Recovering iWeb Files after replacing hard drive

I had 5 functioning websites on iWeb. In April this year I replaced the hard drive on my Mac. I definitely backed up everything onto a new external hard drive, but I can't find my websites on this hard drive and can't work out how to recover them. They are all still live however. Any help would be much appreciated, but please bear in mind I'm not really up on the tech talk, so if you could dumb it all down that would be great!
Thanks very much!

You need the 'Domain' file which by default lives in (user)/Library/Application Support/iWeb (note that this is not the Library at root level and may be hidden - see below*).
iWeb cannot import the HTML pages which are online, so if you are unable to retrieve the Domain file in which it keeps its data all you can do is to recreate the site from scratch, using the online pages for reference and as a source for the text and images.
If you have to do this you may want to consider not using iWeb, which is no longer supported and may well stop working with any upcoming system upgrade. Everweb is designed to be very like, and to improve on, iWeb and is well liked.
*Apple have hidden the user’s Library folder in Lion and above to casual viewers, in an attempt to stop new Mac users messing their machines up. To access it, in the Finder go to the ‘Go’ menu and hold down the Option (Alt) key; the Library folder will appear as a choice. In Mavericks you can make it permanently visible - open your Home Folder the from the Finder's View menu, choose show View Options and check Show User Library.

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