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If you're using Apple's iWeb to build a website, you can use Fetch to upload your website to any web server. You'll find uploading your website is easy after you do it once.

The instructions are slightly different depending on which version of iWeb you have. Follow the appropriate directions below.

To publish your pages from iWeb 3.0 or later (iLife '09 or later) and upload them using Fetch:

  1. Create a folder on your desktop with the name of your website (something like "My WebSite March 5").
  2. Open iWeb.
  3. Select your site by clicking its name in the sidebar on the left of the iWeb window.
  4. In the Site Publishing Settings window, click the Publish to pop-up menu and choose Local Folder.
  5. In the Folder Location section, click the Choose button.
  6. You will be prompted to choose a folder to put your website files in. Navigate to and open the folder you created on your desktop, then click the Choose button.
  7. Click the Publish Site button in the toolbar at the bottom of the window.
  8. iWeb will export the files that make up your website.
  9. Open Fetch.
  10. Enter the information for your server into the New Connection dialog and click Connect.
  11. A new window listing the folder and files on your server appears. This is the Fetch transfer window.
  12. In the transfer window, open the folder where you want to put your website files. You can change to a different folder by double-clicking on its icon.
  13. Open the website folder you created on your desktop. You will see an index.html and one or more folders.
  14. Select all of these and drag them to the transfer window of Fetch.
  15. Fetch will start uploading your files and folders. The dog cursor runs until Fetch has finished putting your files on to the server.
  16. Once Fetch has finished uploading, visit your website to make sure it looks correct.

To publish your pages from iWeb 2.0.4 or earlier (iLife '08 or earlier) and upload them using Fetch:

  1. Create a folder on your desktop with the name of your website (something like "My WebSite March 5").
  2. In iWeb, go to the File menu, and choose Publish to a Folder.
  3. You will be prompted to choose a folder to put your website files in. Choose the folder you created on your desktop.
  4. iWeb will export the files that make up your website.
  5. Open Fetch.
  6. Enter the information for your server into the New Connection dialog and click Connect.
  7. A new window listing the folder and files on your server appears. This is the Fetch transfer window.
  8. In the transfer window, open the folder where you want to put your website files. You can change to a different folder by double-clicking on its icon.
  9. Open the website folder you created on your desktop. You will see an index.html and one or more folders.
  10. Select all of these and drag them to the transfer window of Fetch.
  11. Fetch will start uploading your files and folders. The dog cursor runs until Fetch has finished putting your files on to the server.
  12. Once Fetch has finished uploading, visit your website to make sure it looks correct.

If you are having problems with your website after following the instructions above, please see the solving problems with websites and iWeb help topic for solutions and troubleshooting advice.

If you haven't already, you may want to create a shortcut to your server for quicker access in the future. See the creating a shortcut help topic for more information.