Total iWeb Frustration

I admit, I am not a computer or software wizard. I have spent all weekend trying to put back together a couple of web sites. But the combination of iWeb no longer being supported, upgrading to 10.7, and moving my sites away from Mobile Me to 1&1 has me so flummoxed I am about ready to find a cliff to jump.
Here is the story:
I have a web page I created in iWeb with several sites. I have tried both publishing to the local folder as well as to the FTP Server. I have moved all of my sites to individual domains.
I spent much of the weekend trying to figure out the online directions on how to shorten my web address to just www.handsoftheshepherd.com, but every tutorial or written directions are just too complicated. So I guess I will live with just www.handsoftheshepherd.com/main
I can get my main page to publish online, but cannot get the links to the other sites(domains) to work. No links to the other sites work. I am not sure if the formating is correct, or if soemthing else is wrong. And I read online that the idex.html is important, but I don't understand what to do with them.
What is so maddening is that iWeb used to be so dang user friendly. And now I can't even get a my web page online. Nothing online, either written or in video, helps me. I just wish someone could talk me through this. Then I would have it.
I hate the thought of spending the time to move all of this to Rapidweaver.
Sorry, just had to vent.
Tom

Its probably a lot easier to understand what's going on with the files on the server if you can actually see them. An FTP application allows you to see both the local files and the remote ones...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Search-Engine-Optimization/Upload.html
iWeb produces a folder and an index.html file. If you upload both to the root folder on the server you will get the folder name (which is the same as the site name in iWeb) in the URL like so...
http://www.domain-name.com/SIte-Name/Page-Name.html
There's also a copy of the index.html file inside the folder so you can upload the contents - rather than the folder itself. See this page...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/URLs-Favicons.html
The index.html file produced by iWeb is just a redirect to the "Home" or "Landing" page of your site which is the page at the top of the list in the left column of the iWeb window.

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