Site”."
GREAT. But iWeb won't tell me WHAT the error is, or what I need to do to try and FIX the problem! And I thought Apple and the iWeb software were supposedly so intuitive, easy and hassle-free...
Any ideas appreciated. Many, many thanks.
Frustrated in London
G4 867 Dual processor Silver Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Thanks for the quick response. I've read Heaton's
suggestions and tried publishing to a folder. Worked
fine. Does this mean the fault lies with .Mac, or
me/my Mac?
Adrian...
This is good news. The fact that you can publish to a folder means that iWeb is not encountering any troubles with your website... The error message that it is generating just lets you know where iWeb is encountering it's "internal error"...not indicating that there is a problem with that particular page, etc.
What you have to understand is that iWeb is a pretty "dumb" program. I mean, it's great...it lets you design pretty fantastic pages and all, but when it uploads to .Mac it is sort of at the mercy of the traffic on the Internet as a whole. And there is probably some programming in iWeb that says, okay, after you send a file to .Mac, this is how long you should wait for the confirmation. If network conditions are slower or fluctuating, that confirmation may not get to iWeb in a timely manner and iWeb reports out this error message....which is basically a timeout message. iWeb has to draw the line somewhere, I guess.
The best advice that I can give to you then is to keep trying....different times of the day, different internet connections, wired connections instead of wireless connections, etc.

Published Site Does Not Match Design File

I've published a website but it does not match the design file. It's showing an older version that has since been changed and not sure why it's picking up something I've updated and saved over many times. Thanks for any and all help.

And now I'm seeing a problem of a similar nature. The design and preview show a smooth transition between all pages, but the published site shows the logo in the upper left "jumping" when I leave the home page. I've checked the page properties between all of the pages and they seem to be set the same. I am using only one master page for all of the pages. Any ideas on why this would be occurring? The website is jacksoncompany.net.

I published a website using iWeb. I began using iWeb to create a second site and now I can't find my original site's work on my Mac.

I published a website using iWeb. I began using iWeb to create a second site and now I can't find my original site's work on my Mac.

If you're publishing directly from iWeb 3 to your FTP server then you'll have the following in your accounts root directory:
Site 1 folder
Site 2 folder
Site 3 folder
index.html file from last published site directling to the last published site.
If you want to keep Site 1 as the primary site you'll need to publish it one more time to the server so you get it's index.html file uploaded.
Now you'll have to publish Sites 2 and 3 to a folder on the hard drive and use a 3rd party FTP client like Cyberduck, YummyLite or Transmit to upload only the site folder (and not its external index.html file with it).
The url to sites 2 and 3 will be:
http://doman_name.com/Site 2
http://doman_name.com/Site 3
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IWeb published site different than designed

I scrolled through numerous pages and was surprised I did not see this problem already described.
I design a simple (though long) page using iWeb. Text and images only. The images are embedded, but non are overlapping. It looks great as I am working on it in the iWeb window. I publish it to a folder on my laptop then view either by using "visit published site" or going to the directory and firing up the index.html. There are lots of problems - images have been moved, fonts are wrong (there looks to be a "format persistence" problem -- a type or size will continue for a few extra words. I edit, making sure the fonts are the ones I want and re-publish with the same poor results. Not very WYSIWYG at all! I'd try to edit the html code, taking the iWeb written stuff as a pretty good start, but it is not very pretty html.
So, at this point iWeb is a completely useless program! As many others are using it without this problem, there must be some solution. Anyone had this issue and found a way to fix it?
thanks

What is the web address of the published site so we can see what you are referring to?
While waiting for that:
A common reason why formatting on a published page will not match what you see in iWeb is that objects (pictures, movies, text boxes, etc.) are overlapping. When the web browser goes to try and interpret that overlap the results can vary (this can effect the display of fonts as well).
Go to the page in question in iWeb and click on 1 object. Go to Edit > Select All.
You will see all the objects on the page with their boundaries activated. Move any items that are overlapping so they have their own space around them.

Published content is different than what was designed in iWeb

I have saved some changes to my web site and now the published site shows pictures rearranged, dupicate pictures, and a picture where there should be text. the published site is www.gregoryzsmith.com and the page that is having problems is the Issues page. The screen shot attached is what has been designed in iWeb. I do not understand what happened here and cannot seem to get this straigntened out. Any assistance would be appreciated.
AKS

It seems to have worked itself out. Must have been a problem with the server. Thank you for your response.
Allison

New site not publishing. 2 separate MobileMe accounts, iweb sites involved

*April '09 I purchase Mobile Me for use to develop a website for a friend.* I use his email, but my credit card to make the purchase, and set up the website from iweb on my macbook.
http://web.me.com/samaniegosinclair/hector/AbouttheArtist
*A month ago I purchase an iphone and buy mobileme for my own personal use (with same credit card from first mobileme).* I set it up on my macbook and sign into mobileme from system prefs with my new username and password. Then I open iweb because I want to create a website for my own use.
*The friends website draft loads in iweb. How is this possible if I am opening iweb with a totally different account?*
*I try to create a new site, my own site (so it shows up second in the index to the left), and then publish.* It's been over 30 minutes, but all text on left side index is still red (not blue which indicates published status, right?), but there's a filled-in white circle next to the title of my site (doesn't that mean it's finished uploading?)
*Then I decide to search for my site.* According to the help file it should be http://web.me.com/[YourMemberName] for the first site. Well this is my first site on this account, but not the first site I've created using iweb (hence why the friend's site shows up first?).
*So I type in http://web.me.com/margie.hatch (margie.hatch being my username) hit the return key and this shows up: http://web.me.com/margie.hatch/hector/AbouttheArtist.html. WHAT? How'd that happen?*
Where do I even start to sort this out and get my new site published? Must I terminate the first mobile me account?

The friends website draft loads in iweb. How is this possible if I am opening iWeb with a totally different account?
You're not opening iWeb with a toally different account. iWeb opens a file on your computer :
~/Library/Application Support/iWeb/domain.sites2
iWeb publishes to the MobileMe account you entered in the System Prefs.
The purchase of an iPhone has nothing to do with it.

I have been unable to publish my website due to this message "iweb quit unexpectedly - the problem may have been caused by FTP plug-in" - Iweb seems to register all pages, then crashes before publishing.Tried quite few thread trouble shoots, no luck.Help?

I have mac book pro 10.5 Leopard
Have just started using iweb and have small site of about 5 pages, plus blog. I have yet been able to publish, each time I try iweb crashes and receive following note -
The application iweb quite unexpectedly. The problem may have been caused by the FTPKit Plug-in.
I have tried a few troubleshooting methods recomended on other threads, ie. deleting caches, copying domain and reboots... but no luck.
Any help very much appreciated.

Reinstall iWeb from the source you got it from originallhy. Or, if you're running iWeb 3 download and apply or reapply the iWeb 3.0.4 updater. It included that plugin.
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