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I made a website using iWeb and researched if i could host on a server other than .Mac. I finally found out you could and immediately bought a domain name and web hosting. I think my host just submitted my site to search engines, like Google either yesterday or tonight.
The problem is that when you click the link to my website on Google (or even if you manually enter the URL) it automatically redirects the webpage to www.examplesite.com/Welcome.html. I just want to display the welcome page on www.examplesite.com. I have lots of options in my web hosting panel, so i don't know if you can create an alias or something(??) or would i have to change the index.html every time? I have an index.html in the root and i have all the files for my iWeb website in a folder called mysite.com. Inside that folder i have another index.html(I think it's the same) and all the folders and html files to the other pages on the site. I don't care about other webpages being shown as the URL, I just care about the Main, Welcome page because I also can't even change the name of how it is displayed on the search engine without changing it in the title in iWeb(If the title was <title>Welcome</title>, it would also be the name of the tab on my website. If I change it to <title>Welcome to john's website</title>, the tabs would read:
Welcome to john's website Blog Podcast Photos Videos About Me
Instead of:
Welcome Blog Podcast Photos Videos About Me
It's VERY hard to explain but i really can't live without this being fixed since this is a frequently visited site for my friends and family.
Thanks In advance for any replies!!
EDIT: Well, I know for sure that I have to do something with editing Welcome.html or editing index.html because i might have to copy and paste the things from welcome.html into index.html. Because i think it's only redirecting becuase it has no actual "homepage" to go to. And since Welcome is the first tab and page on the list, it automatically redirected(I tested it and this is true! I removed welcome and let blog be the first page and it automatically redirected to the blog).
The problem is that when you click the link to my website on Google (or even if you manually enter the URL) it automatically redirects the webpage to www.examplesite.com/Welcome.html. I just want to display the welcome page on www.examplesite.com. I have lots of options in my web hosting panel, so i don't know if you can create an alias or something(??) or would i have to change the index.html every time? I have an index.html in the root and i have all the files for my iWeb website in a folder called mysite.com. Inside that folder i have another index.html(I think it's the same) and all the folders and html files to the other pages on the site. I don't care about other webpages being shown as the URL, I just care about the Main, Welcome page because I also can't even change the name of how it is displayed on the search engine without changing it in the title in iWeb(If the title was <title>Welcome</title>, it would also be the name of the tab on my website. If I change it to <title>Welcome to john's website</title>, the tabs would read:
Welcome to john's website Blog Podcast Photos Videos About Me
Instead of:
Welcome Blog Podcast Photos Videos About Me
It's VERY hard to explain but i really can't live without this being fixed since this is a frequently visited site for my friends and family.
Thanks In advance for any replies!!
EDIT: Well, I know for sure that I have to do something with editing Welcome.html or editing index.html because i might have to copy and paste the things from welcome.html into index.html. Because i think it's only redirecting becuase it has no actual "homepage" to go to. And since Welcome is the first tab and page on the list, it automatically redirected(I tested it and this is true! I removed welcome and let blog be the first page and it automatically redirected to the blog).