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About publishing websites

Websites you create in iWeb aren’t visible on the Internet until you publish them.

There are two easy ways to publish your sites using iWeb:

  • If you have a MobileMe subscription (including a free 60-day trial subscription), you can publish a site to MobileMe. (Any website you publish using a trial subscription is available on the Internet until the trial period ends.)

    iWeb generates a web address (URL) for you—http://web.me.com/[YourMemberName] for your first site—or you can use your own domain name.

  • You can publish your site to a third-party hosting service using the FTP (file transfer protocol) publishing capability built into iWeb. If you don’t have a MobileMe subscription and don’t want one, you must choose this option to publish your site. Or you can use this option even if you do have a MobileMe subscription.

You can also 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. See Related Topics below for more information.

If you have more than one website, you publish each one separately, to whichever host you want. This means you can publish some sites to MobileMe and others to a different hosting service using FTP. There are no restrictions.

In most cases, when you make changes to a site in iWeb, you must republish the site for those changes to take effect online. When you republish, you can choose to republish just the pages you changed or your entire site. Publishing just the modified pages is faster than publishing your entire site. However, you’ll need to republish your whole site to fix problems with your site’s navigation menu, for example. When you publish an existing site using a new MobileMe account, the entire site is published.


Related Topics

Publishing using FTP

Publishing to MobileMe

Publishing to a folder

Republishing a website

Using your own domain name

Testing a website before publishing it

If you have problems publishing to MobileMe

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