7.11 Announcing Your HomePage

Every time you create a new page for your .Mac HomePage, you are given the opportunity to send out a notice, announcing the new page. If you are creating a new HomePage from scratch (including the Site Menu, Photo Albums, a File Sharing page, and more), you might want to hold off on sending out notices for each page and just send an announcement when your site is complete. Wait to send individual page announcements until later when you add something new to your site.

To send an announcement about the existence of your .Mac HomePage, follow these steps:

1. Go to the .Mac HomePage site (http://www.mac.com/homepage).

2. Click on the Announce Site button in the upper-right corner of the web page.

3. The page shown in Figure 7-47 appears, which lets you select an iCard to send out as the notification for your site.

   Figure 7-47. Select an iCard to send out to announce your .Mac site.

   
   

4. Select an iCard to send.

5. Type in a message to let people know about your site (you don't need to add the URL for your HomePage in the message).

6. Enter an email address in the "Enter emails" field. If you want to send the iCard to more than one person, place a comma between the email addresses (e.g., [e-mail], [e-mail]).

7. After you have entered all of the email addresses, click on the Send iCard button in the lower-right corner of the page.

The people who receive your iCard will also get a brief message saying that you are pleased to announce your new .Mac HomePage, followed by a link they can click on to take them to your site.