Mac Monday: Set Up a Personal Domain with Your MobileMe Website
Apr 27th, 2009 by Ealeal
So you’ve been wanting to set up your own website, have you? Congratulations – you are making a step in the right direction towards web domination! If you are a Mac user, then getting started with your new online baby, your website, is probably even easier than you think, thanks to Apple’s MobileMe service.
MobileMe is a subscription-based collection of online services and software from Apple, the latest generational upgrade to Apple’s veteran iTools. MobileMe’s focus is – of course – the Apple junkies who simply have to sync their respective Geek Gear: their Mac, their iPhone and iPod Touch. MobileMe allows you to get it together, and keep it together, allowing your email, contacts, and calendar stay the same wherever you check them, no matter what device you use, as well as keep it all in sync across multiple devices. You can also set up your MobileMe account to use a personal domain name, so that the URL to any iWeb ’08 (or later) website that you publish to MobileMe is easy to remember. You can also choose to change the “CNAME record” on your registrar’s site, as described here.
With this handy video from Understand Your Mac, we’ll learn how to set your domain up with MobileMe as well as how to edit the cName in GoDaddy (other domain name providers are likely to be similar, but not exactly the same):
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