Re: Directory structure for multi-page site

Your navigations and main product pages need to be in the main directory of
the website.  Some search engines will not "spider" any deeper. If the
webpages are not spidered, they will effectively not exist in the search
engines' databases.  I use subdirectories for buttons, graphics and shopping
cart pages.

You may also need to understand how the robots.txt file is used.  This file
sets up exclusion areas on the website like cgi-bin etc.  See
http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/norobots.html or search for
robots.txt

> I'm building a web site composed of a number of web pages, with image
> and sound files.  I'd like to put it in some sort of directory
> structure, so that all the pages and accompanying files aren't in one
> directory.  Which of the following structures would be best, in terms of
> allowing me to make changes without deleting files belonging to the
> wrong page for example?
>
> 1.  Putting each page and its accompanying files in separate directories
>
> 2.  Putting all pages in one directory, but with the image and sound
> files associated with each in separate directories
> 3.  Some other way of organizing them that you can suggest

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