Publishing my site Please help

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HI All I am trying to publish my site using my .mac account . so I went to droa had them point it to my site and remove my old site from a different host. But what i have is ( it is now going to my web site that i built on I web before i new about freeway. Now when you go to my site www.signaturemotorcars.com it goes to my iweb site which is out dated . I tried to call apple yesterday but they do not have any type of phone support for .mac . I really need to get this fixed fast because my customers cannot get to me otherwise any help would be great. Thanks Brian Gideon

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I’m a little confused as to what you’re saying.
Did you upload the freeway site to the “sites” area of the idisk?
You say you had your domain name re-directed by the host?
What’s droa, the host?

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What is your .mac url?
Did you put the freeway site in the “sites” folder?
What’s droa, the domain name host?
You say you had them re-direct the name?
To what address and how long ago?

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What I’d like to know is where is the long post I did earlier today which should have helped.

OK, I’ll try again.

Firstly, I am assuming that you are using Apple’s DNS service to hitch the www.signaturemotorcars.com domain name to your .Mac account - specifically your iWeb site.

iWeb publishes to a different folder on your iDisk to that accessible by Freeway. Sadly, you need to use an app which can access the correct folder. Do not use Finder. It can do this, BUT the transfer speeds are so slow, you’ll be waiting a long, long time.

Save yourself some stress and get a copy of Transmit from www.panic.com

1 - Start Transmit

2 - Click on the iDisk icon in the side bar

3 - Double Click the My iDisk icon in the main pane - this will open your iDisk in Transmit

4 - There will be a whole load of files & folders. Find a folder named Web and double click on that

5 - You will get another list of files and folders (probably quite short). Locate the folder named Sites and double click on that

6 >> This is your iWeb originated site. You can remove the files from here (select them all and click the wastebasket icon in the Transmit window).

7 - Locate your Site Folder in Finder and drag the files in that folder to the Transmit Window. Transmit will start uploading the files to your iDisk folder.

Now, next time you need to do this, you need only to use the Synchronise feature in Transmit which, like Freeway, will only upload those files you need. You can use Automator to create an app to do this for you. I use this method to maintain a site I own.

Be careful not to confuse the two Sites folders in your iDisk - the one you want is in the Web folder, not the one at the root of the iDisk.

As I said, Freeway can’t do this at the moment - it won’t access the Web folder either by FTP or through Finder. If you are running Mac OS X 10.4 or below, this folder will appear to be a regular folder if you are keeping a synchronised local copy of the iDisk. However, drag a file in there and it will not be synced. On Leopard (10.5), the Web folder appears as an alias in Finder, and yes, clicking on it will open it to show the Sites folder you should use. However, uploading using Finder is painfully slow and I would recommend avoiding it.

Hopefully this will help.

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Hi Guys thanks for the help . I went another root , after realizing that I have to go thru-Iweb.I called network solutions and had them host my site . I have uploaded all the files to them, Now I am waiting for that process to take place . The one problem that we realized right away is that we needed to rename the master page 1 to index . But the problem came when I changed it on my end but it would not save the changes on there server. Any changes i made on my site right at the computer would save all the changes but I could not upload anything to the server. Has anyone had this problem and how can it be solved. I really have to have my site up and running that is how i run my business Thanks again for everyone’s help. I really do appreciate it. have done a pretty good job designing this site considering I am a automobile dealer. But this part is really strange to me …

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Brian, I have to scratch my head i’m afraid. Your description is a bit confusing. It sounds like you have a different problem from what you originally posted.

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The name of the Master Page is irrelevant. Master Pages are used to control the common elements in the site.

Now, if you mean the “home page”, thn you need to use the Inspector Palette to chaneg the file name of the page you want people to see whan they first visit your page to index.html

To upload the site, you got to File>Upload. You will probably need to enter all the FTP details for yout serverm but once done you won;t need to do it again. After that, Freeway will upload the site to the place you specified.

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Yes I have done that . I did rename the page to index.html , Also I uploaded the whole site to the host with all the FTP info. When you make any additional changes do you first hit save then publish, then all changes are sent to the server. That is what i was doing and the host company said that the changes I am making are not being sent to the server.??? Am I doing anything wrong . Can you please expl;ain the proper procedure when making new pages or changing any info on your site then saving it to the server.Thanks Brian .

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Save does not send files to the server. IT just saves the Freeway document.

Use File>Upload to upload your site to the server.

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if you hit upload every time you want to save changes doesn’t that upload the whole site again???

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On 13 Jun 2008, at 12:15, Brian Gideon wrote:

if you hit upload every time you want to save changes doesn’t that
upload the whole site again???

They’re two entirely different things. Uploading just uploads the
site, it doesn’t save it. Saving it just does that, and doesn’t upload
it.

When you save, you save the work you’ve done on the site on your
computer, in a form that Freeway can read (the Freeway site file) in a
folder that you’ve chosen. When you upload, Freeway ‘makes’ your site
afresh, in HTML and CSS, which Freeway CAN’T read, and uploads it to
the server.

best wishes,

Paul Bradforth

http://www.paulbradforth.com

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I’m a bit confused also.
The site I created with Freeway has no page I name Index.html.
When Freeway published the folder it created one in the folder.
I stuck the folder on my Idisk and addressed the Freeway created index.html file.
Simple as that.

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The page Inspector Palette has two fields. One for the page title, one for the page file name.

I’ll try to explain:

The Page Title is a human readable name for the page. That eamsn the page could be called “My great site” or “home page” or “Escape From Kilburn” - it matters not a jot what this contains.

The page’s file name is theother (smaller) field. Usually, Freeway will make a file name which matches the page title, BUT it will be shortened, and will have a .html or .htm suffix.

The page you want people to see whan they first visit your site needs to be (usually) index.html or index.htm (check with your ISP as some servers expect default.html instead). Use the inspector palette to change the file name of the page to this. Then publish and upload.

You probably need to work through our tutorials just to familiarise yourself more with the way Freeway works and how things are done.

http://www.softpress.com/support/usingfreeway.php

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okay I have things working on the web, But when I make a change on any of my pages why is the info not being saved . It is being saved on my end but I cannot save the changes to the server.

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I think we’ve said this before.

1 - Save does NOT save your changes to the web. It saves the Freeway file. It is like hitting Save in Photoshop or Pages or Word - is saves the Freeway document to your hard drive. The Freeway document DOES NOT contain HTML.

2 - Upload uploads the site to the server. It sends changed files to the server. These will be HTML, images and other media.

I suggest you read some of the manuals which come with Freeway which explain this.

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I do understand all this but when you make changes to a file . How do you then upload just those changes not the entire site again.

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Freeway ‘should’ only upload the changed pages when you go to file>upload, although sometimes it sends the whole lot.

On 13 Jun 2008, at 15:43, Brian Gideon wrote:

I do understand all this but when you make changes to a file . How do you then upload just those changes not the entire site again.

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Thanks I have it working correctly now. when I hit upload now it does not take nearly the same time as the initial upload. Now I just have to correct my errors. I really want to thank everyone for there help. Brian G.

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On 13 Jun 2008, at 15:16, Brian Gideon wrote:

okay I have things working on the web, But when I make a change on
any of my pages why is the info not being saved . It is being saved
on my end but I cannot save the changes to the server.

I think there’s something basic you’re not ‘getting’ here Brian. You
upload to the server, by using the ‘Upload’ menu item in the ‘File’
menu. This uploads your site to the server. It does not save it
anywhere.
You save you site by going to the ‘File>Save’ menu item, or hitting
Apple-S. This saves what you’ve done to your site, on your hard disk.
It doesn’t have any effect on the server, and it doesn’t upload
anything. The two things are completely separate.

best wishes,

Paul Bradforth

http://www.paulbradforth.com

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