Incorporating html site into iWeb

As a newcomer to iWeb I’d be very grateful for some advice on incorporating html pages. I realise I can add html snippets, but even a fairly simple addition introduces complications. When iWeb creates a completely plain page, call it xxx.html, it generates a fairly substantial set of image, css and js files in the accompanying xxx_files folder. If a snippet also comes with its own supporting files, is there a simple way of adding them without tortuously editing the html by hand?
In fact what I really want to do is to include a more substantial site without recreating it page by page. For example, I have built a family tree site which so far I have only burned onto DVDs to hand out to other family members. There is an html Cover Page which links to other files in a Records folder. Within this are other folders, one of them containing the images that appear on the cover, the rest containing subordinate html files which in turn link to other images or to yet lower level html files and so on.
Is it possible to transfer all this in one go so that I can incorporate the Cover Page as one of my iWeb pages and then have that connect to the rest of the site so that it will show up in the same way it does on the computer or on the DVD?

If the original site is still online you might be able to embed it into an iWeb page like in this demo page: Embed a Site Within an iWeb Page. That way visitors can go to the original site without leaving your new iWeb site.
OT

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