Easy iWeb Publisher 3.0.3

Although I've written a book about iWeb, I often tell my clients to avoid using it for their websites if they're planning on hosting anywhere but on MobileMe. Why? When you post to MobileMe from iWeb, you "Publish" and your site is uploaded. Minor changes to a site only take a few seconds to upload, since iWeb uploads only the changed files to your web server. That doesn't happen when publishing to other servers. Instead, you publish to a local folder, and then usually upload the entire folder to your web server. That can take a long time with a large site.

Plyxim's Easy iWeb Publisher 3.0.3 fixes that problem. The shareware ($7 donation requested) application makes it simple to publish to any web host. It's an ftp client that takes the local folder you've published your iWeb site to, compares it to the folder on your web server, and then uploads just the files that have changed.

I've found that Easy iWeb Publisher works much faster than most dedicated ftp clients when syncing iWeb files that have been changed, added, or deleted. Until Apple fixes iWeb '08 to make publishing easier for people who don't use MobileMe, this is a great way to work with your own hosting.

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Rich

www.singlewrench.com - Excellent File Management Transfer program for Mac.

August 08 2008 at 11:09 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jmello

Anyone know if this will work with any other website creation software?
I currently use RapidWeaver, and the publish function has never really worked for me. Will this save me from having to re-upload my website or pick and choose folders every time I update? (total is around 3.3GB atm)

August 01 2008 at 5:25 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Link Dupont

I wrote a little Applescript Studio app for my fiancÃ©e to use to upload her iWeb site. It's free: http://linkdupont.com/software/upload/index.html

July 31 2008 at 6:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Unregistered

Thanks! I will try it some day! :)

July 31 2008 at 9:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Rick

Anyone have experience with this when using multiple iWeb sites on the same domain? I use iWebsites to split up four different family websites that all fall under subdomains on my main domain.

July 31 2008 at 5:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Greg

I use iWeb for three websites, two very small and published with .Mac (MobileMe) and one larger site hosted by 1&1. EasyiWebPublisher allows you to pick which iWeb 'site' you want to update at a time, or all of your sites. So long as you have the correct address for your folder it usually works fine. And it makes a decent job of realising which files are new and which are not. It isn't foolproof, but it does save me uploading an entire site most of the time.

August 01 2008 at 4:30 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

indiekiduk

See when you publish to a folder with iWeb doesn't it write out every file thus making the modification date always newer than the server for every file? This would mean it is impossible to upload only modified files.

July 31 2008 at 4:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bassir

Is there a free alternative?

July 31 2008 at 4:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Catt

Another thing iWeb works out to $19 but you can't buy it solo so its really $79 and for that kind of $ you should be able to publish to any server you want not just to Mobile Me.
I like iWeb a lot its ease of use is unmatched IMHO for novices but publishing to other hosting services can be a royal pain so if this tool helps here! here!

July 31 2008 at 3:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Catt

Sounds good for donationware...

July 31 2008 at 3:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

wdympcf

Why not just use rsync to remote upload? It's built into OS X (read FREE) and works like a charm.

July 31 2008 at 3:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jash Sayani

Nice Tool! Uploaded my website to MobileMe. BTW, whats the URL of the MobileMe site ? Does not work with www.me.com/username

July 31 2008 at 2:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply