When you are creating web pages it is vital that you keep all of the files, including the web documents, images, and any downloadable files, all in the same folder. To avoid any confusion when we start to upload files, a system has been created to help you organize your files on the hard drive and your Zip disk.

On the hard drive

If you have not yet received your Zip disk at the Summer Symposium or are wanting to duplicate this method at your personal computer at home or school, you will be using the hard drive. It is best to create one main folder and then place everything you do in subfolders within it.

On a disk

Using a Zip disk is your best bet if all of the computers you will be using have a Zip drive (as they do at SDSU). Floppies can also be used, but could fill up with files very quickly. Regardless of which type of disk you use, you should name it (click once on the title of the disk right below the icon). This will allow your recognize it instantly later when you acquire more and more disks or folders on your hard drive.

How to....

1. The first thing you need to do is create a new folder go to file on the menu bar and down to New Folder (command N). Name your folder accordingly (i.e. My Stuff, Dan's Stuff, etc.). You want to make sure that the folder is located on the hard drive or disk, not the desktop (it can be easily and accidentally erase, moved, etc.).
2. Double click on the new folder and add two subfolders called raw materials and your school name.
3. Now within the school name folder, you should create two more folders called Lastname (yours) and ProjectName (the name of your project). These names should be unique to you and have no spaces.
4. Finally, you should create images folders in the Lastname and ProjectName folders. This where all of your images will be located. The folder hierarchy should look similar to the image on the right.

Folder Descriptions

• Raw materials - while you are out on the Internet you may be saving graphics, files, or even applications for later use. Some may make their way into your web page, some might not. In order to keep the server free of clutter and unused files, you should save everything here and move it to your web folders later.
  
  
• School name - this folder will contain everything that you will be uploading to the server. Do not include any file that you are not using as a part of your web page. Remember when you are using Claris Home Page, you can grab an image out of your raw materials folder and consolidate it later (which will actually make a copy and put it in your images folder).
  
  
• LastName - this is the folder where you will be storing your personal home page and any other personal files that you will be posting on the Internet.
  
  
• ProjectName - all files related to your project will be stored in this folder. If you are working with a group, this folder will contain your portion of the files.
  
  
• Images - all images should be located in the appropriate images folder. If they are not, the images might not get uploaded correctly and once the pages are on the Internet the images will be missing. This can occur even if they appear to be working on your computer when you are writing the page (* consolidating your page will fix this problem).