How to Publish Your Podcast on iWeb Using GarageBand

After you're done editing your podcast on GarageBand -- you've recorded the audio, added the background music, excecuted the engineering features, added the pictures -- you need to publish the podcast so that people can start listening to it. An easy place to do it is through iWeb.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• computer
• internet connection
• GarageBand
• iWeb

1. You have your podcast, and you need listeners to listen. Lucky for you, it's really easy to do it with GarageBand, because they've done all the work for you. First, save your podcast.

2. You can send your podcast to iWeb in GarageBand by selecting "Send to iWeb." This automatically creates a podcast episode.

3. Another way you can do this is: you can drag your podcast from the iLife Media Browser in iWeb.

4. Once iWeb reads your podcast, you can customize it. Youc an create a podcast series, or if you are adding a new episodes, you can add them as blog-style entries.

5. This is also where you can add in the title, descriptions, and categories to make it easy for people to find your podcasts and understand what they're going to be listening to.

6. After you finish all the labeling and organization, all you have to do is click on the Publish button and iWeb puts your podcast on your .Mac account. With that one click, your podcast is on the web.

Tips & Warnings

• If you want to submit your podcast to the iTunes music store, you can do that really easily from iWeb as well.
• Pay special attention to your titles and summaries. Whenever you display your podcast, this is what listeners will need to go by in order to decide whether your podcast fits what they're looking for. Be clear and specific.
• Don't worry about creating an RSS feed. iWeb automatically sets it up for you.