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Posted 2 years ago by redback

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redback said 2 years ago

Hi guys, I am pulling my hair out regarding these 2 issues. Re: Site title, I have gone into the html and changed the title to redback, saved and republished but that didnt work. I have used TextWrangler to do the same thing but that hasnt worked either. I have used the html widget but that creates a white box which does go away but still the site title isnt how I want it - it should simply read as redback not the names of the pages on the site! Honestly, there must be a simple fix to this. Also, how do I change the URL to the site that I want. For e.g. at the moment I have - http://web.me.com/ajmesher/www.redbackstudios.co.uk/Redback.html, but I just want http://www.redbackstudios.co.uk! I would appreciate any help, thanks in advance, redback. PS I have saved a screener with imgur - not sure if I have done it right.
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blindman007 said 2 years ago

Hi Redback. Firstly, all iweb sites will have the web.me business in then. You can 'add a personal domain' in mobile me. This is where you have a domain name registered (redbackstudios.co.uk) and change the 'cname' on the domain register, however you will still get the web.me.com stuff. Mobile me is a great way to host a site, as its included in your subscription, but to do what you want you need to register your domain name and use a redirector, sometimes called 'cloaking', this will then only display the url you have registered. So ask the company you want to register your domain with if they have this service. Also, you don't need to set up 'personal domain' on mobile me when you do this. As far as the page names appearing on your pages, you can disbale this in the inspector on iweb. Not infront of my mac at the moment, but have a look around on the different tabs, its definetly there, post back if you can't find it. You will then be able to have just you text box with website name at top of page. Checkout cloaking on my site boutiqueblinds.com.au
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iWebUnlimited said 1 year ago

Well said Blindman007.

With domain names and mobileme you pretty much have 3 options:

1) You keep the default name http://web.me.com/sitename as your URL
2) You register a domain name (i.e. http://www.yoursite.com) with a registrar like GoDaddy and set up forwarding to your mobileme address (with the option to mask the domain name so it shows your site the whole time). This option will only redirect them to your site. You won't have the pagename after your domain name.
3) This is if your really want the main domain name for everything. Simply register a domain name with someone like GoDaddy, then login to Me.com and go to the settings and put in your domain name (www.yoursite.com), then log into your domain registrar and change your cname to web.me.com. Give it all some time to adjust and your set.

Hope that helps. This topic has been addressed many times on this forum you can get more info by looking at these posts http://iwebunlimited.com/forum/search.php?q=Domain+MobileMe
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ronnietemple said 1 year ago

I used to redirect from my site http://www.openphotography.co.uk (hosted by register.com) to my iWeb-created site on MobileMe but there were 2 things not quite right about this: (1) The URL always appeared to the viewer as http://www.openphotography.co.uk, even when navigating around the various pages of the site, but more importantly, (2) the source consisted of only a few lines of code, which only actually showed the redirect to my MobileMe, and contained nothing relevant for a search engine to fund.

I recently found out how to add a domain name alias (CNAME) to point to web.me.com but and to publish from iWeb directly to ww.openphotography.co.uk, which it does, but my problem is that the URLs for the 9 pages on my website contain duplications. For example, the URL of my home page is http://www.openphotography.co.uk/openphotography.co.uk/home.html but instead I'd like it ti be http://www.openphotography.co.uk/home.htm. Any ideas?
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MiriMiri said 1 year ago

HI everybody,
I NEED HELP FILLING OUT A FORM CORRECTLY!

I am trying to get my new domain working on iweb as well. I have to be honest: "I'm a technical zero!"
(I bought my domain at whois.com)
I found the CNAME records section in some DNS (?) thingy.

Then it says: "fill in the form below to add an CNAME Record for domainname.com:
And then:

HOSTNAME: ______________.domainname.com (eg.domainname.com)

VALUE (and here you choose one of the following)
- _____________________.domainname.com
- _____________________ (Type In A Fully Qualified Domain Name eg. abc.pqr.com)

TTL: ______(but they put the number 28800already in)______ (e.g. 172800) (NOte that the TTL value you specify will be updated in all records of the same type for this zone.)

and the a button "ADD RECORD"

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I tried this 2 days ago but when I go onto the domain it's page not found even though my mobileme is "cool" with the domain (!!!)
I contacted whois.com and they just send me a general info!

If some iwebber could help me please, i'd really appreciate it!

Thanks,
Miri

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iWebUnlimited said 1 year ago

hostname: web.me.com