I am new to this so my question is what exactly do you mean by (for example) “then put the favicon.ico file on the root level of your server”. I guess i do not understand where or what the “root level of my server” is….(If you do answer, could you answer in the form of FTP and not mobileme? thanks)
RNorcross, the root level of the site is the place where the URL begins it's access point. For example http://www.yoursite.com/this_is_your_root_level
When you login to your FTP your root level is sometimes depicted in different ways depending on who your host is. Sometimes when you log in you're directed right to your root level, and sometimes it is depicted by a folder such as public_html, www, httpdocs, etc
Hopefully that makes sense, and you can do what you need to do in that servers root directory and get your iWeb site going.
Thanks for the reply iWebUnlimited! Well I understood that the root level is like the example that you showed. The only problem is i was having a lot of trouble getting things to work that i had uploaded. For example, i completed many of your tutorials like Flash and comments in iWeb, but no matter what, it would not work the right way.For example, i was trying to complete "comments in iWeb" tutorial and i had no idea where to put the files.
So my question is, when you upload files to your root level, do you put the file into the folder of the webpage you want it in? or do you just put it wherever you want in the root level? (I know how to get it on the root level, just am not sure where the exact spot to put it on my root level). I hope you understand what i am asking haha.
Anyway thanks!
It all depends on what you want your URL to be. When you publish locally to a folder in iWeb all the files are put into that folder. If you upload that whole folder to your server your URL becomes http://www.yoursite.com/yourfolder/yourpage.html, so if you don't want that extra folder in the url, just upload the files to your root level so it become http://www.yoursite.com/yourpage.html (which I recommend).
How to make an URL of my home page to be http://www.mysite.com/ instead of http://www.mysite.com/sitename/mypage.html if publishing to my server directly in iWeb as which forced to generate an extra folder by Sitename? I know it could be figure out by moving all the files to root level in the server by trash the extra folder as well as changing the name of mypage.html to index.html, or publishing all the files locally in advance and then upload the files to the server without the extra folder. However, both of above ways seems not make sense as it must go through the changing steps for each time to make an update. Moreover, it's a bit annoying to upload all of files to the server whatever the pages were changed or not if publishing locally firstly. Hope that somebody could help. Thanks in advance!
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