Publishing via FTP server

Question

I have now shifted my webpages from Mobile Me to a local web hosting service, and need to know how I go about uploading them to this new server in the way that was advised on a recent post: "When you FTP up the files, instead of FTP'ing the index file plus folder it generates, you FTP up only the contents of the "inner" folder (which also includes an index file). This creates the standard URL without repeated words. The whole process is simple - publish iWeb to a folder, FTP contents of inner folder." Please help!

Answer 1

When you publish to a folder from iWeb what you will get is a Site folder and a separate index.html file. Whatever you named your site within iWeb will then be the name of your Site folder - so if you called your site Site or S, then your site folder will then be called Site or S. Your site folder contains all the relevant html and CSS documents that you need for your site - so if you have a Welcome page then you will see a page that has Welcome.html, plus another folder that has Welcome_files. This contains all the CSS info - this being what your pages look like.
If using iWeb 08 you would publish to a folder and then use an ftp programme such as Cyberduck/Fetch to upload both your Site folder and separate index.html file to your server - these are placed in whatever folder your host has designated for you, mostly public_html. This means that your url is http://www.domain.com/sitename/pagename, but it does mean that RSS feed will work if you need it to.
The other way of doing this is by publishing to a folder and then using Cyberduck to upload just the contents of your Site folder rather than the whole folder itself. This means that your url will then be http://www.domain.com/pagename, but your RSS feed will not work like this.
If you are using iWeb 09, then for the built in ftp, what you need to do is place public_html into the directory/pathway setting and this should work. This should then upload the whole of your Site folder to your public_html folder on your host.
If you just want the contents of your Site folder and not the whole folder itself, then what you can try is to name your website within iWeb public_html and then place public_html in the directory/path and then if your sitename in iWeb is the same as your host/server folder then just the contents will be uploaded to your host and not the whole site folder - then your url will be http://www.domain.com/pagename.
It is not really that complex when you break it down.