Saving - best practice question

[Niagara Mouse]

I have just started creating websites for clients. I have 3 on the go. In a
PC Windows XP environment I have created a folder named "Websites Clients"
and each website is a sub-folder under that folder, i.e.: C:/Documents and
Settings\…\My Documents\Websites Clients\FREDwebsite\index.htm.
The second website would be C:/Documents and Settings\…\My
Documents\Websites Clients\JOHNwebsite\index.htm, etc.
It that a good way to save them or could it cause problems, should they each
be in a separate folder under My Documents\FREDwebsite\index.htm and My
Documents\JOHNwebsite\index.htm?

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Where you put them is a personal work preference
- they don't even have to be in your My Documents or Documents and Settings\My Documents
- just as long as you don't use any spaces or punctuation in the actual web folder name

I personally do not like using the MS default location because of the length and spaces in the root folder name

They could be in say C:\ClientSites (or if you have a second drive D:\ClientSites)
- as FRED, JOHN, etc
-or as wwwDomain1, wwwDomain2, etc

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SBR @ ENJOY (-: [ Microsoft MVP - FrontPage ]
"Warning - Using the F1 Key will not break anything!" (-;
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|I have just started creating websites for clients. I have 3 on the go. In a
| PC Windows XP environment I have created a folder named "Websites Clients"
| and each website is a sub-folder under that folder, i.e.: C:/Documents and
| Settings\…\My Documents\Websites Clients\FREDwebsite\index.htm.
| The second website would be C:/Documents and Settings\…\My
| Documents\Websites Clients\JOHNwebsite\index.htm, etc.
| It that a good way to save them or could it cause problems, should they each
| be in a separate folder under My Documents\FREDwebsite\index.htm and My
| Documents\JOHNwebsite\index.htm?

 

[Ronx]

Your method will work, and you should not have any problems. My preference
is to create a folder in the hard drive root for web sites, and each site is
a folder in that.

C:\websites\FREDwebsite\index.htm
C:\Websites\JOHNwebsite\index.htm

This eliminates spaces in folder names, which could break links when
testing.
--
Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

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[Rob Giordano [MS MVP]]

In addition to what the others have said...you ARE creating them through FP,
not with Windows Explorer correct?
I like to check the stupid stuff first.

 

[Niagara Mouse]

Thank you all for your replies. Yes I am creating them with FP.