How to make a website using iWeb

Your ISP may well include some webspace for you to use as part of your account.

 

You'd need to register a domain and buy some server space. Typically domain names are about $10 a year, and hosting is somewhere around $5-$10 per month. If you buy the domain name from the hosting company, it's often free for the first year.

I've always bought hosting services from iPowerWeb. They have good prices, excellent service, and very good front-end controls and stats. Your iWeb files are uploaded from iWeb's FTP function with one click, just like with mobil.me

 

Publishing without MobileMe

Not a MobileMe salesman or anything, but you may have noticed that most hosting places are around $10/month, or $120 for a year. MobileMe is $99/year, and includes many more features, including the ability to allow comments on your site, password protected sites, hit counters, blog search, and enhanced slideshows. While there are various work-arounds for some of these (requiring perhaps a higher level of technical knowledge), if these features appeal to you and hosting elsewhere would cost more, you may want to reconsider MobileMe. Personally it's been great for me and for many clients, although it's not a perfect fit for everyone's needs, but in my work many of my clients common complaints about publishing an iWeb site go back to those features that they can't use because they didn't have MobileMe.

 

Heh. I'm not an iPowerweb salesman either, but they're getting $72/year for unlimited storage space and unlimited transfer, plus free domain name, 2500 email accounts, etc.

 

Hello..

Yes Essentially you just need some web-space. to put all those lovely little files..

However you DO NOT need a Domain name like the others have said..

You can if you like of course buy one. I have several. Personal ones & work ones etc. Usually your internet provider will provide some form of web hosting, except on the more basic or value packages so you may already have a bit of space at...

www.yourISP.com/Your Username/index.html

or something symilar. Go to your ISP's website to find out what you get on your package. Failing that you can get free hosting from various places (do a google search).

So A Few points....

1) you Only really need space to host a website.
2) You may already have some space with your ISP etc
3)Buy a domain name if you want it for keeps, not just a little fun... eg
www.theappledude.com (Sadly already taken!)
4)Buying a Domain name is JUST THE NAME, unless you buy a package with webspace attached!

Hopefully this will make things a little clearer, but If you do buy a domain name, make sure it is YOURS, and not tied to any web hosting package. That way if its a rubbish/costly web hosting package you can jump ship but still keep the name!

Have fun!

Wheaty