Web site sub-directories
The following is a partial listing of the root directory of my Web site on bpastudio.csudh.edu:
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10-28-07 11:32AM <DIR> 275
11-14-07 03:43PM <DIR> 471
02-02-07 10:57AM <DIR> ARTICLES
08-30-05 09:53AM <DIR> ASPlay
03-29-06 07:51AM <DIR> BIBLIO_files
08-30-05 09:53AM <DIR> bigo
Etc.
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As you see, there are directories with the files for two courses (275, and 471), articles, some ASP experiments, and so forth. I have been adding material to the Web site since the mid 1990s, and it currently contains 14.4 gigabytes in 42,059 files. I would not be able to keep track of so much material if it were all in one large directory. Therefor, I have organized it into many (2,732) sub-directories.
Note that as a Web developer, I keep an identical copy, a mirror, of the Web site on the hard drive of my laptop:
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11/15/2007 02:26 PM <DIR> 275
11/15/2007 01:31 PM <DIR> 471
02/13/2007 09:56 PM <DIR> ARTICLES
09/14/2005 09:59 AM <DIR> ASPlay
07/16/2006 03:29 PM <DIR> BIBLIO_files
02/14/2006 11:45 PM <DIR> bigo
Etc.
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I add new material to the copy on my laptop development system, and, when it is debugged, I FTP it to my Web directory on bpastudio.csudh.edu.
In the case of my Web site, there is only one developer. If it were a site for an organization with more than one developer, each developer would FTP his or her changed pages to a staging server on the organization intranet. A supervisor could then review the new material before approving it for publication on the live server on the Internet.