Newbie Problem with Directories

[Guest]

I've created a website using FrontPage 2000 and the files are being uploaded
to our server by a third party, presumably via FTP (he exclusively has the
rights to the server, but doesn't have FP software; I believe there are also
no FP extensions).

While I'm in the FP software, in the navigation view the structure of the
website looks correct (in the "navigation tree diagram"), with it's home page
and various subdirectories.

However when uploading the files, the person uploading the site has told me
the sub-directories are not there. When I browse "My Web" on my computer I
see one folder for "images" and the rest are individual .htm files in the
main "my web" folder. Is this what I should be seeing?

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? ... At the end of the day, I essentially
want to have a site that would potentially have a webpage's address as
www.mydomain.com/abc/def/webpage.htm

Thanks in adavance for any help you all can provide!

 

[Ronx]

There are NO directories or subdirectories in navigation view. The
yellow or grey boxes represent individual files or pages that could be
anywhere in your web site.

If all your pages are in the root directory, then there will be no
folders, apart from images, _private and possibly _borders, _themes,
_derived, _overlay depending on how you constructed the site. There may
also be various folders with names starting with _vti_, these should
NOT be uploaded.

If FP extensions were present, they will now be corrupted by using FTP.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for that input- it was a huge help.

One more matter... Please advise if the below procedure is correct...

If from my "company" home page, there are supposed to be three
subdirectories- say "flowers", "food" and "colours"=> I should then create 3
seperate folders with these names under the root directory

For the "flowers" webpage => ** do I place the flowers.htm file in the
"flowers" folder or in the root directory? (note: I want the eventual web
address for this file would be: www.company.com/flowers.htm)

And presumably for the "orchid" webpage file meant to be in the "flowers"
directory (i.e. www.company.com/flowers/orchid.htm), should be placed in the
"flowers" folder-?


Thanks in advance for your patience with my lack of experience with this
program!

 

[David Berry]

Yes. Based on your sample URLs you would create the 3 folders, place
flowers.htm in the root folder and orchid.htm in the flowers folder

 

[Guest]

Thanks-- you guys have been a huge help!

Is is okay that the images inserted into each webpage (which in turn belong
to various subdirectory folders), have all been consolidated and located in a
single folder, "images", located within the root directory? Or would I need
to split them up and put each image in its appropriate subdirectory folder?

I've done the former and it all looks fine in preview mode, but I just
wanted to be sure.

Thanks again.

 

[Ronx]

That is fine. Either way will work. Placing images with the pages that
use them may make maintenance easier, but placing all images in the
images folder reduces the clutter in folders. Do whatever you find is
easier to maintain
As far as the web pages are concerned, as long as the images are in the
same website it does not matter where they are located.
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