Creating Your Own Website -
Organizational Tips

Website Organization

1. Keep your Website organized identically on your hard drive as you organize it on the Internet.
2. Keep files used on your index page and files used repeatedly in your root directory. But don't overload your root directory.
3. Create a subdirectory for each series of related pages.
4. Plan for expansion. If you think a page on a particular theme will expand into a number of pages, create a subdirectory for it.
5. Keep files that belong on each page in the same subdirectory (except those in the root directory)
6. Name your subdirectories and files in an easy to identify manner.
7. Don't change your subdirectory or file names (and html page addresses) after the fact. Name and address them now in a manner that you will be able to maintain in the future, no matter how much you expand. (Save us all from broken links!)
8. If you do have to change an address after your Website is up, then place a redirect page or link in the old location.

Courtesy of: Tracy Marks, M.A. | WINDWEAVER