[Headshot]

I know dumb question. I'm probably looking everywhere except under my nose.
But, as I start to create these layouts and blogs, everytime I try to save my work, it seems like it's trying to railroad me into the .Mac thing. I have 20 gigs on my Doteasy acct, and my own domain.

So how can I go about publishing these easily on my FTP GoLive window for my server space?
Ideally I'd like it to become Schademann.us/blog

You don't have to use .Mac, right????

thanks!

[besson3c]

File -> Export, I believe... Been a while since I played with iWeb.

[TETENAL]

File->Publish to a Folder…

[Headshot]

OK, that kind of makes sense to me, what I'm not clear on is this:

Do I have to upload the entire blog every time I make an update or add an entry?
It would be WAY too convenient for me to have a nice feature in iWeb where you hit
PUBLISH and it could update your own server or space, based on settings and passwords you
entire, much like GoLive's FTP....

Too bad noone's written any extra add-ons for this app. That's the only thing that would make this
a dream.

[Macola]

iWeb creates an unnecessarily complex folder structure, so your best bet is to upload the entire thing each time. It's quicker than trying to locate individual files.

That's the advantage of using .Mac, and iWeb is clearly built for it.

[MarkLT1]

You may want to look into the new "MacFuse" (macfuse - Google Code) along with the sshfs or ftpfs (depending on if you use ftp or sftp to access your server). MacFuse lets you mount remote directories in such a way that they appear local to the OS/applications.

So, lets say you have ssh access to your remote web server. Install MacFuse and the sshfs plugin. Mount your remote directory via sshfs (it will mount to the finder's desktop), and now you can use iWeb to publish to that directory.

MacFuse is still a bit rough (currently you need to use the terminal, etc.. to mount a volume) but in the next few weeks I'm sure there will be GUI front ends to it.

[phobos]

You can also choose to synchronise your remote folder and the the one that iweb publishes your site. So every time a change occurs in the iweb folder the changes will happen on your remote folder as well.
I usually do that kind of thing through the ftp program I use. (In case you're wondering it's transmit))

[tom@bluesky.org]

Originally Posted by Headshot 

OK, that kind of makes sense to me, what I'm not clear on is this:

Too bad noone's written any extra add-ons for this app. That's the only thing that would make this
a dream.

All kinds of things have been done to make it more useful. Check out the Apple iWeb forum if you have specific questions:

Apple - Support - Discussions - iWeb

[Brass]

Originally Posted by Headshot 

OK, that kind of makes sense to me, what I'm not clear on is this:

Do I have to upload the entire blog every time I make an update or add an entry?
It would be WAY too convenient for me to have a nice feature in iWeb where you hit
PUBLISH and it could update your own server or space, based on settings and passwords you
entire, much like GoLive's FTP....

Too bad noone's written any extra add-ons for this app. That's the only thing that would make this
a dream.

Yes, it is a rather silly way that iWeb works.

But rather than uploading the entire site every time you make a small update, you can use tools such as "rsync" to only upload what's changed. rsync is a unix utility that is very clever about this.

I've acutally written a Cocoa application which uses rsync to upload my iWeb updates (called 'UpSync'), and it works very well. But it's just a simple matter of running a single rsync command, really.