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Un sito web è composto da molti file: contenuti testuali, codice, fogli di stile, contenuti multimediali, e molto altro. Quando crei un sito web, devi assemblare questi files in una struttura nel tuo computer, facendo si che essi possano parlare tra di loro, e permettendo a tutti i contenuti di puntare al giusto file, prima di (eventualmente) caricarli su un server. Questa pagina discute di alcune problematiche alle quali dovresti essere al corrente cosicchè tu possa impostare una corretta struttura di file per il tuo sito web.

Dove dovresti creare il tuo sito web all'interno del tuo computer?

Quando stai lavorando ad un sito web localmente sul tuo computer, dovresti tenere tutti i file in una singola cartella che rispecchi la struttura di file all'interno del tuo server. Questa cartella può essere creata ovunque tu voglia, ma dovresti posizionarla in una directory dove tu possa facilmente trovarla, magari sul tuo Desktop, nella tua cartella di Home, o nella root del tuo hard drive.

  1. Seleziona un posto dove archiviare i tuoi progetti web. Qui, crea una nuova cartella chiamata progetti-web (o qualcosa di simile). Qui è dove il tuo intero sito web vivrà.
  2. Dentro questa prima cartella, crea un altra cartella per archiviare al suo interno il tuo primo sito web. Chiamala sito-test (o qualcosa di più fantasioso).

An aside on casing and spacing

You'll notice that throughout this article, we ask you to name folders and files completely in lowercase with no spaces. This is because:

  1. Many computers, particularly web servers, are case-sensitive. So for example, if you put an image on your website at test-site/MyImage.jpg, and then in a different file you try to invoke the image as test-site/myimage.jpg, it may not work.
  2. Browsers, web servers, and programming languages do not handle spaces consistently. For example, if you use spaces in your filename, some systems may treat the filename as two filenames. Some servers will replace the spaces in your filenames with "%20" (the character code for spaces in URIs), breaking all your links. It's better to separate words with dashes, rather than underscores: my-file.html vs. my_file.html.

The short answer is that you should use a hyphen for your file names. Google treats a hyphen as a word separator, but does not treat an underscore that way. For these reasons, it is best to get into the habit of writing your folder and file names lowercase with no spaces and with words separated by dashes, at least until you know what you're doing. That way you'll bump into fewer problems later down the road.

What structure should your website have?

Next, let's look at what structure our test site should have. The most common things we'll have on any website project we create are an index HTML file and folders to contain images, style files, and script files. Let's create these now:

  1. index.html: This file will generally contain your homepage content, that is, the text and images that people see when they first go to your site. Using your text editor, create a new file called index.html and save it just inside your test-site folder.
  2. images folder: This folder will contain all the images that you use on your site. Create a folder called images, inside your test-site folder.
  3. styles folder: This folder will contain the CSS code used to style your content (for example, setting text and background colors). Create a folder called styles, inside your test-site folder.
  4. scripts folder: This folder will contain all the JavaScript code used to add interactive functionality to your site (e.g. buttons that load data when clicked). Create a folder called scripts, inside your test-site folder.

Note: On Windows computers, you might have trouble seeing the file names, because Windows has an option called Hide extensions for known file types turned on by default. Generally you can turn this off by going to Windows Explorer, selecting the Folder options... option, unchecking the Hide extensions for known file types checkbox, then clicking OK. For more specific information covering your version of Windows, do a web search!

File paths

To make files talk to one another, you have to provide a file path between them — basically a route so one file knows where another one is. To demonstrate this, we will insert a little bit of HTML into our index.html file, and make it display the image you chose in the article "What will your website look like?"

  1. Copy the image you chose earlier into your images folder.
  2. Open up your index.html file, and insert the following code into the file exactly as shown. Don't worry about what it all means for now — we'll look at the structures in more detail later in the series. 
    <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>My test page</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <img src="" alt="My test image">
  </body>
</html>
  3. The line <img src="" alt="My test image"> is the HTML code that inserts an image into the page. We need to tell the HTML where the image is. The image is inside the images directory, which is in the same directory as index.html. To walk down the file structure from index.html to our image, the file path we'd need is images/your-image-filename. For example, our image is called firefox-icon.png, so the file path is images/firefox-icon.png.
  4. Insert the file path into your HTML code between the double quote marks of the src="" code.
  5. Save your HTML file, then load it in your web browser (double-click the file). You should see your new webpage displaying your image!

A screenshot of our basic website showing just the firefox logo - a flaming fox wrapping the world

Some general rules for file paths:

  • To link to a target file in the same directory as the invoking HTML file, just use the filename, e.g. my-image.jpg.
  • To reference a file in a subdirectory, write the directory name in front of the path, plus a forward slash, e.g. subdirectory/my-image.jpg.
  • To link to a target file in the directory above the invoking HTML file, write two dots. So for example, if index.html was inside a subfolder of test-site and my-image.jpg was inside test-site, you could reference my-image.jpg from index.html using ../my-image.jpg.
  • You can combine these as much as you like, for example ../subdirectory/another-subdirectory/my-image.jpg.

For now, this is about all you need to know.

Note: The Windows file system tends to use backslashes, not forward slashes, e.g. C:\windows. This doesn't matter in HTML — even if you are developing your website on Windows, you should still use forward slashes in your code.

What else should be done?

That is about it for now. Your folder structure should look something like this:

A file structure in mac os x finder, showing an images folder with an image in, empty scripts and styles folders, and an index.html file

 

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