IWeb won't open .html file

Greetings,
I recently upgraded from a G5 running Tiger to an Intel iMac with Leopard. I have several basic web pages that I used to edit using the ancient Classic app, Claris Home Page.
Now that I can no longer run Classic apps, I thought I'd give iWeb a try. I right-clicked an html file and selected Open With. In the dialog box, iWeb was greyed out, so I switched from Recommended Applications to All Applications. Then, when I selected iWeb, the app gave an error message saying it could not open a .html file.
Umm, isn't that the point of the app, or is this thing designed to create some sort of proprietary file format specific for use with MobileMe?
BTW, after this, I was unable to launch iWeb directly from the Finder because it would always try to open that same file again, resulting in the same error. I had to trash the prefs files and empty the trash before I could open iWeb again and get to that opening template page.
Help? thanks
Dennis

When you create a site in iWeb it saves it in its own special format in a file called 'Domain' in ~/Library/Application Support/iWeb. When you publish, to MobileMe, to a local folder, or to another server, it creates the html, css and other files on the fly and uploads them to the server. When you want to edit, you open iWeb, it reads the Domain file, and you edit as necessary and re-upload. If you want to edit the site on another computer, you have to copy the Domain file to that computer and open it in iWeb. You cannot re-import the published html files and edit them in iWeb, nor edit html files made in another application.
To do that you could use Kompozer (free).

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