IWeb / DW question

A friend of mine created a site in iWeb, which I am in the process of rebuilding in DW.
We're under an extremely tight deadline and I'm concerned about one very specific point.
I don't know much about iWeb, but when you click on one of his links, it brings up another page, but the URL at the top remains the same.
When I rebuild, and have links to other pages, that won't be the case.
However, since I'm hosting it somewhere else, with a different URL, it will say something different when you click on the link.
Since time is of the essence, and this site will only matter for a few more days (it's for a local candidate for a school committee election on Tuesday), it could look bad if the URL gets all funky with different addresses than the actual candidates. Yet we don't have time for him to turn the URL over to me for my control, as it would need to propogate.
He said that he can just point his URL to my new differently hosted homepage easily enough, however, when people click on the links, the URL will change.
Is there a workaround so that it won't?
Thanks a lot.
John

it seems like the previous designer was using domain masking. I would not recommend it for various reasons, but if "time is of the essence" then it may be a quick fix for you.

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Your problem is a common one when publishing to a non .Mac server but is easily fixed. Tom Gewecke has created a page that addresses this with the solution:
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/iwebchars.html
Tom has also set up a page with links to a lot of tips on using iWeb:
http://web.mac.com/thgewecke/iWeb/1/Tips.html
Others have also put lots of other iWeb tips in their web sites, you can search in this forum for those who have been most helpful and click on the link to their sites.
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Is removeing the app as easy as dragging the icon to the trash bin ?
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hi, i dont create web pages and never will, so can someone tell me if i can remove iweb 08 from my macbook air ?
See your last question.
IM new to Mac so i wanted to free up some space on my HD. Will removeing iweb harm my system ? will it free up a decent amount of space ?
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I apologize if this question has been asked, but it's late and I kinda was hoping there was a quick answer.
I have a small website, nothing spectacular, that I created and mess around with on occasion. I made it with iWeb, and published it to my .Mac account. I had a hard drive crash a few weeks ago, and of course, I didn't have everything backed up like I should have. Now, since the site and it's pages are up in my 'sites' folder, it's still online, but my question is this: After downloading that folder from my .Mac account, how do I open it in iWeb again? When I open iWeb now, it just starts up from scratch.
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I think I might be doing something wrong as nothing changes.
Also if I bypass the photo page template is it still possible to modify the settings for the slideshow window. I made these changes after I published the site to .Mac.
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