Files & Folders Summary

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Links

There are two kinds of links: relative and absolute.

Relative Links:

Front Page keeps all your files and folders in a single folder called a web. 

• For linking purposes, all the files in this web are relative files, and require only a file name for linking.  (Example: curr.htm is the name of a file)
• A file located in a subfolder such as the images folder, then the link location will include the folder name followed by the file name.  (example: images/WIT-2004-Logo.gif)
• When a Web is published, all the files and folders are copied to a server.  The location of the files in relation to each other remains the same.
• If you insert an image located outside your Web folder into one of your files, FrontPage will embed the file and prompt you to save it inside the Web folder whenever you save the file you are working on. Be sure to save it inside the Web folder.
• If you link to a file outside your web folder, this file outside the Web folder will not be published.  Any link made to this file will not work on the server because the file will not have been published to the server.  Make sure you link only to files inside your Web folder.
• Keep your files organized.

Absolute Links

• Absolute links are made to files identified by URL's, which tell the browser exactly what server and folder to look at for the file.  They are identified by an exact address (the URL), which allows the browser to find the file and present it.

File Names:

 as a matter of courtesy.

• Make them short.
• Use only lower case letters.
• Don't use symbols.
• Don't use spaces. (you may use _ or -.)

Image files

•  Only .jpg, .gif, or .png image files are acceptable for use in web pages.

Page files

• Must have a proper extension, such as .htm, or .html.  Front Page adds the the .htm automatically when you save your file.
• Browsers open the index.htm or the default.htm file first.  If neither of these are in the folder, it will present a file list.

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