Using FTP clients to publish to iWeb

I understand fully that:
http://web.mac.com/YourMemberName/iWeb/SiteName
is the url for my iWeb site.
My question is how does that translate into the typical required login information of ordinary FTP clients such as Cyberduck?
I have tried many combinations of server names, user names, paths, passwords and NOTHING will get me logged into my iWeb site with an FTP client.
The "Publish" button in iWeb works fine, but for various reasons, I would like to access the site with an ordinary FTP client.
Thanks in advance for any help with this. I am a newbie to Mac and OS X, but have 20 years of serious experience with the MS juggernaut
windowsrefugee

Like Tom mentioned, your iWeb site actually resides on your iDisk...and transfers to and from your iDisk are accomplished through the webDAV protocol instead of FTP. Goliath is a webDAV client. You can also accomplish an "upload" to your iDisk just by mounting your iDisk to your desktop (Apple-Shift-i) and then dragging and dropping whatever you want to transfer. Windows also supports webDAV, so the dragging and dropping transfers will work there, too, after you mount your iDisk as a network drive.
In terms of the URLs to use, the basic URL for your iDisk is as follows:
http://idisk.mac.com/username
This and any other iDisk URL should prompt for your .Mac username and password.
You can also specify exactly which folder you want to access by appending the appropriate foldername to the end of the basic URL.
As far as how all this fits with iWeb, consider the following example...
http://web.mac.com/username is quasi-equivalent to http://idisk.mac.com/username/Web/Sites/index.html
...Except that it would prompt you for your .Mac username and password. This would be an interesting and alternative way to password protect your site if you wanted to do it with your .Mac user/pass.

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