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When you work with files on your computer, it is likely that you will keep files grouped together based on topic or project in folders. The same organizational philosophy applies to Web pages and folders; however, because they are often linked together, you need to have stricter standards in your organizational methods .
Folders in Web sites are used to keep files together in convenient locations so you can find them again later. Many people, for instance, will put all of their images in an "images" or "Pictures" folder so they know that's where those files will be. Having a consistent folder structure will make your site management a lot easier.
Many of the Site templates in FrontPage provide ready-made folders in which to store the different types of files you'll use (images, scripts, etc.). That does not preclude you from making your own folders. To do this, you can use the Folder List.
If a folder needs to be renamed , you can make short work of this task.
If, for some reason, you don't need a folder again, getting rid of it is a simple matter. Just make sure the folder is empty before you delete it!
When you use FrontPage, you will need to think of pages as simply more than a canvas to place your thoughts and ideas. You will need to treat them as objects that can be moved, changed, or deleted as you see fit.
Every Web page has a title, or should have. A title is not something that appears on the page itself, but rather will appear in the title bar of most browsers in use today. Titles give people a specific reference point beyond the hard-to-understand, abbreviated filenames that are used.
When you create a new folder, you will very likely need to populate these new folders with files that are already in your site. You could use Windows Explorer to move them around, or you could simply use the Folder List.
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The technique described in these steps can be used to move any file (pages, images, scripts, etc.).
For all of the Web pages that you do see as a visitor to a Web site, there are typically a number of pages you don't see. These hidden files are used for internal site maintenance and data gathering, to name a couple of reasons.
If there is a page on your site that you want to re-create in a slightly modified form, you can quickly make a duplicate of that page.
If you radically change a page's content or make a copy of another page, you may want to rename that page. Fortunately, this is really easy.
Sometimes, we need to weed out the garden to make the rest of the plants grow better. The same metaphor holds true for a Web site.
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