Iweb not loading properly to server?

Question

Hi I have used Dreamweaver in the past but decided to try iweb this time. I built a site www.southernlakestravel in iweb and have both published it to a local folder for safe-keeping and also to my webserver (2day.com) . I have also tried to ftp the site in dreamweaver. My problem is that all the fites load onto the server (whether published directly from iweb or via dreamweaver ftp) BUT I can almost never get the navigation bar to show up - just appears as a little dot on the top left side. I also note a lot of the images are not loading properly. If I resize them in photoshop to fit then it seems to be more secure. When I look at my files serverside and remoteside I have the folder name, the index file then the subfolder name with all the page files and a second index file and the script files. I notice that the script files include a js navigation menu. Is there a problem with the heirarchy of these files and whether the main index page can "pull these". Should the server be looking to document or root folder. I am at my wits end to know what to do. I can click on links between pages (click on activities in the above page and then go to some of the links shown), but basically the pages load without the iweb style navigation menu showing up at all and with many of the photos only half showing. Also, why does it become southernlakestravel/southernlakestravel?
I am about to give up on iweb.
Meg.

Answer 1

You have the double domain name because the second one is your site name - you gave your site this name in iWeb and you can change it to something shorter and more suitable and then this won't happen.
As you have seen, it is the way that iWeb works - when you publish to a local folder, iWeb produces a site folder with a separate index.html file - there is another index.html file inside the site folder itself so what you need to do is upload the site folder to the root folder and then you upload hte separate index file that will sit outside the site folder and point in towards it.
The iWeb page template navigation menu is javascript based and sometimes if there is a black dot, this means that all the files are not being uploaded to the server correctly.
It would suggest that you publish your site to a local folder and then view your site by opening the html pages and seeing if there is a problem there before you upload your site.
i would then suggest that you then use something other than Dreamweaver to upload your site - download Cyberduck for free - this is a dedicated ftp programme and may be better than Dreamweaver for uploading. With Cyberduck, you can see exactly where everything is being uploaded to.
In the end, if you really want to eliminate your site name, then you can - you just need to upload the contents and the contents only of your site folder.  This means that you will not need the extra index file - simply select all the contents of your site folder and upload these with the index file that is in there already.  If you do this your url will just be http://www.domain.com/page name.html without the site name at all.