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If you don’t carefully plan the organization of your
webpage files, you WILL end up with a messy tangle that will
complicate things as your web page grows in size.
Before you begin making a website, make a folder on your
computer that is named after your website. Call the folder
“mywebsite,” or whatever your domain name is.
Inside this folder, make several subfolders which will hold
all of the pages and images you’ll be creating and using.
At least make an “images” subfolder and a “pages”
subfolder. All of the images you will use will go into the
“images” subfolder, and all of the pages you make
will go into the “pages” folder. Your index.htm
file will be the only file that will NOT go into a subfolder.
Whenever you find an image you want to use on your website,
FIRST put it into the “images” folder. Then go
to Dreamweaver
and insert it into whatever pages you want.
When you first connect Dreamweaver
to your hosting account, select everything inside your “mywebsite”
folder and upload it. (Do not upload the “mywebsite”
folder—just its contents, i.e. the subfolders and your
index page, if you’ve already created one.)
If you go with lunarpages
hosting, when you connect to your space on lunarpages,
you'll see a folder called "public_html."
This is where lunarpages
wants you to put your website homepage (index.htm) and subfolders
(images, pages, etc.)--so upload everything that's inside
of your "mywebsite" folder from your personal
computer into the "public_html" folder on lunarpages.
If you're connected to lunarpages
correctly, in Dreamweaver's
"Remote View" you will see a "public_html"
folder that contains an index.htm file and "images"
and "pages" folders, which you've uploaded (put)
there.
FYI, other hosting companies may not have a "public_html"
folder—instead they'll have a folder called "www"
(or something like that) where you're supposed to upload your
stuff.
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