Web Sharing Not Working on External Computers

OK, here's my problem. I cannot view my websites on external computers (e.g. work computer, neighbor's computer, etc.) that I'm hosting on my Mac Mini.
I'm running a new Mac Mini with OS X Lion, with the latest update. I have Web Sharing turned on. I have my firewall on, but the options show that I'm allowing web sharing.
When I visit my site on my local computer, it works fine. I type my domain name in my browser, and it finds my website.
But when I'm on an external computer anywhere else I get this message:
Safari can’t connect to the server.
Safari can’t open the page “http://192.168.1.100/~vgadisciple/clan_vga/index.html” because Safari can’t connect to the server “192.168.1.100”.
I have tried various browsers. I have turned off my firewall. I have cleared the cache in the various browsers. I have made sure Apache is running via my Terminal. I have tried everything I can think off.
Why can't I view my website from any other computer besides my local machine? Please help. I'm tired of paying $200 a year to a company to host my website when I can do it myself.
Any help resolving this issue will be greatly appreciated.

OK, no one was able to help me. I realized what I was doing wrong.... and I should have realized it...
192.168.x.xxx IP Addresses are always local IP addresses, and computers on the WAN cannot acccess that via the hypertext transfer protocol. I should have known this, but Apple's web sharing was pretty clear that my 192.168 IP address would work, and I thought behind the scenes it would work out the details. But since OS X Lion is more like Windows ME than previous OS X versions, I shouldn't have assumed that.
To make it work, I subsititued my LAN IP address of 192.168.1.100 with the IP address from my ISP.
Then after that I logged into my router and I used port forwarding, named the port HTML and using port 80, via TCP, and forwarded that to my local 192.168.1.100 IP address. And now it works fine.
So for example, my URL, instead of being http://192.168.1.100/~vgadisciple/clan_vga/index.html, I substituted 192.168.x.xxx with my IP address given to me by my ISP, which is 98.203.xxx.xx.
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