Black background on cut out shapes (photos)

Hello.
Here is my problem: I'm working with a photo of a flower. I'm working in Photoshop and I have deleted everything around the flower so that it is a flower shaped picture. I cut it and pasted into a page on iWeb. The first time it worked grate. Both in iWeb and in a browser. The second time it looks right in iWeb, but when I publish to folder and open it in a browser, a black, square background appears.
WHY?
PLEASE HELP. I just can't figure this one out. (I've been looking in the forum but found nothing)
Thank you all in advance, Cirrous

Hello Cirrous welcome to the forum,
If you want a _transparent image_ export as gif or png from photoshop and bring into iWeb or make jpg image background same color as webpage background.
Best of luck to you.

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