Personal Domain confusion

Ok, iWeb says you can use a Personal Domain name, and instructs you to first give them the name (ie: yourpersonaldomain.com), then to go to your registrar and "define web.me.com as the new CNAME (alias) for your domain". First off, shouldn't web.me.com include your personal user name in the information (ie: web.me.com/yourname) or something like that? 2nd, I am using GoDaddy and they don't have a "define your CNAME", but something which seems simpler: enable forwarding, where you can plug in your web address, and also a feature called Masking which hides the address. Very simple, except I can not get any of this to work. Any suggestions? Many thanks! Dave B

Dave B:
I have domain names thru GoDaddy and don't use the CNAME method. CNAME may have some benefits but since I have multiple sites that I have domain names for I opted to use the full URL for forwarding:
http://web.me.com/accountname/site_foldername/index.html.
Adding the index.html after the site folder name is optional. You could use the html file of the first page in the site if you'd like. The index.html in the site folder file just points to the first page of the site.
Here's a screenshot of the forwarding and masking windows and how I used it.
I had domain names before the CNAME was available in iWeb so never learned how to use it.
OT

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