Problems with podcast information

Apologies if all of this is obvious, am very much a novice.
After a few problems, my podcast is finally up on Itunes.
http://www.jilt.org.uk/Podcast/rss_new.txt
Much to my frustration, however, there is:
i) no description
ii) no sub-categories
iii) no image ( this is confusing because the picture DOES emerge when you subscribe to it)
Would really appreciate any help. Is there any way I can address these problems without editing XML? I have done this through Iweb and basically don't have a clue how to edit XML although assume that it isn't impossible!

There's no point in your editing the XML because iWeb will simply over-write any changes you make next time you add an episode. You have to add the description in iWeb itself. There should be a place where you can insert text to appear as the description; and the categories are probably set in the page inspector. However I'm not very familiar with iWeb and I would suggest you ask in the iWeb forum where you can get a response from people who actually use it.

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