2 Questions From BRAND Newbie

[jdpimps]

Hi I am BRAND new to all of this. Basically, I use IWEB 08 to create my website and then use yummy ftp to upload to my server (which I bought on godaddy.com).

Anyway, I have a couple of questions:

1- Password protection...The IWEB 08 software basically says I cannot set up password protection on their end unless I publish to a .mac account. Since I do not obviously publish to a .mac account I am wondering what, if anything, I can do to get my page password protected? Is this something the Yummy software can somehow help with?

2- If I make a change on a random page but no other changes to my website, do I need to re-upload all my site folder or is there a way to upload only the change? Is this was the "synchronization" option in Yummy is for?

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

[spacific]

1.  Yummy cannot help with this. You would have to set up some password authorization on your web site. This requires scripting on the server, or you may be able to find something similar to .mac -- that is a web server that provides security features built-in.  I do my own authorizations so can't help here.

2. Synchronization can certainly help here, it will do the job you describe. However you can just update the individual file: with the Yummy window open showing your file listing on the sever, drag the new version from the Mac to that window and Yummy will transfer that new version.

[JD]

For password protection, spacific is right, you need to do some work on the web server itself to provide that. Maybe GoDaddy can help with that.

For the synchronization, unfortunately the design of iWeb is such that each time you publish your site the whole thing is re-created from scratch so there is no possibility to use the synchronization feature to upload only the changed files - all of them have changed. This is a well known limitation of iWeb and your only option is to re-upload the whole site.