(Revised May 2008)
If you have a .Mac account, it is easy to create and manage
multiple websites. You can create your websites either with
the .Mac online Homepage tool or with a website creation
program or an HTML program. The first method, using the .Mac
online Homepage tool, is fairly straightforward, so, for this
tutorial, I'll focus on the second approach, using a website
creation or HTML program.
The easiest way to manage multiple websites with .Mac is to
create individual website folders and manually place them on
your iDisk, especially if you keep your iDisk mounted on your
Desktop at all times (see my tip,
"Keep Your iDisk on the Desktop").
1. Create a new folder and give the folder a
descriptive but short name.
2. Create the main page for your new website using
a web creation or HTML program (see my article
Web Design with Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.4 for suggestions).
3. Save the main page for the website in the new
folder you created. Be sure and name the page
"index.html".
4. Create as many other web pages as necessary for
your website and save all the pages in the folder you created
in Step 1.
5. Copy the folder with all the web pages to the
"Sites" folder on your iDisk.
6. Create additional websites by following Steps
1-5. Give each folder a unique name but make certain that the
main page in each folder is named "index.html".
Here is an example of how my Sites folder looks:

7. Create an "index.html" page for the top level
of your iDisk's Sites folder. Use this page to link to your
individual websites. Copy your new "index.html" page to the
Sites folder on your iDisk. When you create additional
websites for your .Mac account, you can add links to the
sites to this index page.
8. Connect to the Internet. Sync your Desktop iDisk with your virtual iDisk
by clicking the small circle symbol next to the Desktop iDisk in the Sidebar.
Now that you have multiple websites on .Mac
and an index page for all the sites, you can send links to
the sites to your friends and relatives. The link to all the
sites will be:
http://homepage.mac.com/[username]/index.html
and the links to individual sites will be:
http://homepage.mac.com/[username]/[foldername1]
http://homepage.mac.com/[username]/[foldername2]
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