Your Site Structure - files and folders

You can see the file structure of your site in a number of ways - in the file manager in the control panel, using an FTP utility (a file transfer program) or using the FTP part of a web editor (I use Dreamweaver)

1. Here is the site structure of files on the server (this is a single page site with 3 photos !)

All of your site files must be put in the PUBLIC_HTML directory only.

The other directories are only used by the server for storing site statistics. If you change these, your site statistics may not work - DO NOT change the other Directories.

2. This is a different view (in Dreamweaver), showing that the fields on my hard disk are identical to those on the server

Remote site means on the server

Local Folder means on my hard disk

3. This is a view of the Woodlands Web site (on my hard disk). The page you are reading now is called 3sitestruct.htm, and you can see that this has an address of :-

/manage/file struct/3sitestruct.htm

This is the address relative to the home directory. Your home page must be called index.htm and it must be in the home directory.

On the server, the home directory is public_htm, and this must contain index.htm

4. For good housekeeping, I am keeping image files in special 'image' and 'backgrounds' directories

I very highly recommend that you get a clear structure for your files and then keep to it. This is essential for addressing your files - or you will not be able to make links between files.

If you know what your file structure is, it is very easy to administer, either using File Manager in the control panel, or by using a file transfer program. (many HTML editors also have FTP utilities built in)

It is essential that you only use the public_html folder on the site for the files that can be seen by the public, and that you do not change any of the other folders on the server.

I find using Windows Explorer (details view) is the best way of organising the files on my own computer's hard disk