Many thanks Gerald, that was indeed the problem, I had already tried removing site and starting again, however things were indeed left there. It now works. One further question - is it possible to publish direct to the site ie www.summerstars.co.uk rather than to a username ie www.summerstars.co.uk/~mdhills ???
ftp to the domain using a siteadmin's user id and pwd, specify the remote directory to be /web - if you are a user, /web is the ~mdhills directory, if you are a siteadmin, that same folder is /user/siteadmin-name/web
/web to a siteadmin is the real McCoy. Jale