Publish Error - Lost Photos

I am suddenly getting a Publish Error message each time I try to publish to my computer. All of my photographs have disappeared.

I built a new site with 4 photo pages and 3 text pages.

I was publishing it to a local folder on my computer. All was went well.

The saved/published index booted the web pages nicely in my browser.

I ftp'd them to my web host and they looked fine live.

I closed out of all my programs and shut the computer down.

When I returned and turned on iWeb to make a few adjustments I could no longer publish to a local folder.

All my photographs have disappeared from iWeb.

I'm baffled. Any suggestions? I am using all the lated=st software.

Thanks - Fabini

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3), Over Caffeinated

Posted on Mar 21, 2013 10:24 AM

Mar 28, 2013 8:59 AM in response to Fabini

Last post on this issue...

I've published my web site. It opens and looks fine enough in five different browsers on the Macintosh. It looked dark on a Windows machine running both Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. My fist page was 100% black. Some small white fonts almost disappeared.I changed the background color to 82% black. It looks better on Windows systems now. I can live with it.

My takeaways...

Everything looks better on a big bright high resolution Macintosh than any Windows laptop. Always test on Windows machines and make adjustments.

iWeb adds files in the background and they must be regularly trashed. So does Safari. It has to be reset often. House cleaning is essential.

Not all browsers play nice with iWeb during development, but after hosting they run the site just fine. Don't freak out if Chrome or Safari does not display a photo page.

I long for a simple WYSIWYG Mac web site builder that is maintained by its parent company. By simple I mean for the amateur, not the professional.

Thanks everyone for your assistance. I appreciate it. - Fabini