Updating/Editing Non .Mac Sites

I've created a website for my sister-in-law and am waiting for her domain name to get pointed to the server to which I've uploaded the files.
Presumably, it is way easier to make changes to active sites using iWeb. (Or is that the only way? The source text for my iWeb website is way too complex for using a text editor.*)
But must an updated/edited site be "published to a folder" every time, and then those files uploaded via FTP to the outside domain? Or do the existing files in my Sites folder get updated automatically when changes are saved in iWeb, thus making them ready for an FTP upload?
Presumably also, the edited files when published to a folder would overwrite any existing ones in the Sites folder. Yes?
*See http://web.mac.com/hap.allen

SIte is now up and running -- and I've uploaded an update just to see that it works. Thanks for your well-informed "Yesses."
1. Will the Users > Library > Application Support > iWeb folder hold more than one "Domain.sites2" file? Would each project be given a different name in that folder? I don't want to overwrite one web project with another.
Fortunately, I'd been reading elsewhere about that folder so that when iWeb asked me for a domain folder to open (and after a brief rush of poo-poo to the heart), I knew where to look. Using Preview in Leopard I was able to see that it was the one I was after.
2. Must any website projects I do be left in the column on the left of the iWeb window? If not, what files would I need to save so that I could open them in iWeb? Would I go to the above folder again to retrieve them?
Thanks for your help.
Hap

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