Updating and publishing select pages.

Question

Dear members:
It is often the case that when updating a web site only a few pages get updated while most others remain the same. The publish command in iWeb only seems to publish everything without giving the option to select specific sites and/or specific pages - it's a all or none type of situation.
Is this really the case or am I missing something obvious ?
Is there an option that would allow only one or certain specific pages to be published ?
Thank you in advance,
Joseph Chamberlain

Answer 1

You have described iWeb's behavior exactly, I'm afraid.
Regarding a single site within iWeb....there is no way to publish select pages. For one thing, changing one page may affect many other pages unexpectedly and iWeb needs to go through the entire site in order to catch all of these things. It does calculate through every page, but when it comes to uploading (the pie chart progress bar time) only the actual updated pages will be uploaded.
Regarding multiple sites in the same instance of iWeb... there is also no way to publish a site independently of the others if you have multiple sites saved within the same instance of iWeb. In this case, they would be saved in the same Domain file. In order to overcome this inconvenience, you would need to split your sites into separate Domain files and then use each Domain file to edit/publish each respective site.
Apnewbie has written a tutorial on doing this. And there are also programs like iWebSites that will help you organize and manage multiple sites/Domain files...
Mark Heaton's (Apnewbie) tutorial on separating sites into multiple Domain files
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