Fed up with iWeb's idiosyncrasies! What program accepts the FTP output file from iWeb with the least amount of work required?

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Fed up with iWeb's idiosyncrasies! What program accepts the FTP output file from iWeb with the least amount of work required?

Hi...

I have been a longtime user of iWeb and have learned many things about it the hard way. Now even after duplicating and saving my domain names constantly to external hard drives, downloading additional software such as iWebdrop and iWeb SEO, learning how to unhide files that shouldn't be hidden in the first place, and consistently finding the elusive domain files, I find myself, yet again, searching high and low for the updated domain that I spent two days doing a major rehaul on. I have proof that I wasn't dreaming as it's currently up on my website and I have the exported FTP file.

So after years of crying over lost iWeb domains I've decided it time to make the leap to different software.

I need something akin to iWeb as I'm not at all versed in HTML. My main goal is to minimize the amount of work by using the FTP files I exported last night.

I've read the recomendations here but just want a simple solution with no HTML coding needed.

Flux?

Thanks!

iWeb '08, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Jan 27, 2013 10:50 AM

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Old Toad

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Jan 27, 2013 11:22 AM in response to mlaughbaum

If you upgrade to iWeb 3 you won't have problems with ftp. It's compatible with Mt. Lion while iWeb 2 isn't. You'll be able to upload directly from iWeb to your server with the right ftp information.

There is a new application that will be released soon that is supposed to be an iWeb replacement, only better: Easyweb

OT

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mlaughbaum Author

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Jan 27, 2013 11:25 AM in response to Old Toad

I have 3.0.4

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Old Toad

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Jan 27, 2013 11:32 AM in response to mlaughbaum

I see you're using iWeb SEO by publishing your site to a folder on your hard drive and using iWeb SEO on it. If that version of your site opens and displays OK in your browser iWeb has done its job.

How are you uploading the files after that? Personally I publish my sites to a folder on the hard drive, use iWebSEO to add metadata and then use Web Site Maestro to optimize and upload the site to my server. This combination works great for me. WSM will only upload those new or modified files so it's very quick when making changes.

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mlaughbaum Author

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Jan 27, 2013 11:35 AM in response to Old Toad

Here's the issue:

I now want to update the file I published last night and I can't find the domain with all the changed information.

I agree that iWeb did it's job but now I can't find the last updated domain.

Is that a bit clearer?

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Roddy

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Jan 27, 2013 11:39 AM in response to mlaughbaum

See this page for info about using iWeb with Mountain Lion and opening separate Domain.sites2 files...

http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/mountain-lion.html

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mlaughbaum Author

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Jan 27, 2013 11:48 AM in response to Roddy

Again, it's only showing me domains that are super old.

When I was saving last night (again I'll say constantly) how can I find out where it was saving to?

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Roddy

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Jan 27, 2013 11:51 AM in response to mlaughbaum

Use this freeware app to search for Domain (or Domain.sites2 if you have file extensions turned on in Finder prefs)...

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/30073/find-file

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mlaughbaum Author

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Jan 27, 2013 12:12 PM in response to Roddy

Nope. It's just no where to be found.

I mentioned in another post that during this entire episode an icon with files from my old mobile me account kept popping up. I kept having to eject it and I thought maybe that might have something to do with the issue.

Though it was there this morning, now I can't find that icon anywhere.

This must be the fifth time I've had issues like this which is why I'm fed up and feel the need to move on.

I wish there was some way to reverse engineer the FTP file.

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