IWeb Domain Name Question, Please Help

I created an iWeb website hosted on my .Mac account.
I forwarded my personal domain name, so that the website uses the domain <www.JohnPositive.com>.
But once it gets to the site, the domain in the URL line changes to the long iWeb name of <www.johnpositive.com/jp/CASA.html>.
What's bad about this is that I have a nationwide ad coming out that advertises the webpage of my site <www.johnpositive.com/students>, but the problem is that .Mac doesn't recognize this site, because it's changed to the long iWeb name of <www.johnpositive.com/jp/students.html>.
How do I convert that URL back to a shorter URL, such as, <www.johnpositive.com/students>?
I appreciate anyone's help on this. Must I create a redirect page? Are there some settings I'm missing?
-Jan

the url instantly changes and is long.
This is the way CNAME pointing works with .Mac. If you like you can make things shorter by shortening the names you give your site and pages.
Your "url", namely what people need to type to get to your site, is of course just the short version. What appears in the browser address bar is really irrelevant, but if it matters a lot to you, then you can undo everything you did for CNAME and switch to ordinary url forwarding/masking. With that, for every page on your site only www.myname.com will appear in the browser address bar for every page.

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