Website publishes but is not showing up...

Just before I go - possibly TextEdit is messing you up. I don't know whether this will make any difference, but go into TextEdit Preferences, click the 'Open and Save' tab and check 'Ignore rich text commands in HTML files' - I don't know whether this affect saving. And what system are you using? - I'm on Snow Leopard and I don't know if Lion or Mountain Lion are different with TextEdit.

I can only hazard a guess that they've changed the behaviour of TextEdit so that it's creating a web page from the pasted in text rather than treating it as code. If so, this is STUPID - TextEdit in Snow Leopard is a very useful method of editing html and If I get round to upgrading I shan't be pleased to lose it.

However, let's cut the Gordian Knot on this one. I see you've got the site up and running as before.

Click on this link: http://rfwilmut.net/share/electricaltradesmen.zip

It will download a zipped folder. Double-click it to unzip, then open the folder. In it you will find an index.html file. Upload this to the root level of your server and let's keep our fingers crossed.

Remember that you will either have to re-upload it after every time you update the site; or alternatively each time you could remove the index.html file inside the site folder before uploading it.

That's still odd behaviour - I actually copied the code from the forum into the file I've made available to you, and that worked perfectly well. I think that there must have been some changes made in Mountain Lion. Anyway, I should just stop messing with it and use the file I've linked to, that should be OK.

Prefs page for Text Edit using Mountain Lion...

Dashcode is a lot better for editing html/css than Text Edit.

That's exactly the same as in Snow Leopard. I've found TextEdit useful - I've had situations where I've opened around 40 pages at once and done a find and replace, save, close on each one in rapid succession - it should work perfectly well as I originally described so why the OP is having this problem I don't understand. I can't replicate it myself (his version has the Generator listed as something like CocoaWebBuilder, I don't remember exactly what). Anyway I've provided a version which should work, so fingers crossed.

All this to remove Home.html from the URL...

You are doing fine in iWeb: your problems are arising because you are trying to force it to do something it's not designed to do in respect of the URL.

Your video shows what you are doing wrong in TextEdit (which has more options than my version). Firstly you are entering the title as index, not index.html: then in File Format you are choosing 'Web Page (html)' - this causes TextEdit to think you want the text you pasted in to be the content of the page rather than the coding.

I don't see an option there for saving as plain text, which is what you have to do. You may need to save it as a .txt plain text file, and then change the extension afterwards.

I should just use the file I gave you the download link for and save yourself some headache tablets.

I'm glad we got it sorted. Evidently the changes made in TextEdit complicate the issue considerably and unfortunately I can't check how the current version works.

I'm too old to jump out of retirement - or anywhere else much - but I appreciate the compliment.

Well yes, your url works as intended, but there is only content on the Home page and the Get a Quote page. Is this what you intended?

He's still in the process of constructing the site. It's been developing bit by bit all through the above fandango.

Oh, okay, I had not realised that - too intent watching the tennis match!

There are no changes in TextEdit.

Simply do Command-Shift-T to toggle between Rich Text Format and Plain Text.

It's in the menu.

You can also set the default in the preferences.

And when you open a html file , check Ignore Rich Text Commands in the Open dialog box to see the code.

In the old days TextEdit was named SimpleText.

But with the influx of new customers, Apple thought it wiser to change the name.