.Mac blog posts simple tip for homepage-iWeb redirection
This .Mac blog tip might certainly seem rudimentary to some, but I think it's an easy and handy idea for the general .Mac user who's wrestling with how to help make the jump from the "homepage" days of yore to the new hotness that is iWeb.
The tip boils down to this: unless you've been using a 3rd party tool like Rapidweaver to create and manage your .Mac site, the index.html file inside your iDisk/Sites/ folder (where your homepage files are) serves as nothing more than a 'pointer' to the default page for your homepage site. If you open that index file with a text editor you'll see only a couple of lines of code, with one of them pointing at a specific page in your .Mac site. If you want your default .Mac homepage URL
(homepage.mac.com/username) to automatically redirect users to your new iWeb site, simply change the URL in that index file to your new iWeb site, which by default is at http://web.mac.com/username/iWeb/. Save the file, wait for your iDisk to upload the change and you're all set. If you really wanted, you could make this point to any site you'd like.
Say, your favorite blog, for example?