Newbie Web Design Question

2337lover · #1 January 13th, 2003, 02:46 AM

OK folks, I'm trying to set up a website for the very first time so bear with me.

I'm using Frontpage 2002 on XP Home.

I know that the main page has to be named index.htm for the main domain www.abc.com (fictional) to show up. On that page I have an enter button which takes you to www.abc.com/home.
On this page I have link to other sections of my site. My trouble is that I don't know how to set it up so I can get into different sections in one sections (does that make sense)?

For example, I want to know how to set it up so I can have a page like this... www.abc.com/pictures/2003/march.

Instead of this...
www.abc.com/pictures
www.abc.com/2003
www.abc.com/march

I hope this makes sense!!!

2337lover · #2 January 13th, 2003, 02:49 AM

I totally forgot about the ABC tv station when setting up my example. So, if you click on the main link you will go there!!!

**degsy** · #3 January 13th, 2003, 03:19 PM

I haven't used FrontPage for a while and I would recommend that you not use it

When you create a new page you will need to save it in a subfolder.

e.g.
In FP your main folder may be "My Web Site"
When you save your page create a new folder within "My Web Site" then you can save your page into that folder.

The path to that page will then be
"My Web Site/My SubFolder/page.html"

Steven.Bentley · #4 January 13th, 2003, 10:46 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by degsy
I haven't used FrontPage for a while and I would recommend that you not use it

I'll second that motion

Dashwood95 · #5 January 14th, 2003, 04:51 PM

I'll concur as well. Bad idea when there's so many freeware apps out there. I've heard good things about 1st Page, and CNET always has freeware available.

2337lover · #6 January 14th, 2003, 07:33 PM

Thanks for your replies. Your suggestion worked degsy.

Is Macromedia Dreamweaver a good alternative to Frontpage?

Steven.Bentley · #7 January 14th, 2003, 07:50 PM

Dreamweaver is reputed to be infinitely better than FrontPage.

For the record I use FirstPage but that's not a WYSIWYG editor, you do need to be able to code.

**degsy** · #8 January 14th, 2003, 08:00 PM

Dreamweaver is Excellent imo.

But, it is expensive and you need to put in alot of time to understand it and use it to its full potential.

Dom MD · #9 January 15th, 2003, 01:04 AM

the cheapest and fastest way to learn is to use Notepad, and learn from HTML tutorials or other sites using View Source. webpaging is one of those things that's best learned through experience and practise.

2337lover · #10 January 16th, 2003, 01:49 AM

OK, now that I have that out of the way, how can I set it up so that users don't have to type .htm to view the pages?

For example...

This www.abc.com/pictures/2003/march instead of this
www.www.abc.com/pictures/2003/march.htm

**degsy** · #11 January 16th, 2003, 03:59 PM

it depends on the server, but usually if you save the file as index.htm or index.html then it work.

Steven.Bentley · #12 January 16th, 2003, 08:17 PM

just to clarify that, make a folder called march and put a file in it called index.htm