Publishing using iWeb

When I was looking for ways to publish site created in iWeb, I learned of applications such as Fetch, Cyberduck, and Transmit. Without .Mac or MobileMe, I thought I needed to publish to a folder on the desktop and use those applications to publish to a server.
However, I think this works too. I am not exactly sure if this was mentioned somewhere else but I am going to post it anyway. It might only work with some servers.
1. Open Finders
2. On Finders menu: Go > Connect to Server or Command + K
3. Insert server address and connect
4. Open iWeb
5. On iWeb menu: File > Publish to a Folder
6. Choose the web folder in the server
7. Enter your URL
8. Publish

It's not the same?
You publish to a server, regardless what or where it is. The OP has a useraccount on that server.
To connect to that account he uses smb://. I don't know if it works over the internet or that it is local only. I use it to connect to a PC in VirtualBox.
The account mounts as a folder on the desktop.
Similar to mounting your iDisk and publish to a folder.
So the OP is publishing directly to the server.
That's it. A folder on the desktop. Publish to that folder.
If you really do have external server space, you would have had to purchase both a domain name and hosting space and you would then have to publish from iWeb to a folder and then upload using either Cyberduck or Transmit as I have stated previously.
This is irrelevant info. Also, no one has the obligation to buy a domainname.
But then, I have a domainname and publish to a folder on my computer, which happen to be the Sites folder in my Home directory. I also publish to /Library/Webserver/Documents/ and to /Web/Internet/ which contains folders I use with several subdomain.
Frankly, I think I'm rather knowledgeable.
But then, I could be wrong.

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Publish using iWeb 09 using any WebDAV compliant web development software

Our School is looking at moving to the Mac Platform. We currently use Frontpage to publish our website. Our current web host says that we can use "any WebDAV compliant web development software to publish our site. Is there a way to do this using iWeb 09?

Inigo wrote:
...is it simply a case of dragging a QT movie file into iWeb 09, publish it via FTP, and hey presto, people can view my films in high quality on the web? Is it really that simple or is there a catch?
George ~ Yes, there's a catch. Your videos will become part of iWeb's Domain file which may make it slow to open in iWeb, make backups and re-publish everything (if needed). Better to upload your videos separately to your server and embed them into your iWeb site.
iWeb '09 makes this easy if you upload your videos to YouTube: iWeb '09 has a new YouTube widget to embed your videos into your iWeb page:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/iweb/#widgets
...For high definition video, YouTube was recently ranked the best of several video sites:
Which HD video Web service is the best?
See also this article:
YouTube officially enables HQ in embedded videos
Also, I may want to show some videos encoded with Flash, not QT. Is that still possible using iWeb 09?
If you're concerned that some PC users won't have QT and won't want to install it, I think if you go the embedded YouTube route, almost all PC or Mac users will be able to view your videos — because "videos on YouTube are streamed through an Adobe Flash player."
If you'd prefer to use Flash in iWeb, this article may help:
http://web.mac.com/catucker/InsideOutside/Flash.html

After publishing (using iWeb) content looks fine, but pagenames don't show!

Pagenames/buttons like Home, Contact and all are not visible when opening site from server (see www.unitedsigns.nl). On my mac everything is fine. I published it to a usb-stick, and fine too. But on a windows laptop it is not.
I've done it many times before (see www.unitedtextile.nl) (and see buttons on top) and never had such problems. Did not get help from provider.
Somebody help me out, please!

The reason that the navbar for your www.unitedsigns.nl site isn't being display is because not all of the necessary file are getting uploaded to the server. Open the Activity window (CommandOptionA) for that site (in Safari) you'll see that a number of files in the Scripts folder are missing.
How are you uploading the files to the server? If it's with iWeb's built in FTP client try the following:
1- publish you site to a folder on your HD.
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2 - download and use Cyberduck to upload the site folder to the server.
To fix just his problem at this time you can use Cyberduck to upload just the Scripts folder for the site. If you have problems with uploading from iWeb at a later date then you can use CD routinely to upload the site's files as described in the tutorial.
More on this can be found in this tutorial: #2 - Uploading only those published new or newly edited files when using a 3rd party FTP client.
Many users have found switching to Cyberduck fixed their uploading problem. Worth a try.
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How many websites can I publish using iWeb?

There must be a limit? How can I find out how much of my allocation I'm using?

I use iWebSites to manage over 75 individual 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 original Domain.sites files before starting the splitting process and move it to another location on your HD until you're satisfied the separation process is completed and what you want.
This lets me edit several sites and only republish the one I want.
If you don't use domain names for each of your sites you must remember that the last published site (when using separate domain files for each site) will be the default site when using the default URL for you MMe account: http://web.me.com/YourMMeAccount/.
The specific URL to each of your sites would be http://web.me.com/YourMMe_Account/SiteName.
If you purchase a domain name(s) you can have only one site forwarded to using the CNAME method. The others will require the standard URL forwarding and you can have as many as you've purchased.
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How can I Publish to a Folder just one of the several websites I have created using iWeb?

How can I Publish to a Folder just one of the several websites I have created using iWeb?
it drives me nuts having to emove all the other websites when I want to upload one.
Sparrow

For iWeb, I like to do only one site per domain file. I move domain files out of the Application Support folder and place them inside project or client folders, or in DropBox. Once you duplicate a domain file and begin customizing it, it will load and behave as a separate project/site.
I publish each iWeb domain/project direct to a server via FTP. Sometime I publish to a folder, then upload via FTP manually.
iWeb is a remarkable tool, especially when you work from scratch with blank tamplates
Here are a few of my iWeb sites:
http://www.newcovenant.org
http://www.visionmultimedia.org
http://www.visioncomsolutions.com

Error Publishing Podcast to ITunes using IWeb

I am getting the following error publishing my podcast to Itunes using Iweb.
We had difficulty reading this feed. Bad http result code: 500
When I checked the rss.xml doc that iweb generates, it is very different from what itunes gives as an example. Do you guys plan on making your software match to the Itunes requirements so that it will post. I can edit and upload the xml file, but when iweb publishes again it will simply change it back to the wrong file.
Is there an update coming? What should I do?

Thanks for the suggestion. It seems that from GarageBand the only podcast option is to send it to iWeb. The option exists: "send song" to iTunes, but not "send podcast" directly to iTunes. I don't know if there's a meaningful difference between "song" and "podcast," but I've decided to wait.
I contacted Apple (apparently I haven't yet exhausted my free tech-support options since the purchase of this MacBookPro) and was told that the problem is most likely with iTunes. We'll see what the iTunes team has to say...
Further info I've learned: the audio podcast episode somehow got converted to a ".mov" file somewhere along it's path from being created in GarageBand to it's submission to iTunes. This is still a mystery to me as I specifically chose "MP3" when sending the episode from GarageBand to iWeb. Apple tech-support has passed me along the chain to the iTunes folks who only do tech support via email. So we'll see...

Can I make another website using iWeb,then publish it to a different server through the SMTP panel on iWeb

Can I make another website using iWeb, and then publish it to a different server through the SMTP panel on iWeb, even though I have a website published on mobile me, can I just use the SMTP engine to publish a different site but to a different server, that's the question I'm asking. I'm hoping for a quick reply. Thank you for your time in reading this.

Yes. You can do it one of two ways:
1 - select FTP Server in the Publish To menu (click on the site folder to get to the options) and enter the FTP address, username and password and publish as you would if using MMe.
2 - select Publish to Folder and publish. Use a 3rd party FTP client like Cyberduck to upload the site files to there server using the FTP address, etc.
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HT4686 How can I publish my website developed using iWeb and have all functions of the blog page work as it did with MobileMe?

I have developed a website using iWeb and it includes a blog page selected from stock pages in iWeb. I'm publishing it with GoDaddy and when I do that the interactive functions of the blog page don't work. (Adding comments and photos as well as searching). Is there any simple way to host this site somewhere so that those functions work?

No, because all those functions were MobileMe only and now that MobileMe has gone, they won't function any longer.
To enable these to function, you either need to add them yourself or change your blogging platform to something else such as WordPress etc., and create a link from iWeb to your WordPress blog or embed the blog page using iframe into your iWeb site.
Commenting systems such as Disqus or http://www.intensedebate.com work quite well.

How can I publish my iweb site using Jumpline as a host? Anyone done it?

My dad has a hosting account with Jumpline and can have an infinite amount of websites with unlimited storage (type of account is no long available fyi), so we have it set up on his end (thanks to help from a true IT guy, but he is a PC IT guy) but now I need to know what to do to publish the site from the iweb end... I am not familiar with ftp or much of anything with hosting and servers, etc. I have the user information, password and a location of where the website is set up at on the Jumpline server but again just not sure how to go about this in iweb. Any help would be appreciated!! I am using iweb v. 3.0.4

Nevermind!! I didn't realize I could use the FTP option for this server - it's publishing right now!

Using Iweb to publish a Company Site need help!!!!!!!!!!!

I have been trying to build a new website for a newly
formed company of mine
http://3rdcoastdistribution.com/
and have been trying to use iweb to
make the site crisper, but I can not add the features
I would like to ie an info request form like at the
bottom of this page
http://3rdcoastdistribution.com/prod03.htm
i was hoping you migt have some advice
also i cannot figure out how to make a photo gallery
in lue of a photo page with a mess of un grouped
photos.
I understand iweb was made for "personal" pages but if
you know of any way around it or another template
based web design software short of dreamweaver please
let know.
also is it possible to publish a page other than .mac?
Thank You,
Jason Schanzer

but I can not add the features I would like to ie an info request form
http://www.varkgirl.com/Varkgirl/Add%20forms.html
+Disclaimer: My website contains various ads, so if you click them while visiting my site, I will receive financial compensation, which I use for materials for my classroom.+
also i cannot figure out how to make a photo gallery in lue of a photo page with a mess of un grouped photos.
http://www.mac.com/web/en/Tips/013C4180-4787-4847-BAAB-319222AFC652.html
also is it possible to publish a page other than .mac?
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/iwebserver.html

PLEASE HELP!! I've used iWeb to create multiple sites, all published to third party servers. The very last site I made changes to is showing up in any domain file I open - despite their different names and locations on my iMac. I just switched to Lion.

Please HELP!! I just switched to Lion. I have created multiple websites using iWeb 3.0.4 and despite my having saved their 'domain' files in various locations and using different filenames, upon opening the domain files I keep getting the very last site I published. All the sites were published to third party servers. The domain files (still have a preview that look correct and have different file sizes) but keep going back to the last site published. HELP ME PLEASE!! Are the old files still available?!!

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.
To open your domain file in 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 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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I'm using a Mac. After swithcing to ICloud will I be able to use IWeb to upload and publish my sites hosted by other servers like Prohosting ?

I'm using a Mac. After swithcing to ICloud will I be able to use IWeb to upload and publish my sites hosted by other servers like Prohosting ?

iWeb has two other ways to publish your site...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/Publish-Website.html
... and the second method allows you a choice of how you upload the files...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/URLs-Favicons.html
Here's a publishing workflow checklist...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Search-Engine-Optimization/Website-Publishing-Wo rkflow.html
The MobileMe only features can be replaced by alternatives...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/Comments-Password-Protect.html
If you have folders of assets outside of the main website folder on MobileMe, download them from the Apple server. From the Finder Go menu, follow the path iDisk/My iDisk/ to get there. Your website files are in the Web/Sites folder. Drag any files/folders onto the desktop.
Use an FTP application to upload these assets to the root folder on your new server...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Search-Engine-Optimization/Upload.html
...and change the relevant URLs to...
http://www.domain-name.com/Folder-Name/file-name.file-extension
There are lots of options for hosting for about half the cost of MobileMe...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/Website-Hosting.html
If you have been using a web.me.com domain name, you need to register a new one. Most hosting services give you at least one free and registering with your hosting company will make forwarding and managing it a lot easier.
Make sure you add the new name to Google and create, upload and enter a new sitemap.xml...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Search-Engine-Optimization/SEO.html
If you have inbound links on other sites...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Search-Engine-Optimization/Inbound-Link.html
... remember to inform the webmasters of you new URL.
"I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link."

I tried to implement photo albums using iweb and got a publishing error.

I tried to implement photo albums using iweb and got a publishing error. All was fine with my site until I added the photo album page. The software doesnt say what the error is exactly, only that it is a publishing error to my ftp
Exact message "There was an error communicating with the FTP server. Try again later, or check with your service provider."
If I reduce the albums inside to 1 then it seems to work but that takes away from the usefullness of multiple albums.
my iWeb version is 3.0.4 (601)

Publish your site to a folder on your hard drive to see if the publication will proceed successfully and open the site locally with your browser to confirm all of the alums are there and work. If they do try 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.
If you're still not able to publish from iWeb to your server download and use the free Cyberduck to upload your website files to the server. Users have found that CD has been successful when iWeb had problems.
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Using iWeb to publish to two sites separately

Here's my situation: I purchased a Family Pack .mac so I get 5 sites. I will use one for my own use, my wife will use one, and my son will use one.
We would like to use one of the two remaining accounts primarily to put up a website for a friend of ours who is working as a missionary in Africa.
So on my wife's computer, we want to use iWeb to build two sites, publish one in one .mac account and publish the other in another .mac account.
So far iWeb keeps publishing them in the same account.
Any ideas?

The easiest thing for you to do would be to create a separate account on your wife's computer for this additional .Mac account that you wish to publish to. You can add this System account under System Preferences>Accounts. Then log into this account and add the additional .Mac information into the System Preferences there. Launch iWeb and create your page. When you publish, it will be published using the extra .Mac account.
This way...no juggling of Domain files. No switching back and forth of .Mac account information. Just log into the separate account to edit and publish this separate website on this .Mac account. Then your wife can log back into her own account to edit her own websites. Easy.

Using iWeb to publish to existing domain

I have a domain which is being hosted by an individual. I want to take over the management of it, so I am redesigning it using iWeb. I don't want to publish it to my .mac; I want it to be published at my current domain. (I hope I am articulating this correctly, since I am still pretty green with a lot of the lingo.)
I tried doing this using Transmit. I'm having problems. Does anyone know how to do what I am attempting to do? Thanks so much to anyone who can educate me.
PowerPC G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)
PowerPC G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Well first off you need to publish your site to a folder from iweb. Go to file and publish to a folder. This will give you an index.html and folder. Upload both of these to your webspace via transmit. In transmit there are two windows left is your stuff and right is their stuff. Locate you index and folder in the your stuff window. Once you sign in to your host space and connect, simply drag the index.html and the folder over to their space. Depending on how big the site is it may take a minute. And when it stops and goes back to idle your done. I just started using transmit, but I have 3 sites up with no problems. Post back if you need further help. Good luck

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