iWork '09: The Missing Manual

Publishing Online with iWeb

iWork.com is a convenient way to share a document with an invited group. But when you’re ready to share your creation with the masses, it’s time to graduate from a private website to the public Web. To help you fast-track your Pages documents to the net, Pages lets you send documents directly to iWeb, Apple’s friendly software for creating personal websites, blogs, and podcasts. If you use iWeb to create and maintain your site, this makes for an easy way to add a document download to your page.

Note

This feature requires iWeb ’08 or later.

From the Share → “Send to iWeb” submenu, choose a file format to use on your site—either PDF or File. PDF is pretty much always the way to go here, unless you’re positive that all your site’s visitors use Pages. (Both options save a separate copy of the file, and any subsequent changes that you make won’t appear on the iWeb site.)

As soon as you make that selection, iWeb launches. If you haven’t yet set up a site in iWeb, it asks you to select a template to use and creates a site. If you’ve already got multiple sites, iWeb asks you which site you want to edit. A brand new page opens with a thumbnail image of your document. Use iWeb to bring the web page up to date with any text and images you’d like to add to introduce or describe your document. When you publish the page to your site, visitors can click the thumbnail image in their browsers to download the document.

Visitors who subscribe to your site’s podcast via iTunes ...