URL/DOMAIN NAME QUESTION

Thinking of upgrading to iLife 6. When you create a webpage, can you create a clean URL, such as myname.com or does it have to be a part of another site such as apple.iweb/myname.com
hope that makes sense.
thanks

The name used in the URL is determined by the:
Name of the server
Name of the folder
Name of the html file.
Hosted at .Mac Homepage (iDisk) would either be:
homepage.mac.com/useraccountname
web.mac.com/useraccountname
followed by iWeb/ the name of the site (really a folder) and the name of the page.
If you host at other servers the syntax will be similar.

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