Problems with Organising Website Files - Folders Stop My Pages from Displaying

Hello there, firstly welcome

As you create the folders are you changing the code for the links? e.g. if you were going to picture.jpg, you would now need it to say foldername/picture.jpg, if you're not doing that, then that's the problem.

Thanks. Would I need to do that if the file is in the folder or is it just when its outside.

e.g. in Folder 2, a subfolder of Folder 1, would I put something like folder1/index.html to link outside to the homepage but not need it for img1.jpg that is inside Folder 2?

wow how confusing.
you can do all your links relative to root.
so like this
folder 1:
href="/folder1/pic.gif"
folder 2
href="/folder1/folder2/pic.gif"

I'm slightly confused by your question here - just think of it like this, if what you are linking to is within the same top level or folder as the page you are linking from, then you don't need to include any folder name in the link, if however you are linking to something that is within another folder, then you need to name the folder and if it is within another sub-folder of that then you need to name the two folders in the order that they would be accessed to reach the file. I don't think I'm explaining it very well Just try and think of it in the same way as any file manager on your computer and the filename path that is used to access documents. Look at the example Alex just gave also.

Let me know if I need to try and explain it better!

i should make this a bit clearer.
/ is the first folder after your website URL.
so you can linking to
href="/folder1/folder2/pic.gif"
would be the same as
href="www.mydomain.com/folder1/folder2/pic.gif"

Sorry. I know I'm being particularly dense about this. It's difficult to explain when I don't know what I'm talking about! Here's a link from a page:

<a href="index.html">Home</a>

Would that need changing to this on each page outside of folder 1 ?

<a href="/folder1/index.html">Home</a>



Thanks for your help Alex & Vanessa.

okay, if you want to like to
yoursite.com/index.html
you just put:
<a href="/">Home</a>

contact in the root folder:
yoursite.com/contact.html
would be:
<a href="/contact.html">contact</a>

if doesn't matter where the files that contain these links are

so linking to /folder/img.jpg
yoursite.com/folder/img.jpg
would be
<a href="/folder/img.jpg">img</a>

hope that made sense

grr, i just wrote all that ha.
no worries

Hurrah! You're welcome. I was in fact just going to suggest that you try it out to see if you had understood correctly!

Do post again if you have any more questions