A website you create in iWeb isn’t available on the Internet until you publish it.
To publish your site to MobileMe, you must have a MobileMe subscription, or a free trial subscription. You can sign up for a free 60-day trial subscription on the MobileMe website:
The web address (URL) for the first site you publish (or the first one listed in the sidebar on the left of the iWeb window) is as follows. Don’t type the brackets:
http://web.me.com/[YourMemberName]
Additional published sites have this URL:
http://web.me.com/[YourMemberName]/[SiteName]
You can provide your own URL instead. See Related Topics below for more information.
In most cases, when you make changes in iWeb to a website that is already published, you need to republish the site for those changes to take effect online. See Related Topics below for information about republishing websites.
Select the site by clicking its name in the sidebar on the left of the iWeb window.
The Site Publishing Settings window appears.
Choose MobileMe from the “Publish to” pop-up menu.
Type a site name if you want.
If you don’t provide a name, iWeb creates one (for example, Site 2, Site 3, and so on). The website name is used in the site’s web address, if the site is not the first one you’ve published.
Provide a contact email if you want.
If you have an Email Me button on your website, the address you provide here receives those messages.
If you want to password-protect your website, select “Make my published site private,” and then type a user name and password.
To update your Facebook profile whenever you publish your site, select “Update my Facebook profile when I publish this site.”
You must have a Facebook account for this to work.
Click the Publish Site button in the toolbar at the bottom of the iWeb window.
Depending on how large your site is, it can take up to several minutes to publish. When it’s published, you can visit the site on the Internet or send an email announcing the site to friends and family.
In the iWeb sidebar, sites and webpages that have been published are blue; unpublished sites and pages are red. When you make changes to a webpage in a published site, the page turns red, indicating the site needs to be republished for the changes to take effect online.
Note:You can publish a website to MobileMe the first time by simply clicking the Publish Site button, without opening the Site Publishing Settings window first. iWeb assigns a site name and URL.