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Publishing to a folder

You can publish a website to a folder on your computer, which is useful if you have a local web server or your computer has web sharing on. (For more information, go to Mac Help and search for “sharing a website.”)

To publish a website to a folder:

  1. Select the site you want to publish by clicking its name in the sidebar on the left of the iWeb window.

  2. In the Site Publishing Settings window appears, choose Local Folder from the “Publish to” pop-up menu.

  3. Provide a site name and contact email address if you want. 
If you have an Email Me button on your website, the address you provide here receives those messages.

  4. Click the Choose button in the Folder Location section of the window.

  5. In the window that appears, select a folder in which to store the site (somewhere on your computer or an external hard disk), and then click Choose.

  6. Provide your site’s URL, if you know what it is.

    If you don’t provide the URL, then certain features of the site, such as RSS feeds and some links, won’t work.

  7. Click the Publish Site button in the toolbar at the bottom of the iWeb window.

  8. When you see the confirmation message, click Visit Site Now.

  9. Note:Some features of your website won’t work until you publish it to the Internet.

If you want to visit the site later, select the site in the sidebar, and then click the Visit button in the toolbar.

If you make changes to your website in iWeb and want to update the version you have already published to a folder, select the any page of the site in the sidebar, and then click the Publish Site button.


Related Topics

About publishing websites

Publishing to MobileMe

Publishing using FTP

Republishing a website

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