Please help!!! iweb 06 to iweb 08

i used iweb 06 to create my website months ago. i bought a domain too. everything seemed to be working fine. now that i have access to a new computer, i used iweb 08 to create a new website and when i publish it it doesn't go to the website. when i check in my .mac account the page says it's not working. does anybody know how to fix this???

I am in the exact same position, having upgraded from iWeb 06 to iWeb 08. The transition instructions are not very clear. Good luck to you, I am scouring and trying all the help and discussion threads.

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    apnewbie/cyclosaurus/roddy/old toad (and any others more knowledgeable than i):
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    joojy,
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    First of all, your original 1.1.2 site may not, in fact, have been overwritten. It is quite possible that the site remains in it's position on the iDisk, Web/Sites/iWeb/YourSite, but because you published to the iDisk (.Mac) from 2.0, a different index.html file has been placed in the root level Web directory which is causing the 404 error. Navigate to the directory on the iDisk, using the Go menu in Finder, and look to see what is actually there. Follow this path:
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  • PLEASE HELP!! I've used iWeb to create multiple sites, all published to third party servers.  The very last site I made changes to is showing up in any domain file I open - despite their different names and locations on my iMac.  I just switched to Lion.

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  • Please Help Publishing iWeb Website With ... ??

    Please help. This is so unfamiliar!
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    Also, someone said I need a "Bridge" that is Fetch??
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  • Please help with creating more diverse iweb blog entries

    I have a blog about sports memorabilia that I use iweb for: http://www.hoopography.com. I have come to a road block in creating blog entries. I have two issues:
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    I tuned the Place holder into a YouTube Video Widget, and it does display on the homepage, but it does not display as a video. It displays as a still image that the reader has to click on to access the entry and then play the video in the entry instead of playing right on the homepage.
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    I'm trying to replace an old website that was designed with Frontpage, with a new one designed with IWeb09. Every time I try to publish the new site, it publishes it to a subfolder. I read a few of the discussions, downloaded cyberduck, and deleted the old website files, but now I just get a blank page.
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    after updating My computer, my iweb is not opening...please help me get it back!

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