by Curtis Carmichael

Storing your project files in the most organized fashion is key to building and maintaining a successful Web site. Start by going to your primary hard drive, usually called your "C" drive. When there, click "File", "New", "Folder". A new folder will appear with the text "New Folder" highligted. Type in an appropriate folder name and hit your "Enter" key to continue. Some suggestions include simply "Web Site" or "www". If you store multiple Web sites on your hard drive, it will be more logical to name the folder in accordance to your site’s name so you can differentiate between other sites stored on your drive. You may be wondering what the significance of the folder "www" means. A similar folder will be titled "www" on your server’s account. This is where you will upload (or transfer to another computer) your Web site files.

You may find it helpful to create a folder titled "images" to store your graphics. It’s less tedious to find the file you’re looking for when it’s organized this way rather than looking through a directory containing both graphics and Web pages. When linking to graphics in the "images" folder, just create the extension "../images/yourfilename" where "yourfilename" is the name of your specific file.