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Website publishes but is not showing up...

Hi there!!! This is my 1st ever post on the apple support communities so be nice xD

Ok...Brace yourself.

I have made my 1st website in iWeb and have tried ALL yesterday to get it to bloody appear on my domain and it is still laughing at me.

I have tried to publish it through iWeb and it does appear on my server like so:

http://gyazo.com/90f389acfa26dc9a18c280505ed322de

But when I visit the website I get this:

http://gyazo.com/db8611d96ff60d8ba97ae01e66950e50

I have also tried exporting the website to a folder and uploading it via filezilla but still get the same problem... I am uploading it to the Public_html directory.

I seriously have not got a clue how all this stuff works and dont fancy paying a guy £500+ to change one filename for me.

It would be great if one of you can help me!!!

Michael

iWeb '08, iOS 6.0.2

Posted on Jan 12, 2013 3:27 AM

89 replies

Jan 14, 2013 1:44 AM in response to Wyodor

I did tell the OP to use plain text. What threw me slightly was that in his video the window into which he had pasted the code didn't have margins and looked like a plain text file does when you open it; but he was getting the Format options in the Save pane (which I do see in Rich Text on Snow Leopard) so I suppose he must have been in Rich Text: of course he then compounded it by saving it as a web page.

Wyodor

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Jan 14, 2013 1:56 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

When in RTF mode you can toggle the display with Command-Shift-W to display the page with margins or in full without margins.

Jan 14, 2013 9:16 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Hey Roger.

Another question...

Is there a way to make my home URL www.electricaltradesmen.co.uk

And not electricaltradesmen.co.uk/

I'm guessing its something to do with that index.html file you sent me :)

Michael

Roddy

Level 6

17,265 points

Jan 14, 2013 9:44 AM in response to Electricaltradesmen

Your site will come up with either the www or not.

Now that you have spent all this time "modifying" the URLs, I hope you realise that you are going to have a hard time getting your site indexed properly by Google.

This is a good example of how an entry should NOT look!

Try creating a sitemap.xml for your site before you continue down this rocky road.

Jan 14, 2013 9:51 AM in response to Roddy

The example Roddy gives is not going to be a problem with your site because there is no complicated scripting involved, only a simple framed page. However you should be aware that, though Google will index your site perfectly well, it will index the actual pages and people using the links will get the full URL including the page filename, not just the domain name. There is no way of avoiding that in iWeb.

Roddy

Level 6

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Jan 14, 2013 9:53 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

You do realise that there are 5 syntax errors in this doc and it shows a "garbled text" error in Firefox console.

<HTML>

<HEAD>

<TITLE>Electrical Tradesmen</TITLE>

</HEAD>

</BODY>

</NOFRAMES>

</FRAMESET>

</HTML>

Roddy

Level 6

17,265 points

Jan 14, 2013 9:56 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Google can't index the site properly because the sitemap.xml is not complete! Try running a sitemap on it it you will see what I mean.

Jan 14, 2013 9:58 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Hmm. I get the feeling that iWeb isn't going to be a good program to use...

If you guys were to make a website what program would you use?

I understand iweb is great for new people like myself and actual web designing is a lot of random coding.

I do not own a windows machine as they suck testicles.

So imac only :)

You guys have be more than awesome so far ;)

Michael

Roddy

Level 6

17,265 points

Jan 14, 2013 10:04 AM in response to Electricaltradesmen

Now that almost 50% of people are surfing the 'net with mobile devices, you either need a mobile version of your site or to create a responsive design which works on all devices.

Nowadays its more usual to use responsive designs that will adapt to all browser widths rather than have two versions of your site. Here's mine made using jQuery Mobile…

http://mobile.ezmacwebdesign.com/

Here's a demo of some of the techniques used in responsive design to create a more traditional looking site than the one shown above…

http://ezmacwebdesign.com/responsive-sidebar/index.html

Drag the browser window to the left to reduce its size and see the responsive action.

Jan 14, 2013 10:06 AM in response to Roddy

Your site is down roddy???

Jan 14, 2013 10:20 AM in response to Roddy

I get only the possible syntax error in FireFox: and the fact is that the file works perfectly well (the 'noframes' part of it is probably not necessary - I doubt anyone is still using a browser incapable of frames). It may not be compliant with the latest strict HTML spec from W3C but almost no sites are - they are deprecating the use of a lot of HTML including frames, and recommending css, which is all very worthy but it doesn't stop older types of programming working. Personally I find all this insistence that frames are a Bad Thing rather irritating; there are situations in which CSS is better, but there are also situations in which frames are useful (for example in not having to reload a navigation sidebar on every page change, as here). And in this situation the OP is inexpererienced and is not going to want to get into complicated progamming. The solution I proposed may be old-fashioned but it is simple to implement (and we had enough trouble over that) and it works.

Why would Google not index the site? I don't have a sitemap.xml on my (non-iWeb) sites and I get hundreds of hits every day.