IWeb '09 - Simplify URL

I have a commercial domain, we shall call it "domain". www.domain.com
In iWeb, the "site name" is also shown in the URL when published. This looks awful. Sure I could shorten to a single letter or number, but surely there must be a way to conceal this?
How do I get iWeb to sown the domain and then the specific HTML file. For example:
www.domain.com/index.html
www.domain.com/images.html
etc...

All hosting services are not created equal. A lot of them require that you upload to a pre existing folder. In this case, if you want to upload more than one site, you have to upload the whole folder and accept the folder name in the URL.
To avoid this you can switch to a hosting service that allows multiple dedicated IP addresses in one account.
I use Host Excellence and this company allows me to create a folder for each website and name it the same as the one produced by iWeb. The contents of the local published folder are uploaded.
Entering - domain.com - in the browser will take you to the Home page.
You get what you pay for and the account that I use allows 15 dedicated IP addresses for about the price of a MobileMe subscription.

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I had the same issue. I'm using iWeb -> Fetch (FTP) -> Godaddy (hosting).
Here's what to do:
When you publish to a folder, iWeb creates 2 documents: an index.html file, and a site folder (whatever your site is named in iWeb).
If you upload the index.html + site folder you get the double domain name.
If you upload only the contents of the site folder (and not the separate index.html file), you get the simple URL, what you would like.
Using Fetch and Godaddy, I open the Site folder created with iWeb that has all my web files in it, select all, slide them into my Fetch window, and they all upload at once to Godaddy. This has been working for me without a hitch. If I want to update the site, I slide over a new set of contents, and the new ones simply replace the old ones.
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