Site design using subfolders?

vox

I see alot of sites are now using subfolders instead of having all the html pages in one folder.

Eg. Instead of using domain.com/index.htm it is just going to domain.com/index/
or Instead of using domain.com/name.htm it is just going to domain.com/name/

Anyone know basically how this is done. It looks like a good way of organising things.

aidan_walsh

It doesn't necessarily have to be subfolders either, they could just be using mod_rewrite or .htaccess to guide you to the approprate page.

But anyway, basically just sticking a folder with an index.* file on it should do the trick for you.

colm_c

Also some CMS/blog tools do this, I know both drupal and wordpress do it anyway, I'm sure there's loads of others that do it too.

jlang

It's a good system. Means that links and bookmarks don't break when you upgrade your CMS and the default extension changes from .html to .php or .asp or .cgi or .pl or whatever's the style next year.

zAbbo

It's straight forward with directory indexes, or using the default directory index such as index.html etc.

It's also important to not link directly to index.html if you are using that method.

Or just get down and dirty with mod_rewrite.

vox

Thanks for all the info. I might attempt it with my next site. BTW Zabbo what do you mean about not linking directly to index.html?

zAbbo

vox wrote:

Thanks for all the info. I might attempt it with my next site. BTW Zabbo what do you mean about not linking directly to index.html?

Just link to the directory instead

.ie link to www.site.com/folder and not www.site.com/folder/index.html