Part 5
Housekeeping – The Golden Rule
Now before we go creating anything – there is an area that I would like to go over with you. It is just as important as anything else you do here.
I want to talk with you about housekeeping. This is something many people do not do and they then find themselves searching around on their computer because they don’t remember where they saved their information.
This can lead to frustration and also take some of your time up with what it is you are trying to achieve. It causes you to lose focus and we don’t want that to happen.
So…
Let’s just go through this very quickly and then we can continue to move forward.
Remember – this is just as important - so - get into the habit of doing this!
Doing this will help you to stay more organized with the project you are working on and help you locate all your files with ease and avoid you having to search everywhere on your hard drive for the information you will need for your project.
So in other words – everything you want to use for your website MUST be saved IN THE SAME FOLDER.
Things such as your images, your index page, your thank you page, your download page and other pertinent information related to your work.
Don’t worry here – you will discover what all these things are in a few moments time from now.
Let’s go and create a project folder first so we have a place to save all our work.
On your desktop – right click your mouse. You then select “new” and a sub menu appears. In the sub menu – select “folder”.
You then rename the new folder with whatever the name of your project is.
For example: In my first ever project – I renamed it as “www.mywebsite.com”.
Remember – keep ALL your images and files that pertain to your project - in your project folder.