Renaming my Blog URL

how about adding a link from your existing website? OR, the only other way I can think is getting it hosted. It will look more prof. and you can tie it in with your website more easily.

Lisa1225 wrote:
I just started using iWeb to create a blog for my photography business. The only issue I have so far...

Lisa ~ Welcome to the discussions. If the experience of others is any guide, you'll probably eventually have issues...

Problems with iWeb's blog are a recurring theme on these forums: Lost all blog entries, or all comments, or unable to publish, or unable to open iWeb, etc.



And whether iWeb's blog works well or not is of little concern to Apple as it's only a tiny part of their software repertoire. If you switch to a dedicated blogging platform you're likely to have a better experience. For a success story using a non-iWeb blog hosted on WordPress, see this old thread:



To blog or not to blog



As an alternative to setting up a basic hyperlink to your external blog, you can link to it from iWeb's navigation bar:

Create a blank internal page titled "Blog" (actually you can name the page whatever you want.) Then in that Blog page add an HTML Snippet with the following code:



<script type="text/javascript">

parent.window.location = "http://www.yourblogname.com"; // change this to your own URL

</script>



...Once published, clicking on "Blog" in the navbar will immediately redirect to your external Blog page. (Thanks to Cyclosaurus for the code).

to answer your actual question. you might be able to do it. depends on your domain registrar. some will allow links such as what you want and others don't. one key element is if they are your host also. they aren't found of letting you split off, especially if you have to pay by bandwidth use.

what i have found is that /XXX doesn't work as well as XXX.domain.com

so for example. a friend is trying to set up a kind of ego site. he's a musician and a painter and wants a blog. and, weird as it sounds, he wants to set up mini domains for each. i'm not sure why but he's willing to pay me to figure it out so okey-dokey. and yes he's publishing by mobileme. so what we ended up with was

http://www.meandmyego.com forwards to web.me.com/meandmyego/Welcome
http://blog.meandmyego.com forwards to web.me.com/meandmyego/Blog.html
http://music.meandmyego.com forwards to web.me.com/meandmyego/Music.html

and so on.

depending on your registar you might have to do something similar

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Another possibility is to use a industrial strength blog like Alancito suggested and then embed it into one of your iWeb pages like this example: Embed One Site Within an iWeb Page.

OT

If your business site host has extras such as Content Management Systems, you would install Wordpress with a database directly onto your server and then you could have a blog with the url http://www.domain.com/blog.

I would suggest : http://drupal.org/
It's free, fast, powerful, versatile, great support and ... it's from Belgium.