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10 Essentials for Building a Solid Web Site:
Organization
Your site has to be organized. Keep
your ftp clean. We recommend creating as
many subdirectories as you can. Create one
for images, and create others for every other
page/department on your site. On this site,
everything is broken from large departments,
to subdepartments, to subsubdepartments,
etc.
If you leave everything in one or two
folders,
maintaining it will be an absolute
nightmare.
The more you update, the less organized
it
becomes. Finally, you'll get to the
point
where it takes longer to navigate the
server
than it does to create the updates
themselves.
If you move pages around a lot, use
absolute
urls (full urls) for your graphics
and other
pages. Yes, we all hate to use them
and they
usually take a while. But it's a lot
faster
to deal with absolute urls than it
is to
fix 50 broken links every time you
move a
page.
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