Problem with website after uploading?

Question

I am using iWeb '09 to create a website. I already have an ftp server and a purchased domain name. When I upload the website to the ftp server, everything seems fine, but when I open it up, the most bizarre thing happens. My website shows up as an index with links the html files that are my webpages. When I click on them, my pages show up completely barren, with only the html. No shapes, no widgets, no color, no video, and all writing is in the same font in the same size. Here are two examples to show you what I mean-
http://www.everyonecanhelp.org/
http://www.101dreamcaster.com/
Thanks for a response,
Jack.

Answer 1

Welcome to Apple Discussions, Jack.
You are seeing the root directory of your assigned section of the FTP server. This happens for a few different reasons:
1.) You do not have an index.html file at the root level of your server directory (The index.html file is the index of your site. Without it your web browser just shows you what files are sitting on the server, rather than loading a page as without an index, it has no idea where to find anything on it's own.)
2.) Your index.html file is broken
3.) Your server is broken / configured incorrectly (or it was changed by your host recently)
4.) Your domain name forwarding / routing is not set to the correct location on the server
How to fix:
1.) Click on your site in iWeb and go to File > Publish Entire Site (This should overwrite all files on your server with the site).
2.) Remove the following files to the trash, restart the computer and Publish Entire Site again:
Home > Library > Caches
Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.iWeb.plist
3.) Make sure your FTP settings in iWeb are correct. If any of the information in the FTP window (especially the Path) is not exactly what your Host tells you to type in, it could produce the behavior we see.
4.) Make sure that your iWeb site is ok.
__Publish your Site to a local folder on your computer and open it.
_If it opens fine in your web browser locally then you know your site is fine. The issue is server side. Contact your host. I would suggest they remove everything from the server so you can publish your site again afresh. There may be a file that is corrupt and will not let itself be overwritten (which would explain why step 1 might fail).
_If they remove all the contents and you re-publish and the same issue occurs then they should make sure the forwarding of your domain name is going to the correct location on the server (unlikely given that it takes us to a directory on the server at all, but worth checking.)
Hope that helps.