Publishing from folder back to iweb???

I have designed my website on iweb http://www.alleyesonme.net.au . As i'm not IT
savvy and only been able to do a website as iweb has templates, I've been unsuccessful in finding someone to help me with a few issues.
I have noticed there is a masking effect when uploading my website from iweb to my personal domain using mac hosting. I then read some forums on how to get around this problem to show http://www.alleyesonme.net.au/tiaras/.html for example. This is imperative for google to find the site more easily.
I published it to a folder following the instructions. But now I have no idea how to publish from the folder back to my oneline domain/web hosting. Surely this is still possible using i-web, i have rung apple support and i've lucked out when trying to find someone who knows anything about i-web.

If you are hosting your site on MobileMe, then you do not need to publish to a folder at all.
All you need to do is to change the forwarding method to get what you want. Log into your MME account through either System Preferences and MobileMe or enter me.com at the top of Safari. Once logged in, go to the section where is says Personal Domains at the side. Enter your domain name here.
You then need to go to your domain name registrar where you initially set up your web forwarding and cancel this. Then go to the DNS settings and set up a new CNAME with your domain as the alias and forward to web.me.com as your host.
If you do this, your url will then be domain.com/sitename/pagename.
You do not need to publish to a folder to do this - this option is only needed if you want to upload directly to your hosting space if you have it, which you don't if you are publishing to MME and forwarding.
Remember to back up your domain file for your site which can be found under User/Library/Application Support/iWeb/domain.sites. You need this to be able to alter your site in any way.
The published version is just that and is only for uploading or testing your site - iWeb can't import so you do need your domain file.

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