Site Structure

Every Web site that you build or inherit should have a consistent and simple organization – called a site structure. A site is a collection of HTML files, documents and images contained in a single master folder (the root folder). Within this root folder you can save your documents and subfolders organized in a manner that makes sense to you, as well as to others in your department that may need to edit the information.

We recommend that the structure of your Web site include:

  1. A root folder that contains the Web site.

  2. A Web page entitled index.htm (or index.html) that resides within the root folder to represent the default homepage for the Web site.

  3. An images folder that contains the graphics, illustrations, images and photographs used in your Web pages.

  4. Additional folders for organizing your content.

 

 

 

EXERCISE 1 File Names and Site Structure

With your assigned group, create a site structure from the following list of files. Use the file naming conventions discussed earlier to rename the files, if necessary.

Mainpage.htm

MYPICTURE.JPG

footer.gif

Topic One.htm

Syllabus & intro.doc

Topic 2 presentation file.pdf

banner.jpg

topic two.htm topic_one.pdf

topic#2.mp3