Website address changes

Question

This has happened a couple of times. I work on something or try to add new sites or whatever-- save & publish. Later, friends and family say they can't acccess the link I previously sent them. When I go check, iweb has renamed my site something else and added many % symbols and extra words. Then I have to email my address book with the new link. What a pain? How do I go back to my original website address?
Sorry if this is too confusing to understand. I hardly understand my own question!

Answer 1

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Those % symbols are what iWeb puts in place of spaces or other punctuation marks. Here's an excerpt from iWeb's Help file regarding characters to be or not to be used in web site names:
"Browsers convert spaces in site names to "%20." To avoid these symbols, use an underscore, hyphen, or some other character instead of a space. Also avoid non-Roman characters; many get converted to numbers when you publish.
Other characters aren't recommended for use in website names, including: forward and backward slashes (/ \), brackets ([ ]), tilde (~), exclamation point - !, question mark (?), "at" sign (@), number sign (#), dollar sign ($), ampersand (&), asterisk (*), colon (:), equal sign (=), comma (,), and double quotation marks ("). Using these characters may result in names with strange numbers in them.Browsers convert spaces in site names to "%20." To avoid these symbols, use an underscore, hyphen, or some other character instead of a space. Also avoid non-Roman characters; many get converted to numbers when you publish."
It's best to keep the site and page names without spaces and other punctuation marks.