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Currently there is no way to change the folder name that VisualSite Designer exports (Files > Export) or Uploads (Send) to. By default it will be a folder named "My_Homepage_Files".

So when viewing your page it may look something like: http://www.whatever.com/My_Homepage_Files/about.html

If you are unhappy with this, there are a couple options.

You will need the following:

HTML Editor. (CoffeeCup HTML Editor or Notepad will be fine)
FTP Client (Direct FTP if you don't have one)
Understanding of Absolute & Relative Links.

1. Get rid of the folder totally.

You can put everything in the root directory. (i.e. about.html, contact.html, etc. all reside in your main HTML folder. (www.whatever.com/about.html).

To do this, you would need to edit your index page(s). (index.html, index.htm, default.htm). If you don't have an HTML editor you can right-click the HTML file and choose Open With > Notepad.

In your front page, any links you have will be linking to that folder and will look something like:

<DIV class="Object1"><A HREF="My_Homepage_Files/Page1.html" >

You would need to take out the folder (My_Homepage_Files/) of the link. So it would appear as:

<DIV class="Object1"><A HREF="Page1.html" >

After you have done that to all the links in your index page(s), move all your HTML pages into your root directory.

In VisualSite Designer, choose Files > Exports and export the HTML to a directory on your Harddrive, then you want to FTP those HTML files (i.e. about.html, contact.html) into your main WWW folder. (For BlueDomino Customers it is: www.yourdomain.com/public_html)

Now, your index page is pointing to your sub-pages in the same directory that it resides in. (i.e. The links in index.html point to about.html as being in the same directory).

2. Rename the directory.

You would need to follow the same steps as above, but instead of removing the "My_Homepage_Files" in the path, you would rename it to the folder name you wanted. Then in FTP you would rename the folder as well. (i.e. FTP into your webserver, right-click the folder "My_Homepage_Files" > Rename to "site")

In your index page(s) your link should look something like:

<a href="site/about.html">