Do I have to use GarageBand's templates?

Hi.
I want to use GarageBand to create podcasts, but do I have to use their templates for design? I have a website already and GarageBand's templates, though nice, don't match. Can I create my podcast files and store them on my own server, and use a link that GarageBand generates to submit to the iTunes directory? And if I have a link on my page that asks you to subscribe to the URL that GarageBand creats (in the Subscribe button) will that work?
Thanks,
Scott

Oh, sorry. Yes, I was referring to the iWeb templates.
So far I've been saving to disk (and of course, iWeb publishes all of the websites that I've made, and some of them are photoshoots with a lot of images...takes a long time), but the folder structure is different from the navigation that I have on my website, so I have to do some mods to my server structure.
Including the RSS code is a little hairy, but I think I've got it figured out. I'll keep experimenting.
Scott

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