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Organizing site file and folders

wscheer — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:44:57 +0000

It is a good idea to organize your site files into folders, but be careful you don’t make too many sub folders in your site. Too many sub folders can make your site just as unorganized as having no sub folders.

Consider a site like this:

There are files in the root directory that are unnecessary or unclear as to what they are used for. Lets also take a look at our image management.

Step 1 to clean this up will be to move site files (.html, .php, etc) into more appropriate folders. For example we can take party.htm, part2.htm, and party3.htm and put them into a folder called “party”.

Now our urls look like this: http://yoursite.com/party/party2.htm

As for the images, this is matter of preference. You’ll want to decide how much division is need to make it as easy as possible to update and maintain. In our example all of the site file were in one folder called “images”.

We can clean this up by adding a few more folders and making sure our file names don’t have any spaces, special characters, etc.

In the organized site, images are located in one central folder, and all site files are organized using a sub folder system that is easy to understand and maintain.

timthumb for image resizing

wscheer — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:28:22 +0000

Download timthum.php script and upload to your site. We are uploading to root of a site in a folder called /scripts/(ex: www.example.com/scripts/). You also need to create a folder “cache” inside of scipts.(ex: www.example.com/scripts/cache/) The cache folder needs read/write permissions.

The image we want to resize is called balloon.jpg located in www.example.com/images/

Create a .html page and place this code inside the body tags:

Thats it! See a working example here.

Pawleys Island Law

wscheer — Fri, 22 May 2009 19:51:24 +0000

Pawleysislandlaw.com is the official website of attorney Dave Mason. The site is designed to project a clean and professional layout. A css dropdown was used to create the navigation menu with cross browser compatibility in mind.

Emedis Healthcare

wscheer — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:49:49 +0000

Emedis.com was using an entirely flash based website. Updates were difficult to make due to the “hard coded” method of using flash. The slide navigation and images used by the site looked a little outdated. The new site features a very simple, clean css design that relays all of the sites information much more quickly. Emedis now uses a CMS that is styled using the latest css methods.

Golf Myrtle Beach TV

wscheer — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:23:42 +0000

GolfMyrtleBeach.TV provides the traveling golfers with complete information on Myrtle Beach golf courses, packages and tee times. The organization wanted a fresh, modern looking site for users to search for golf packages. The site features a googlemaps™ course finder which lets users view all courses available in the Myrtle Beach area.

Carolina Tee Times

wscheer — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:09:01 +0000

carolinateetimes.com is an online golf reservation site. The original site was launched in 1998 and had not undergone many changes. In 2007 the site was redesigned to better organize the information that was being conveyed. The facelift included a graphics update as well as restructuring the site to make it easier for clients book their trips. The redesign also utilized the latest css to provide the most similar browser support available.

site refresh

wscheer — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:41:39 +0000

Well, its been awhile since we changed our theme so I decided it was time for a site refresh. The goal was to create a “photorealistic” notepad on a desktop design. I found the pictures on istock.com and used photoshop to create the backgrounds and navigation links. It was a fun challenge and we hope you like the site. We are really excited to continue developing this beautiful fresh design so don’t forget to check back often for site updates.

Web Trends new address

admin — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:50:46 +0000

If your trying to reach Webtrends, the new web address is:

http://70.61.64.6:7099

Moving the office

admin — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:17:49 +0000

Friday March 14th through Monday March 17th, we will be packing up and moving our office. As soon as we are all settled in, we will post our new number, address, ect. In the mean time, email will be the best way to reach us.

Hello world!

admin — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:18:37 +0000

Welcome to Ellev.com. We have just finished some long over due maintenance. Please check back soon for new and exciting content.