Good website design:
- File names should ALWAYS be lowercase with NO spaces and NO special characters
other than an underscore ( _ ) or dash ( - ). It is best to limit them to
eight characters, but not mandatory.
- The file structure you create on your local drive should be an exact mirror
of the file structure you will have on the web server.
- Lots of short pages grouped by theme or content, rather than one very long
page with everything on it.
- The main page fore the site, must be index.htm or index.html.
- Limit the number of graphics.
- Keep this page as a template so that you only change the contents and
the graphic, but the links remain constant. The idea is to maximize your
efficiency by making interesting changes while avoiding spending a huge
amount of time every time you update your index page.
- For secondary pages, if each page is in it’s own subdirectory, it is easy
to clean-up and modify.
- Every subdirectory on your site MUST have an index.htm or index.html file
to prevent directory browsing.
- PowerPoint projects that you convert into html should DEFINTELY be in their
own subdirectories.
- Graphics should be meaningful and add to the value of the site.