Uploading Files


Although I covered how to copy files to your iDisk in Chapter 3, it's central enough to using HomePage that we'll cover the basics again here. For complete information on iDisk, including connecting to iDisk and uploading files, see Chapter 3, "Using iDisk."

The reason iDisk is so important when publishing a Web page using .Mac is that HomePage looks to iDisk for the pictures, movies, and other files that it displays on each Web page. If a file is not on your iDisk, you can't publish it on the Web with HomePage.

To Upload a File to Your iDisk

1.

From the Go menu, choose iDisk > My iDisk (Command-Shift-I) (Figure 4.1). The Connect To iDisk dialog opens, asking for your .Mac member name and password (unless you've already entered that information in System Preferences, in which case your iDisk mounts automatically on your Desktop).

Figure 4.1. From the Go menu, choose iDisk > My iDisk to connect to your iDisk.


2.

Enter your .Mac member name and password, and click Connect (Figure 4.2).

Figure 4.2. Enter your .Mac member name and password in the Connect To iDisk dialog, and then click Connect to connect to your iDisk.


Your iDisk mounts on your Desktop, and you can use it like any other volume (Figure 4.3). The connection to your iDisk is maintained until you disconnect it or shut down your computer.

Figure 4.3. Once mounted, your iDisk works like any other network volume.


3.

Open a new Finder window, navigate to the files you want to copy to your iDisk, and select them (Figure 4.4).

Figure 4.4. Before you copy files to the iDisk, you need to navigate to them.


4.

Drag the selected files to the appropriate folder on your iDisk (Figure 4.5).

The selected items are successfully copied to your iDisk.

Figure 4.5. To copy files to your iDisk, drag them to the folder to which you want to copy them.


Tip

  • Rememberimage files must be placed inside the Pictures folder on your iDisk (or a subfolder of Pictures) in order for HomePage to find them. Same goes for movie files.





.Mac with iWeb Visual QuickStart Guide Series
.Mac with iWeb, Second Edition
ISBN: 0321442288
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 113

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