Hello,
I'm a newbie to this and am trying to organize the files of my site for use on S drive and another hosting service. Hope this wasn't answered somewhere else. By the way I'm using VSD. I have the main folder inside which are the page html files and a couple .swf files/xml file sets. Then there is a "files" folder containing everything else. I only have the main page done and wonder if I should be contructing separate folders for each page and labeling them with the page name? Also, how would I do that? Seems a little unorganized to have that big "files" folder with all the small graphics and the photo's I used in my photo gallery .swf/xml insert. Any help would be appreciaed as I would like to use this on another hosting service I already have, as well as S drive for my sharing/previewing.

Thank you!

Dnev

Don't monkey with the file structure that VSD creates. You'll break your site. Don't worry about how VSD organizes the files. Let it do all the grunt work while you sit back and enjoy all the free time you'll have because VSD makes sites so fast.

Dnev,
If you want, you can create a folder to keep all your site files together. Example:
"my website" (main folder) – Save your VSD site* to this folder. Also within this folder, create other folders for your images, documents... whatever else you need for your site. Now you'll have everything in one place, easy to keep track of.

*When you save your VSD site, it will create all the files it needs (.vnu, "sitename"_website and Files). You don't add anything to that Files folder (and don't separate your html pages). Just let VSD do its thing and all will be well

I am trying out VSD and loving it so far Building a site that will be a good size when done, have been nosing around the VSD file structure - I get it, but there are a lot of duplicate files being created for things that are 'common" throughout the site (headers, nav bar) - my 19 nav bar links became nearly 600+ files! (1) is there a better way for me to create the nav bar? (2) does VSD purge files that are no longer used? (3) every time I make an update to a page, do I have to re-upload the entire site? (I tried just uploading the revised html pages - no art/images/headers etc changed, but it seems the program re-writes -and re-named - all the image files associated with each page? does it work this way?) This will be a fairly large site with frequent editorial updates but much of the content stays the same - reuploading the enitre site every time is a lot of data. I ususally only upload new html pages, not all the art/images that are unchanged) Thanks!

VSD creates images of some of your content to make it render properly in all browsers. The one way to clear some of these files out is to do a files save as and save the site under a new name. Now resync the site and it should get rid of a few duplicates.

VSD has been designed to be simple for novices to use, and it creates its own NON STANDARD html code.

I am no expert , but my delorean site has about 40 pages, an update to one pages can take 3/4 of an hour to upload, or its seems that way, i think generally the edit itself is almost instant, it just spends extra time checking every other page for edits as well.

the photography site in my signature however is split into numerous identical sites, all appear to be as one, but its easier for uploading a new photo-gallery of client photo's that way.