Using iWeb, Transmit & Nexcess

Ok, first of all I'm a self admitted moron. Well, at least when it comes to publishing my new website. Having said that, it seems like I'm close, but I've most likely screwed something up. Here's what's up - maybe someone can offer a tip or two.
1) I've created my website using the latest version of iWeb. Upon publishing it to a folder (I don't use mobileme) it seems to have all the functionality I'd want. I've got a lot of movies - QT's rendered with the H.264 codec. But again, it doesn't seem to be any issue with iWeb.
2) I got Panic Transmit today for my FTP Client. It seems to be working pretty well. I moved my iWeb Site files over without much fuss. I created a html folder and put all the iWeb stuff in it on my server side. I even moved the index.html file over and it sits separately. Maybe there are other files I'm not aware of that need to be written or moved? Not sure. I did a Transmit search on this forum and there was some talk about using WebDav vs. FTP, but I'm not sure if that's the problem. FTP seems like a pretty standard way to move files.
3) Nexcess, who is my chosen server provider has been a little slow allowing me access on their forum, so I thought I'd check here. Their FTP Client Tutorials don't include Transmit, but it seems pretty standard, so I looked at a couple others including Coffee Cup. It seems like I'm doing everything okay, but when I load up the url, I don't even get my "test site" page anymore. Just a 404 not found page.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. I'm almost positive it's something I'm doing wrong, as this is my first attempt at this and I'm pretty sure about one thing - I really don't know what I'm doing. After Effects is a piece of cake compared to this html stuff. I'll stick with post production and compositing. Jeez!
Here's the website if it helps to diagnose. www.guesthouseproductionsinc.com
Any help would be great! Thanks guys.
-Patrick
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Did you put both the index.html and the site folder into the folder you created on the server? If so that would make the end of the url to be: /folder_you _created/index.html. Is that what your URL is?
You might want to try uploading the index.html file and the site folder to the server sans the html folder you created. Just add them to your root directory on the server.

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