IWeb ads "site" to my domain

Ilike iWeb. It's easy to use and makes me feel more powerful and artistic than I really am. :-) A sign of any great software. However I don't like the way it appends my domain from http://XXX.XXX.com to http://XXX.XXX.com/site.
It really bugs me for some reason. I've been to many sites that claim to have been made with iWeb and they don't show the "site" at the end of their url.
Is there any way to hide this or change it to reflect the current page of the site a reader is on? Maybe it's a limitaion of my domain host?
Any insight would be appreciated.
Thanks.

What's the URL of your site so we can examine it first hand? If you're using CNAME domain name forwarding that's what you'll get: http://www.domain_name.com/Site_Name/Page_Name.html. There's no easy way around it.
You could use standard URL domain name forwarding with masking which would give you http://www.domain_name.com for all pages.
However, there are drawbacks to using domain name forwarding with masking:
Visitors can only enter your web site via the first page.
Visitors can only bookmark the first page of your site.
If a visitor refreshes a page they will be taken back to the first page of the site.k
Search engines will only be able to use the first page of your site for indexing and rating your site.
Your site will be somewhat isolated from search engines and visitors. Once you get visitors to your site with the simple domain name, what's in the URL window is superfluous. Visitors will pay more attention to a well designed site with contents that they are interested in rather than what's in the URL field of the browser.
You can get rid of the site name if you publish your site to a folder on your hard drive and upload just the contents of the site folder to your root folder on the server. With MobileMe that would be the iDisk/Web/Site folder.
With some 3rd party hosts, like HostExcellence.com, when you get a domain name the folder to which you upload the site will be named the same as the domain name. This page explains how it works with HostExcellence: Using HostExcellence - iWebFAQ.org
If you're currently with MobileMe you know that MMe will be discontinued on June 30 of next year. With that in mind this may be of interest to you: #23 - Life After MobileMe
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Original Poster has
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