Choose FTP or MobileMe iDisk as the connection type from the popup menu.
• Server, username, password, port
Fill in the Server field with the address of the server you wish to connect to. This typically looks something like ftp.providername.com. Ask the server's administrator if you are unsure what the server's address is. If you are connecting to a server that requires authorization, fill in the User Name and Password fields. Otherwise, you may leave the User Name and Password fields blank. Enter the port of the server into the port field if it is not the default port (21).
• Directory
If you would like iWeb Valet to start uploading in a particular folder on the server, fill in the Initial Path field with the path to that folder (typical in sub-domains cases, as digilander.com/users/myname/, where you should write digilander.com in the Server field and users/myname/ in the directory field). Otherwise, leave it blank, and the upload will begin at the root of the FTP server.
iDisk
• Username, password
The server name for an iWeb site published to MobileMe is http://idisk.mac.com/your idisk username/; iWeb Valet will point to the Web -> Sites folder on your iDisk, and to the site(s) stored inside its subfolders. If your iDisk user name is “paul” and your Local Folder’s name is “myfirstsite”, iWeb Valet will synchronize files between your local folder and http://idisk.mac.com/paul/Web/Sites/myfirstsite/.
The file transfer is performed through the Finder WebDAV direct support.
According to Apple (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iWeb/2.0/fr/6838.html), if you don't publish your site directly with iWeb, these features are unavailable: password protection, blog and photo comments, blog search, hit counter, enhanced slideshows.
More options
• Upload only changed files
iWeb's biggest shortcoming is that when using it without a .Mobile account, you must republish the entire site after each change. When iWeb "publish to a folder", since every file is rewritten to that folder, modification dates are useless for use with an FTP program that supports syncing. iWeb Valet performs a file size check to determine which files are really changed, instead of checking the modification date, so you can send only files that are different, saving much transmission time.
• Delete remote files not on local site
This option will remove any file on the remote FTP side without a local equivalent in the iWeb site folder, so the old iWeb files - not replaced because the file name has changed - will be deleted from the FTP server, saving your server space. Please use this Delete option with discretion, because it is an irreparable act.
