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Building a Website: Site Management Fall 2012 Introduction • Web page consists of a collection of varied files – – – – – HTML images CSS Flash movies Etc. • Must all work together – Broken link or missing graphic can interfere with the operation of entire site • A good site has – Eash to understand structure – Content is divided into logical sections with a prominent navigation bar Organize via Folders • One primary folder – the root folder – Holds all the site’s web pages, graphics, and other files used in the ssite – Root folder is subdivided into subfolders for better organization Site Folder -- home Typical Folder Structure Index.html contacts.html css global.css classified horoscopes features Index.html images 2004 2005 2006 img home global nav nav_store-f3.gif nav_store-f2.gif nav_horoscope_f3.gif.gif Guidelines for Effective site Organization • Plan for future growth • Follow the site’s architecture • Organize files by types – Create folders for each section of web site • Add folders for storing other types of files – Graphics, css, external JavaScript files, PDF files, etc • Create folder for graphics that appear on home page – Usually home page is visually distinct from other pages • Create folder for graphics that appear on other pages • For example – images_home folder – images_global that appear on other pages Guidelines for Effective site Organization • Use understandable names • Don’t use names such as 1a.gif, zDS.html, or f.css • Use names like site_logo.gif or directions.html • Be reasonable with the names this_is_the_image_that_goes_in_the_upper_right_corner_of_the_home _page.gif is probably not a good name • Be consistent FAQ • Why so many files named index.html? – If you type www.uncp.edu into a web browser, the browser goes to that location and looks for a file named index.htm, index.html, index.php. One of those files are not in that location you will get an error message. Otherwise you would have to type www.uncp.edu/filename.html – For example, my web page is at www.uncp.edu/home/lilliec/index.html To get to it you only need to type www.uncp.edu/home/lilliec/ Site Map • Local View: shows the files in your local root folder • Map View: shows a map of your site • Remote View: Shows files on the Web server in the remote root folder • Testing Server: used when creating dynamic database driven site Local View • Move or rename a file – Do this within Dreamweaver’s files panel, Dreamweaver will try to update all files that reference that name or location.