Changing artwork for submitted podcast

Hi
I have submitted a podcast URL is https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/lynn-coxs-podcast/id555988938 and would like to know how I go about changing the artwork image that is now appearing to something else.
thanks

The image URL in your feed is podcastanagrammaticalunsods.podomatic.com/images/pcast240.jpg
The image which shows appears to be a default Podomatic image:
If this is the image you specified then all you have to do is to specify a new one in the same place (give it a different filename). However some of these online services insist on placing their own image instead of yours: I don't know whether Podomatic is one of them.

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Hello,
I recently created my own website in iWeb and published it to my .Mac account. Then I added a few podcasts created with GarageBand, they are also published on my .Mac website.
Then I submitted the podcast to iTunes. iTunes "took over" the artwork from the website with no author information, and there was no way in changing that during the submission. The podcast got approved but now the artwork that is used in iTunes is not really what I want. iTunes also lists "Unknown" as author.
Have a look yourself: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=211034820
Is there a way that I can change that? Yes, I have read the techspecs provided by Apple, but I do not really want to go down to bits and bytes and, above all, want that everythings continues to run automatically. I do not want to make manual changes to code everytime I republish the site.
Thanks for your suggestions, happy New Year by the way. Cheers,
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Hi Jean-Paul,
Although I haven't actual experience yet in publishing to iTunes, I would guess that to update your podcast series artwork there, it is simply a question of dragging a new image to the top-most placeholder in your iWeb podcast page. As the message says when you mouse-over that placeholder: "Drag a new image here to replace it." ...Then re-publish your site to .Mac.
The next step is extracted from someone else's post:
...Then you are supposed to ping iTunes and check back in an hour.
Here's the ping url if you don't have it...
https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast?id=YOURFEEDHERE
The "YOURFEEDHERE" is where you put your feed number from iTunes. It's in your acceptance email that iTunes sent you when your podcast was posted.
<<<<<<<<<<
...But whatever image you drop into that particular iWeb theme's placeholder, it will appear distorted in iTunes because the iTunes artwork holder is square, not rectangular - as your placeholder and image is. Try using iWeb's "White" template podcast page instead of your current template. The White's top-most placeholder is square (245x245 pixels) and therefore should not distort your image in iTunes.
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Please always post the URLs of the Store page and the feed when you have a question. For reference, your feed is at
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