IWeb, iPhoto, .Mac Homepage, Photopages and Photocasts

I'm on the Apple dope since about 2003 or so...
Used to one-click publish photo albums from iPhoto that automatically went to my .Mac Homepage. This worked great.
Recently upgraded to a newer generation of iLife - Enter iWeb - and now have a web.mac.com page too. Cool. I even got a Photos page up there too.
The questions...
1) is updating and publishing to the .Mac Homepage from within iPhoto obsolete now?
2) if NOT, how can i continue to utilize it?
3) If i have previously built a photo page on my web.mac.com site using drag-and-drop, and i have a photocast link on my main "welcome" page, will people be subscribed to the page?
4) if it IS that simple, and i later edit the single photo page on the web.mac.com site by dragging another couple of photos to it and selecting "Publish to iWeb", will subscribed ppl get the updates?
Beavis2084

From the Apple .Mac website.... quite a while ago:
First: reassurance. The pages you've created and are publishing with HomePage are still available at homepage.mac.com/yourmembername and you can continue to use HomePage to create and publish new pages. But what iWeb makes possible is so good; multiple websites and multiple kinds of web publishing, all made extremely easy; you'll most likely want to take advantage of it.
Not a problem. You can use iWeb as your new .Mac web publishing center and keep your existing HomePage content alive in two different ways. The simplest (and we do mean simple) is to navigate to your HomePage pages in Safari and drag the urls into pages you're creating within iWeb. The link will appear with the name you've given the page in HomePage. When you publish, any links you've dragged in will take visitors to those pages.
The other way is also simple. Just republish the pages with iWeb. The same photo album you used the iPhoto HomePage button to publish can either be republished directly out of iPhoto again or dragged straight from iWeb's integrated iLife media browser. The photos will appear instantly. Just click Publish when you're done and announce the event to your audience.
Added benefit: The new slideshow that accompanies iWeb-published photo pages is an extra pleasure to view and use.

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