Shorten Blog URL with iWeb 09?

With iWeb 09 is there an easy way to shorten the auto-generated site structures for blogs, yet?
From -> http://www. domain.com/blog/blog/blog.html
To -> http://www. domain.com/blog
If I publish to a folder and upload only the blog page directory, some navigation links are broken, and there I have to duplicate the blog.html file to rename as index.html. This is tedious for every blog update.

I just wrote an article about this. Check it out!
http://www.ehow.com/how4917516create-shorter-urls-iweb-mobileme.html
Note that the /Sitename/ part of your URL will still be there, unless you do some further tinkering. If you do, unfortunately you'd lose the blog comments feature.
If you don't care about blog/photo comments or RSS feeds, then it's easy enough to remove the /sitename/ part of your URL entirely. Simply open your /sitename/ folder in iDisk, and paste the contents into the parent directory (the "Sites" folder.) Of course, this won't work when you have multiple websites on iDisk.

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