SUMMARY

SUMMARY - IDEAS - EXAMPLE
If new ideas are starting to dance in your mind, good. Anything is possible. But be careful, because organization can lead into some complex thinking. No matter where the file is at, you must describe the correct path so the computer can find it. If your "site" works on your computer, but not on the "web", chances are that a file was uploaded into the wrong directory. If so, your HTML code instructions are telling it to look in the wrong place. This is a very common problem.

And most tutorials on "organization" will agree, that changing your system AFTER you have started is the most bothersome. You will lose photos, links and pages when they are moved. Yes, it is "merely" a task of changing your instructions (html) to find the data again, but quite tedious to remember, find, and change perhaps hundreds of files.
If you are just starting, or thinking about some re-organization of your data, take time to read this great tutorial about file management. Short, but to the point. FILE MANAGEMENT

Whatever the system, it will be one that works for YOU, because you are the one using it. How about one main folder for all Images? Then add sub-folders, such as photos, clip-art, and scanned documents. Maybe further sub-folders for photos by family. Be clever, without being over complex. The more you have, the more you must be sure to upload into the proper folder.....and eventually creating an identical system at your web server location. If the files are where you put them, and the code is correct to find them, everything will work.

And don't be afraid to experiment. Make test pages. Lots of them. Once you get your name and photo on a web page, copy and save the html under a different file name and start to play. Change the text and font and color, add background color, or anything else you can create or design. Don't like it? Delete! If you like the new look, modify your original file, then upload the changes. It's an on-going challenge that can be enhanced with a few strokes of the keyboard. Unless, of course, your intention is to design the most awesome site ever to hit the web, and not a single page will be published until it is done.

Used wisely, "graphics" can be an important and interesting part of web page design. Learn how to optimize a graphic for use on the web (avoid items that are HUGE in KB size, which frustrate the viewer). Use graphics as links, or, link to your graphics. Use them as page backgrounds, or backgrounds in tables. Learn to use thumbnails for an album presentation. HTML is also a "part" of graphics, because it allows you to position or size your graphic, place text above, below, to the left, or right, of a graphic. Or, place text right on top of the graphic. Now that you know "where they are", learn new tricks as to what to do with them. Have fun with graphics.

Here is another lesson, but expanding on the concepts learned so far. If you're ambitious for such a system, set it up and practice. You can do this using only our 4 original files. The only thing different would be to set up a few new sub-folders, and move some files. Sorry, I do not provide any samples for this one.

In the above example, you would be writing the HTML to display photo Pix2.jpg on the 3rd page of a web site (Page3.html). Your have to "get out" of one folder, then go forward to several sub-folders to find the photo. Good luck.

For those people hoping to make genealogy contacts and perhaps discover lost relatives, get your index page made up, and post it. One little page, nothing fancy. Put your family name out and available on the internet for people to see. Who are you? Where are you from? Maybe some surnames. Briefly explain what you have, and that your family history is soon to follow. Make sure you include an e-mail contact. A simple page that will enter the Rootsweb Freepages Directory, and, be picked up by the search engines. This introduction may just be seen by some distant relatives trying to find YOU. Continue designing, and upload the pieces as you go. Digging for ancestors can be frustrating, at least try to have some fun presenting what you have.

I hope this tutorial, or even a small part of it, has helped you understand the concepts of making folders and finding graphic files within the folders.

Now you know .... "WHERE ARE MY PHOTOS"?

Congratulations to all as you succeed with your new title of "Webmaster".

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