Section 47. Create a .Mac Web Page


47. Create a .Mac Web Page

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

45 Sign Up for .Mac


SEE ALSO

51 Keep Your iDisk in Sync

53 Password-Protect Your Public Folder


.Mac is all about personal publishing. Whether you want to display a photo album, write a personal journal or newsletter, share files with other web users, or post a r sum , .Mac provides ready-made templates you can use to create your online presence quickly, easily, and attractively.

47. Create a .Mac Web Page


This procedure explains how to create a home page using Apple's predefined themes and page structures. If you're an experienced web designer, though, you can publish your pages in a much more streamlined way: by adding files to the Sites folder in your iDisk. Copy an index.html file and other pieces of web-page content to upload them to the .Mac server, and they will be immediately available at http://homepage.mac.com/< membername > .

If you use a locally cached copy of your iDisk (see 51 Keep Your iDisk in Sync for details on how to do this), publishing is even quicker: Items that you move into the Sites folder are immediately copied to the local cache, and are then automatically synchronized to the server in the background, so you don't have to wait for the network's latency in transferring files.

1.
Log in to the .Mac Web Page

Using your web browser, go to http://www.mac.com and log in using your .Mac account information if you aren't already logged in.

2.
Go to the HomePage Section

Click the HomePage icon in the menu on the left side of the screen. You are taken to the main screen for your HomePage, where you can create new pages, manage existing pages, view news about the HomePage service, and add special features such as password protection.

3.
Select the Type of Page

At the bottom of the screen is a vertical row of tabs, each corresponding to a style of web page. Click the tab that best matches the kind of web page you want to create. For this example, click the Writing tab to create a page on which you can publish personal writings.

4.
Choose a Theme

Each page style comes with a palette full of ready-made themes designed by Apple; they range from the basic and austere to the flashy and downright gaudy. Click the icon for the page style you like best.

NOTE

You can always change the theme for your web page later, even after you've entered all the content, by clicking the Theme button at the top of the Preview page.

5.
Edit the Page

After selecting your theme, you are taken to the Preview page, where you can view the layout of the page with dummy text and pictures. Click the Edit button at the top of the page. All the changeable fields become editable; you can click any of them and type text to your heart's content.

TIP

You can return to the HomePage start page at any time by clicking the HomePage title at the top of any page during the editing process. Doing so cancels editing or creating your in-progress page.

6.
Insert a Picture

Some types of pages let you place pictures of your choiceselected from the Pictures folder on your iDisk, not your Mac hard diskin certain positions in the layout. (See 50 Connect to Your iDisk and 51 Keep Your iDisk in Sync for more information on accessing the contents of your iDisk and placing pictures into its Pictures folder.) In places where you can put a picture, there is always a Choose button; click this button to be taken to the iDisk file browser page. This screen looks similar to the Column view of the Finder, and gives you access to the Pictures and Movies folders in your iDisk, as well as to the .Mac Image Library . You can browse any subfolders that might exist inside these folders to locate a file. The only difference between this screen and a Finder window is that instead of double-clicking a picture file, you must click to select it and then click Choose . It is, after all, a web page, and double-clicking doesn't do anything.

7.
Publish

When you're done editing the page, click Preview to return to the Preview screen and see the page with all your modifications. From there (or directly from the Edit page), when you're ready to publish the page and make it available to web surfers, click the Publish button. You are given a link in large letters that goes to the newly created page; you can copy the URL (address) and send it to friends , or click the handy iCard button to send the link in an electronic postcard.

TIP

After you've created a page or two, experiment with the options at the HomePage start page. You can edit or delete existing pages, add password protection, or even click and drag pages in the list to change the order in which their links are listed (the first page, shown in bold, is the main page that users see when they go to your home page's URL: http://homepage.mac.com/< membername > , where <membername> is your .Mac member name ).




MAC OS X Tiger in a Snap
Mac OS X Tiger in a Snap
ISBN: 0672327066
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2001
Pages: 212
Authors: Brian Tiemann

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