IWeb slow publish

I'm curious about why iWeb publishes certain sites so slowly while others publish at a reasonable rate.
I ran across an article in this forum about a program called iWebSites that separates the different files and allows you to work with one at a time and save them as different sites rather than as divisions of the same file, which seems like it could speed up the process and help some of my iWeb lag issues. Does anyone know whether it's still usable with all the upgrades?
Also, I don't see any real answers to why iWeb seems to publish slowly since the Lion upgrade (honestly I don't know whether it's Lion or my interface with 1&1, my hosting site) and most of the more complete answers are from long ago. I was wondering whether there are ways to make it publish more quickly that I might not be aware of since I'm not very experienced (but am working to learn).
Thanks for any help!

What version of iWeb are you using? If you're using iWeb 3 then you only publish one website at a time so iWebSites is not needed. iWeb 2 publishes all the websites in the same domain file each time any site is published.
The sites that load more slowly: do then have more photos, movies and/or music files on their pages?
Users have reported the iWebSites does work with Lion. Also, in Lion the Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and hit the Enter button - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.
For opening your domain file in Lion for the first time or to switch between multiple domain files Cyclosaurus has provided us with the following script that you can make into an Applescript application with Script Editor. Open Script Editor, copy and paste the script below into Script Editor's window and save as an application.
Just launch the applicaiton, find and select the domain file you want to open and it will open with iWeb. It modifies the iWeb preference file each time it's launched so one can switch between domain files.
do shell script "/usr/bin/defaults write com.apple.iWeb iWebDefaultsDocumentPath -boolean no"delay 1
tell application "iWeb" to activate
Or you can download an already compiiled version with this link: iWeb Switch Domain.
OT

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Then, I have been
discarding all of them except for the folder of the
site I want to publish, which I have to name
"public_html" to conform with our domain provider's
requirements. This works great, except the RSS feed
is broken when I do this.
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Check.
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Check.
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Yes.
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Many thanks to responded to my question and sorry not to get back sooner.
Yes, I discovered by this unfortunate experience that the names of photos are a serious issue if the site is to ever go to an FTP server. Apple should discuss this carefully in their "manual".
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Hello,
I've created a website and now need to publish it to my university server to simply saving it in a folder. The problem I'm having is that the pages all need to be .htm not .html for some reason and I can't find a way to make iWeb do that...
Has anyone else had experience of using iWeb to publish in this way?
Cheers
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