iWeb and domain names 101

[Soundhound]

I know this material has been covered here before, but I'm having trouble putting the story together fully - sorry if this is repetitive, but:

I have a website up which I created in iWeb, and currently publish in iWeb using my Mobile Me account to host it. I assume that's how it's working anyway? I think the folders holding the site pictures etc are kept on my iDisk?

I have two questions

1) I want to purchase a simpler name for the site, and just work it so that everything is the same, but my site will now have a simple name, rather than the complex one it is assigned by iWeb (which uses my email address, etc etc)
How do I do that?

2) Is that the best way to do this, or are there benefits to having the site hosted by another service other than .Mac (or MobileMe - whatever it is porperly called these days.)

Thanks!

 

[maflynn]

1) I want to purchase a simpler name for the site, and just work it so that everything is the same, but my site will now have a simple name, rather than the complex one it is assigned by iWeb (which uses my email address, etc etc)
How do I do that?

Purchase the domain name you want with a registrar, say go daddy. Apple has a set of instructions to assign that name to your mobileme account or you can forward all requests (via a CNAME change in the dns name entry of the domain) to your mobile me account. Another option is to get a full fledged web host and you'll have more flexibility then mobileme.

2) Is that the best way to do this, or are there benefits to having the site hosted by another service other than .Mac (or MobileMe - whatever it is porperly called these days.)

Personally I have my mobileme account for my email since I've had mobileme since itools days and its too painful to change. I use a full fledged webhost for my website. Mobileme is too slow and limited for my liking. I'm not sure f the rules forbod mentioning who my web host is, so I'll not mention that but there's a ton of them.

Check out http://www.webhostingtalk.com/ for gaining more information about web hosts.