Chapter 19: Publishing a Web Site

Test Your Web Pages

You activate the hyperlinks in your pages to ensure that they work before publishing your site and making it public. You can also view your pages in iWeb to ensure that they appear as you want them to appear.

Test Your Web Pages

View the Web page you want to test.

Click Inspector.

The Inspector window appears.

Click the Link Inspector icon ().

Click Hyperlink.

iWeb lists the hyperlink settings.

Click Make hyperlinks active ( changes to ).

iWeb activates the hyperlinks on your pages.

Note: To create a hyperlink, see Chapter 17.

Click a hyperlink on your Web page ( changes to ).

• iWeb opens the destination page.

In this example, the destination is another page in the Web site.

How can I test hyperlinks to external pages?

If you activate hyperlinks for your site and have an Internet connection, you can test links to pages on other sites.

Complete steps 1 to 5 above to turn on hyperlinks.

Click a hyperlink to an external page.

• The external page opens in a new window in your Web browser.

If you do not have an active Internet connection, a browser window opens but it does not display the page.

Publish a Site Using FTP

If you have a Web host, you can transfer your iWeb pages to a Web server at the host using FTP, which stands for File Transfer Protocol. After your pages are transferred, people can view them on the Web. To make the transfer, you need to obtain the server login information.

Publish a Site Using FTP

Click the site you want to publish.

iWeb displays the publishing settings.

Select FTP Server.

Type a contact e-mail address.

Note: The address is used for any Email Me buttons on your site pages. See Chapter 18 for details.

Type the server address at your Web host.

Type your user name.

Type your password.

• If necessary, type the path to the directory where your Web content is stored on the server.

• Select from this menu if your server requires FTP with extra security features.

Check with your Web host for the server, user name, password, and other settings to use.

• Click Test Connection to test the login settings.

Type the root Web address of your site, which is typically the address for your home page.

iWeb needs this to build certain types of links as well as any RSS feeds on your site.

Note: See Chapter 18 for more about RSS.

Click Publish Site.

If iWeb displays a dialog about content rights, click OK.

If iWeb displays a dialog about publishing in the background, click OK.

iWeb uploads the Web site. How long it takes depends on the amount of site content. iWeb displays a confirmation when the upload is complete.

Click Visit Site Now to visit your site in a Web browser.

• You can also click Visit to visit a published site.

How can I republish my entire site to my Web server in iWeb?

If you remove site files from your Web server, for example using an FTP client program, you must republish your site for it to function properly.

Click your site in the sidebar.

Click File.

Click Publish Entire Site, and iWeb uploads all of the site files.

Note: Clicking Publish Site at the bottom of the workspace as in step 8 uploads only content that iWeb sees as changed since the previous upload.

Publish a Site to MobileMe

You can publish a Web site to your MobileMe account to make your content available online. You can then send your friends and family a Web address where they can access the site on MobileMe.

To use this feature, you must have a MobileMe account. See Chapter 2 for details.

Publish a Site to MobileMe

Sign in to your MobileMe account.

Click the site you want to publish.

iWeb displays the publishing settings.

Select MobileMe.

Type a contact e-mail address for any Email Me buttons on your site pages. See Chapter 18 for details.

• Your MobileMe account user name appears here.

• You can click here to protect your site with a user name and password ( changes to ).

• If you protect your site, type a user name and password. Do not use your own MobileMe user name and password.

The password must be between 6 and 20 characters and is case-sensitive.

Click Publish Site.

If a Content Rights dialog appears, click Continue.

• iWeb publishes your site to your MobileMe account.

If a dialog appears telling you the site will be published in the background, click OK.

After the site is published, iWeb displays a confirmation dialog.

• Click Announce to announce the publication and invite others to view the site.

• Click Visit Site Now to view the site at your MobileMe account.

Click OK to close the dialog.

What Web address do I use to access my sites published to MobileMe?

You can use your MobileMe user name and site name to create the Web address for your site.

In the Web browser address box, type http://web.me.com.

Then type a / (forward slash) followed by your MobileMe user name.

Then type another / (forward slash) followed by the site name. Replace any spaces in the site name with _ (underscore) characters and remove any apostrophes.

Note: iWeb may convert or remove other nonalphanumeric characters in the site name as well. See the confirmation dialog that appears after publishing for the exact address.

Share Site Updates on Facebook

You can announce updates to your Web site on your Facebook account. iWeb makes the announcements every time you make changes to your site and publish them.

Facebook is a popular social networking Web site where users can connect with friends and share information. To share site updates on Facebook, you must already have a Facebook account.

Share Site Updates on Facebook

Specify your publishing settings for your FTP server or MobileMe account.

Note: For details about specifying settings, see the other tasks in this chapter.

This example shows the settings for publishing using an FTP server.

At the bottom of the publishing settings, click Update my Facebook profile when I update this site ( changes to ).

The Facebook window appears in iWeb.

Type the e-mail address associated with your Facebook account.

Note: To set up a Facebook account, visit www.facebook.com.

Type your password.

Click Login.

iWeb displays a confirmation page.

Click Finish.

iWeb updates your Facebook account when you update your site.

• You can click here to temporarily disable the updating ( changes to ).

• You can click Remove Account to remove the connection to your Facebook account. You can reestablish it later if you want.

I want to publish my site to a Web server on my local network or computer. How do I do this?

You can publish your site to a location on your computer or network just like you can to a server at a Web host. This is useful when you maintain your own Web server.

In the publishing settings, select Local Folder in the Publish To menu.

Click Choose to select the Web server folder on your computer or on your network.

Type your Web site URL.

Click Publish Site.

iWeb copies the site to the folder.