September 8, 2007
Folks this is a no-brainer. I don’t know what you guys are using, but you do not need any third-party application to manage your iWeb domain files for you. In fact I would not let an application do that at all.
My solution is simple. I created a folder on my hard drive to keep my iWeb 2.0 domain files and then I simply dragged it to my dock. Then, when I want to work on a site, I just open that file, which in turn, opens iWeb 2.0 for me.
If I want to create a new site domain file, I open iWeb directly and it will prompt me to either choose an existing domain or create a new one.
ALWAYS let iWeb create the new domain for you. Do not duplicate domains for any reason. There are hundreds of unique ID’s within a site that need to remain unique. If you duplicate a site, your UUID’s are no longer unique and you put yourself at risk to lose your work. Missing images, missing text boxes, content moves around on your pages… these are all potential symptons of duplicated domain files.
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Do you create the folder in the Library/iWeb or anywhere?
iWeb has to know that you have other Domain.sites, right?
Do you rename your manually or does iWeb do it for you?
I am confused because I have never been asked, and I always get Domain.sites2.
Thanks.
My folder is elsewhere. It does not have to be Library/iWeb.
No, it does not need to know that you have other sites. It looks to the last place where it opened a domain file first. If there’s a file in that location named domain, it will open it. If not (meaning you moved it or renamed it) then it will prompt you to create a new one or locate one that already exists. It doesn’t matter if it’s named “domain” or “mycooldomain” or “mywebsite”. The name is irrelevant.
I name them manually myself.
You get the domain.sites2 I believe when you import domain files from 1.0. iWeb assumes the name will stay the same, but gives it an extention with the “2″ in there so it knows it was an imported 1.0 site.
If you want iWeb 2.0 to create a new domain for you. Rename your current domain file to anything but the name “domain”. Then start iWeb 2.0 and it will prompt you to create a new domain or find one you want to open.
If I already created several websites within the same domain, is there any way to separate those into different domains without having to rebuild the sites?
Thanks so much for your assistance and for your website!
Linn, yes, you can separate your sites into individual domain files. You just duplicate your main domain file, giving the duplicate a new name like Site 2 or whatever makes sense to you. Then you open them individually and delete out the other site information so that each domain now only contains the site info relevant to the title.
I would visit the Apple iWeb forums to get full instructions or more detail about this.