
How to create web sites using your recipes
MacGourmet allows you to easily publish recipes, wine notes and notes to your Apple MobileMe account. To create a new publication, click the Add button. This will display the configuration sheet.
- Title - This field lets you specify the name of the publication. This name is used both for the publication's entry in the Publish menu, and as the title displayed on the index page of your publication.
- Summary - This field allows you to specify a brief summary for your recipe and notes sites.
- Server Type - This pop up menu lets you pick which type of server to write your data to. Currently MobileMe, WebDAV, and Local disk are offered.
- Server - This text field specifies the address of the server to connect to. For MobileMe this value is fixed.
- Website URL - This field is used to specify the base URL for your recipe site. This URL is the specification of how the user will get to your web site. You can change this to anything you want, but it will also get updated automatically for you as well, using information inserted into other fields. For MobileMe this can usually be left as it is.
- Publish Folder - This text field specifies the location on the server or file system where your files should be written. Note that when using MobileMe, that the location Apple specifies is "Web/Sites/yoursitename" so while you can specify anything you want, the suggested location starts with "Web/Sites" followed by the name of a folder that will contain your site.
- Create export files for published items - Checkbox that allows you to create MacGourmet export files as part of your publication, so that importing your recipes by other users can be as simple as just dragging the image of an export file from a web page into MacGourmet.
- The Template and Style pop up menus allow you to pick one of the included MacGourmet themes for your publication.
After creating the specification for your publication, you can publish it by choosing
File > Publish.
The Publish menu contains your publications, listed by their titles.
Selecting a publication from the menu will create all of the files necessary for your site,
in the location you specified. Once the publication is complete, you can access it using the URL
displayed in the field labeled "This site's address is:" when your publication is selected in
the Publish preferences table.