Your service provider will provide you with a root directory within which you may construct a directory tree that will represent your web. For example, this WebHints web is at http://www.ross.net/webhints/.
You then must decide how to organize your files. Because text files and binary files must be transferred in different modes under FTP, it's a good idea to keep the binary and text files separate. The approach I have found successful is to create a subdirectory called binary into which all non-text files (images, sounds, and so on) will reside. Relative paths such as ../binary/image.gif can be used to refer to files in the binary directory from the main web files.
Your home page should be called index.html.
02-Jan-1997: Note: I used to use subdirectories called
bin instead of binary. However, this caused some
problems when uploading webs to FTP servers that treated the name
bin as special, so I switched to binary.
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