Managing your files and folders

Let’s create some folders

Step 1

Go to Start, select Computer and then Documents:

Step 2

When the Documents folder opens, go to New Folder. A little folder will appear. Name it HTML.

The HTML folder will be where you store all your files and other folders. It’s important that you create a separate folder as you will be going back to it to test your files and later to upload to the Internet.

Step 3

Open your HTML folder. At this point it should be blank. Now create one other folder: wpimages following what you did in step 2. Notice below, I have another folder too. You can create more folders as you go along. Keeping things organized is really, really important. You can waste lots of time trying to find your files.

Now you should be ready to create your webpage file starting in Chapter One.

Website Structure

While this tutorial is based on creating webpages, not necessarily complete websites, I do want to mention just a little on the topic.

First of all, your first page (or root), must be called index.html. It’s the top-level page–everything else is below. It can also be called other names (such as default or home), but index.html is the most common.

How to get a domain name, uploading your site to a host company and other issues are beyond the scope of this tutorial. You can find plenty of information on these topics by going online.

Here’s a simple website layout with index.html as the top-level page.

Table of Contents

Creating folders

Savings folders

Opening folders

Finding files

Creating folders

Saving folders

Site structure

Privacy Statement Managing Files

Create Folders

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Review #1 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Review #2 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Final Reivew