ArchMed1 commissioned me to build a website based on his source material.

We had a top-level site (Main & Variants) of around 8 pages.
Additionally, he want to include Articles (Main & Variants) that are a long journal page with text and a fair number of images.
These were all set up design file A01.xar through A40.xar upwards. As each was set as index.htm, they all need to be in sub-folders under the Articles sub-folder.
So the delivered structure was:
  • Top-level - 8 x htm & index_htm_files folder
    • Articles
      • A01 - index.htm & index_htm_files folder
      • ---
      • A40 - index.htm & index_htm_files folder
      • ---

It was designed this way to avoid a gigantic design file and to make updating of Articles and adding new ones far easier.

All good and the delivery came in around 80+ design pages as at the time it was Main + Variant).
ArchMed1 than was shown either how to Publish all from the XDA itself or by FTP (FileZilla).
Job done.

ArchMed1 then decided, post-delivery and outwith our agreement, each Article URL needed to use the hyphen-separated Title instead.
So for the Article "Pond haunted by Ghost", the A28.xar design file has Page filename instead of 'index' set as 'pond-haunted-by-ghost'.

The required structure now can be:

  • Top-level - 8 x htm & index_htm_files folder
    • Articles
    • ---
    • alligator-eats-camera.htm & alligator-eats-camera_htm_files folder
    • bird-talks.htm & bird-talks_htm_files folder
    • pond-haunted-by-ghost.htm & pond-haunted-by-ghost_htm_files folder
    • ---

In doing so you lose a useful reference back to the design file for the gain of putting all the Articles and their supporting files into a single bucket of the Articles folder.
ArchMed1 now only publishes to the top-level site and to the Articles subfolder for the remainder.
Through the XDA this has to be set up for each design file at the start.

If required the Articles can still sit in their own sub-folder but the URL would then become:
  • (../Articles/)A26/alligator-eats-camera.htm & alligator-eats-camera_htm_files folder
  • (../Articles/)A27/bird-talks.htm & bird-talks_htm_files folder
  • (../Articles/)A28/pond-haunted-by-ghost.htm & pond-haunted-by-ghost_htm_files folder


If using FileZilla, you Export Websites to a root folder for the top-level and an Articles sub-folder for the rest.
Then you transfer across to the server.

All previously explained with diagrams to him, many times with different scenarios explained.

Acorn