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haverhillharry - May 9, 2007 - 3:16 am

I have created a mac.com website using i-Web. I have bought a domain and space with my ISP for a more general website. How can I transfer the mac.com site to the new address? What are the steps, practical and technical, I need to go through. I also have Sandvox installed.

dl33 - May 9, 2007 - 7:39 am

There is a nice Option called File>Publish to Folder
If you select this iWeb will create all the files in a location that you specify.
Afterwards you can use an FTP client such as Cyberduck (http://cyberduck.ch/) to transfer the files to your webserver. Make sure that the index.html file is in the top directory of your webserver. (It is usually called web or html)
I hope this helped, if not let me know,
dl33

haverhillharry - May 9, 2007 - 4:00 pm

Thanks. Looks pretty straightforward apart from the last bit but I'm sure that will come clear when I actually do it.My server is BT and they have a limit to how much you can upload in one go. Some of my single music files are bigger than the limit. Is there any way to compress files to upload or do i just need to contact BT and look for some kind of upgrade on my deal?

dl33 - May 9, 2007 - 4:52 pm

As far as I know there is no way to compress files for uploading. You can of course compress them the normal way (zip or tar etc) but then they will be in that format on the server and they cant be accessed. If you are talking about music files, I would do it anyway, unless of course they need to be played back online. If you only want to store files, you can compress them. I would use StuffIt to do this.
(Remember, if files have to be accessed on the web (like html pages or music that will play inside the browser) don't compress them.