Area 10 [archive] - BUILD YOUR OWN WEBSITE PART ONE

Initially, you will need to create a "Directory" on your hard drive, to house your website. In Windows 95/98, in Windows Explorer [select Start - Programs - Explorer, to locate initially] you highlight the drive where you want your website to live (usually C or D) then click on File - Folder - New, and type in the name of your website [eg ours is PHC WEBSITE, all in caps so we can locate it easily when using FTP to upload our pages].

Next you need to identify what areas you want on your site. We now have nine main areas (you might not need so many) - each of them has a separate sub-directory WITHIN the PHC WEBSITE folder.

* To create each of your chosen areas, highlight your website name (in Windows Explorer) which should be on the left hand side of your screen, and click on File - Folder - New (or whatever procedure you followed to set up your main housing) and type in the first area name. The seven main areas we started with mainly have three-letter titles - e.g. ifs = Infinite Facts Series, dir = Directory, acc = Accelerated Learning, etc. Stick with lower case for these as sometimes there are problems getting capital letters recognised in site addresses once you get up on the Internet.

Next, you need to create the graphics / sound folder for your first area. To do this you need to highlight the name of your first area (eg ifs) on the LEFT HAND side of your screen. If you're in Windows 95/98 you may find that the area name appears on the right but not yet as a sub-directory of your site name on the left. Click on the little plus sign which should have appeared immediately to the left of your site name, and the drop-down directory you have just created should appear.

Highlight your "area name" and then use File - Folder - New again [to create a folder which will come up as a sub-directory of your area name]. Select a name for this folder - I used Webimage (with a capital, but I didn't know much about the upper case / lower case problem to begin with, and mercifully there haven't been any associated problems) for ours, and have maintained this title ever since for our graphic files.

So, now, you should have (on the left of your screen) your site name with your first site area as a sub-directory of your site name, and Webimage (or whatever name you chose) as a sub-directory of your first area.

Next area: Go back to * above. You need to highlight your site name again in order to create another area within it. Follow exactly the same procedure for setting up your next area, and its associated graphics folder. And so on.

So - we'll assume you have now set up your seven (or however many!) main areas within your website. Now you have to choose where you are going to put your welcome page (the first "home page" that visitors to your site will see).

There are two ways of doing this. Either you can put it in another sub-directory of your main site (I did this and called mine simply "Penny" [no quotes] because I'd already made such a folder to test out my first hesitant steps at page-building). You can either do the same, create a sub-folder (eg call it "welcome") or you can build your welcome page/s at the top of your created site structure, by putting the pages directly into your site-name folder (within which you'll have to create a separate Webimage folder for the site-name itself).

If you choose to create a sub-folder (as I did) you will need to remember that you have to open that folder every time you need to FTP (upload) your welcome page/s to your site (usually each time you modify them). BUT that you won't have a comparable "folder" on the site itself.

To clarify this a little, you will (later) create a "mirror website" on the Internet to reflect the one you are beginning to create on your own hard drive. Usually you would "open folder for folder" (i.e. within your own hard-drive site on the left-hand side of your FTP program, and exactly the same folders on the right-hand-side of your FTP screen as you match the construction stage-for-stage). You will already have to "open" your site folder (on the left) to access its contents on screen (whereas the website version [on the right of the FTP screen] will automatically display the contents of the primary folder [whether that is your site-name folder or your "welcome" folder on your own hard drive]). It's a matter of individual choice whether you put your "welcome" HTML-pages into a separate folder on your hard drive, or just within the main site-title folder - regardless, you will not create a "matching" folder for these primary pages which open automatically as soon as you get into your FTP program (more about this later!).

For the purposes of these notes, I will assume you intend to create a separate "welcome" folder [and leave you to make the requisite adjustments later if you construct your site slightly differently]. This is not as complicated as it may at first sound!

So - now - you have your main site folder constructed, and your sub-folders (for however many areas you chose), each with its own accompanying Webimage graphics file. You are now ready to begin page-building.

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