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Using your own domain name

If you purchased your own domain name (for example, www.yourname.com) from a service provider, you can use that web address (URL) for a website you create with iWeb and publish to MobileMe. You can also use someone else’s domain name, if you have permission to do so. For example, you might want to use iWeb to publish a site using your company’s domain name.

Note:If you publish your website to another hosting service using the FTP (file transfer protocol) publishing capability built into iWeb, you must use your own domain name.

To use your own domain name for a site published to MobileMe:

  1. In iWeb, choose File > Set Up Personal Domain.

    If you’re connected to the Internet, the MobileMe website opens in your web browser.

  2. If you’re not logged in to MobileMe, log in. You are taken to the Account page.

    If you’re logged in, verify your account password.

  3. Click Personal Domain in the sidebar on the left of the iWeb window, and then follow the onscreen instructions.

  4. After you set up your personal domain, you need to republish your website to update the URL.

The domain name becomes the URL for your website’s homepage. For example, if your personal domain is “yourname,” your site’s URL becomes http://www.yourname.com. Other pages in your site will have URLs that follow this convention: http//yourname/Site_Name/Page_Name.html.

The site name is the name you gave your site in iWeb, and the page name is the name of the page in iWeb. Spaces in your site name or page names appear as underscores in the URL. Capitalization remains as it’s seen in iWeb.

It can take up to a few days for your URL to be updated on the Internet. If you open iWeb after the URL has been updated, your domain appears in the Site Publishing Settings window.


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Publishing to MobileMe

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