I just started playing around with iWeb, and when I start it up it asks if I want to sign in to .Mac

I don't have a .Mac account, nor do I want one. Can I still just use iWeb to design pages? If so, how?

I feel I should mention that when I get iWeb open and go to the File menu none of the options are clickable, they're all greyed out. What gives?

Yeah you need a .mac account.

get a trial of .mac, you need .mac to use iweb

I use iWeb without a .Mac account, for both my personal web site hosted through OSX's inbuilt web sharing, and another site for which I export the site in full and upload it using Transmit. I manage dual sites with iWebSites.

Ok, well how do you get iWeb to work without .Mac? I can't even select "New Page" Or "New Site", all of my options are greyed out.

There is some hack to cheat .mac somwhere....

you dont need .mac . you only need it for the oneclick publishing, if you have a different server / webhost you can just hit export to file and upload it from your desktop

You definately do not need .mac or any sort of hack to make it work. You use it just like normal but instead of publishing to .mac you publish to a folder on your local machine and then upload that to the server you are using.

For instance I use 110mb.com, at first I would create my page in iweb, then zip up the folder I made in iweb, upload the zip folder and extract it using their file manager tool. Boom website created, it couldn't be much simpler.

it doesnt require you to have dot mac when you install. just checked

I don't use .mac at all. I design the page in iWeb, "publish" it to the Sites folder in my Home Folder, and then redirect a .co.nr domain (it's free!) to my IP and let Apache host it. Just for kicks, I left the "Made on a Mac" logo in there.

http://www.erbic.co.nr

It's nothing special; there's not much there. Just proof you don't need .mac for an iWeb site.

it does defeat the purpose of the whole "one click publishing" thing, but it is nice to be able to use other servers with iweb. personally, i love golive. its much more comprehensible than dreamweaver (in my opinion) and it is very powerful

I just started using iWeb, i built a site, and i published it to a folder. I tried uploading it through fetch, and now the site just comes up blank. Am i doing something wrong.
my web site address is
www.sonsice.com
please let me know if you have any suggestions.
thank you,
jason

i used to be using macromedia dreamweaver 8 on windows. never had a problem.