stupid question

island597 posted this at 23:42 — 20th July 2003.

Joined: Jun 2003

I'm making a web site on my harddrive prior to uploading to a host (I haven't decided on one yet. Bare with me, I'll try to make my question clear.
I'm "structuring" it as follows: under "my Documents" I have a folder for each subject, ie., books/music, art, sports, etc.
In each folder the main html document is named index, the other documents are named graphics, etc. for that folder.
In other words:
My Documents
Folders: art
html documents: index.html
html doc's: graphics
etc.,
etc.,

My question is: Am I screwing up? Is this going to be ok when I upload it to my hosting provider? Also, my home page is named index but is also in a folder, is that a problem?
Hope I didn't confuse anyone.
Thanks for any help.

disaster-master posted this at 00:46 — 21st July 2003.

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It is fine to have an index.html for each folder.

For example:

yoursite.com/index.html
yoursite.com/books/index.html
yoursite.com/books/bestsellers/index.html
yoursite.com/arts/index.html

And then you have your images folder:
yoursite.com/images/

Hope that helped.

The Webmistress posted this at 07:01 — 21st July 2003.

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When you upload the site your main index page must be in the root folder on the server and not within a subfolder

taff posted this at 11:50 — 21st July 2003.

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Another important consideration, if you're new at this, is to make sure that all the links between your files are all relative to each other, not absolute from the root of your hard drive.

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LostPuppy posted this at 17:19 — 21st July 2003.

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taff makes a good point... an easy way to do that is to load ur links from a JS file

also make sure ur host lets u use files and such, shouldn't be a problem but some free servers can be a b|tch that way.