Working with web pages can be rewarding, but it can be frustrating if you don’t plan ahead.

1. The first thing you need to do is make a folder. Use your name as the title of the folder. PUT EVERYTHING IN YOUR FOLDER WHEN SAVING.

2. When saving, save your main page as “main”. That way it is easy to find.

3. When linking pages, you have to keep things in the same relative location. That’s why the folder is useful to you. Web directories are not intelligent – they just go where you tell them to. If the information isn’t there, it won’t look elsewhere to pick it up.

4. For example, students sit in a classroom of 12 tables, set up 3 across, 4 deep. They sit in the same desks every day and their teacher has brought in a robot to return tests and assignments. He programmed the robot to return things to the positions where students sit, and so the robot only knows them only by where they sit. Robert sits in seat 1-4 (back of the first column of seats). Sam sits in seat 2-1 (first row, second column if seats). If these two people change seats, the robot will STILL go to the back of the first set of seats and hand off Robert’s work. Even though he’s sitting in the front of the class.

5. The same thing happens with web files. They are programmed to look in specific places – if the information is not there, you will have a connection failure.

6. Web editing programs are not great with word processing. There are some functions that don’t work as well, and other functions simply aren’t part of the package. You should write up your text in a WORD document, edit it, save it, then cut and paste it to the web page. This provides two benefits – (1) you will have better written copy on your page, (2) you have a text backup in case something miserable happens to your web page. Your replacement time will be much less.

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