Problem with a subfolder

Question

I have been using iWeb to create and maintain fairly simple web sites.  One of them is http://www.getalifesports.com and up until recently everything has been working fine.  Recently I noticed that if I type the website name into the Safari address bar instead of going to the main page it goes to one of the sub pages.  I contacted Go Daddy (where it's hosted) and they told me that somehow iWeb has created a sub folder called Get_a_Life_Sports that contains duplicate files of all the files in the main web site area, and there is also a re-direct of some kind sending people who type in getalifesports.com to that sub page.  Any ideas why this might be happening?  Looking at another web site I do for a friend, it looks like it is also doing the same thing, except without the re-direct.  That web site is http://www.sandysbigbear.com.  When I bring up that web site, it shows http://sandysbigbear.com/Sandys/Main.html so it looks like the sub folder Sandys was created.
Looking at the Site Publishing Settings it looks like the sub folder is named whatever I have in the Site Name field at the top of that page.  Maybe I set it up wrong in the first place, not being familiar with iWeb.  Basically I want all files to live in the main folder area, so in Sandy's example it should look like this: http://sandysbigbear.com/Main.html with no sub folder.
Any ideas what I need to do to fix this?  Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Sometimes iWeb can be pure magic.
To quote robert A. Heinlein :
“One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.”
Instead of calling GoDaddy, read this
     The concept of iWeb Sites
A Site, which is just a folder, is a convenient way to organize your pages based on topic, subject or whatever you choose to keep relevant pages together. I’ve been doing that for the past 17 years, and I find it rather natural.
But since iWeb is doing it, it seems to confuse & frustrate people. iWeb shouldn’t do it, they say. As if there is a law that demands it.
To avoid the Sitename in the URL, read my solution. It's very technical but in the end it saves time. And best of all, iWeb is not involved :
     Avoiding the iWeb Sitename in the URL
An easier, time-wasting, solution is to publish to a folder on your desktop.
Open that Site folder and move the content of that folder to the root of the webserver with a FTP application.
(The root of a webserver is where the file or folder, shown immediately to the righthand side of the domainname, is stored.)
Everytime you make changes to a page, you have to repeat these steps.
But the result is what you want.
And here's a re-post with some additional info about using an index.php file to avoid overwriting the index.html file iWeb creates :
    Avoiding the iWeb Sitename in the URL
Works on all servers. With or without a subdomain I may add. Like this one :
     http://wyodor.byethost8.com/htdocs/index.html
Not as easy as publishing to a folder, but in the end it saves time. Again.
See this post that explained the link above :
Re: iWeb keeps populating a site name at the end of my url.  Causing error.