ORGANISE YOUR FILES AND DEFINE YOUR WEBSITE

It is very important to be carefully structured with files and folders on your computer so that when you link up to the internet, your website can be easily located.

We will start by creating some folders (refer step 1) within which you will work on your computer hard drive - which is normally C:drive. Name your first folder (the root folder) using latin lowercase letters. Some browsers reject Capital letters.

In the illustration here, I have called my root folder julieweb. The name is not important - it will not be read by your website visitors; it is for you and the internet. In this context, think of the Internet as a travelling eye which has to be directed by the browser specifically to your site - and the only thing it can see is your Root folder and the index (home) page inside it.

Inside the Root folder, set up two more folders - one called pages and one called pix or images - the former to hold all your html (htm) pages and the latter to hold all your pictures and graphics.

Only one html page will sit outside these two folders inside your Root folder and that is your first page - technically we call it index but your visitors will usually think of it as your home page.

Place any prepared pictures or graphics (in gif, npg or jpeg formats) into the pix folder.
Save any html (htm) documents in the docs folder - with the exception of the index which must be the only document not inside the docs folder

*Remember PC file and folder names are limited to 8 characters so keep the names within that character count.

Open Dreamweaver an empty html page will appear and you should immediately Save As ‘index’ into your Root folder.

Now you must define your site