Personal domain - url issue

I used iWeb to create a site, and have a personal domain hosted by .Mac
The URL is http://www.MADinColors.com/Site/Welcome.html but of course I wanted it to be http://www.MADinColors.com
Is there any way to get rid of the /Site/Welcome.html part? Or does it have something to do with the way iWeb publishes the files and so it will always be like this.
Thanks for your help.

Hi Mary Ann,
It does have something to do with the way iWeb publishes the files and thus it will always be like this.
Unless you choose to use a simple WebForward with masking or cloaking instead of the CNAME. Then the url displaying would be www.MADinColors.com no matter what page your visitors look at (thus it never changes it stays this way and that's it). However it doesn't seem to be a good idea to me as people wouldn't be able to share or bookmark a specific page (it simply would bookmark or share the first page and people would have to navigate to the page of their interest each time).
Thus I would leave it the way it is.
Regards,
Cédric

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