IWeb

So far, Apple hasn't removed the "publish to folder" option from iWeb, so for anyone who is familiar with iWeb, but not wanting to use a Mobile Me account with Apple, here is how to upload your site to our servers.

iWeb '09 (3.0.1)
After building your site, at the top left of the main window, you'll see the name you gave to your site as a menu item with a red cloud icon:



Click this, and the publishing settings will open up. By default this is set to 'Mobile Me'. Select 'FTP Server' from the drop down menu instead:



From there, enter your domain name as your server address (note: the domain name may not work as your server address if you have a custom DNS setup. In this case, you will want to use the servername found in the 'Account Status' section of your web panel). Your username and password should be the ftp username/password for that domain. The directory/path is the name of the web directory you set up for your domain when you created hosting for it.

Keep the port set to 21 and leave your Protocol set to regular old FTP unless you have enabled your user for SFTP access.



You can then test your connection if you like. Once all this is set, click the green 'Publish Site' button at the bottom left. You'll receive a few messages telling you not to close the program while it is uploading. After it's all done, you should see a success message pop up. To check the site in your default browser, click 'Visit Site Now' and you should be on your way!



iWeb '08 (2.0.2)
1. Create your site. 2. Save your site:  By default, Dreamhost names the domain directory for your site with the site's name (yourdomain.com).   It can be easier to track if the folder on your computer has the same name as the folder in your FTP space. 

3. Upload site to server. I used CyberDuck as the FTP program because it is free and fairly easy to use, but you can use any FTP program you like. Fill in your server settings -- FTP server (usually your domain name), FTP username and FTP password.  What you see in the image above is what is called the "root directory" of your FTP user. To make sure you are uploading your files into the right folder, double-click on the yourdomain.com directory to open it. To upload your site to FTP, select "Upload" in your FTP program, and find the "Sites" folder on your hard drive. (It is usually just inside your "home" folder.) Click on "Sites" and then "yourdomain.com", and then the "Sites" folder inside of "yourdomain.com".

 Hold down the shift button and click first the top and then the bottom of the files in the "Sites" folder. Then click on "Upload" to upload those files.

<BR><BR> If all has gone well, you have uploaded all the files for your site inside your domain directory!