File Organization Prompt

Due date: Sunday, August 24, 2025 at 11:59 pm

Points value: Week 1 participation points (10 points)

When you are creating webpages and building websites, keeping your files and folders organized is critically important. (You'll have to take my word for it now, but soon you will learn how moving a file from one place to the next will break everything!) Let's make sure you start the semester off on the right track by creating the folders you'll need for this course.

Note: Follow proper file-naming conventions here. Do not use capital letters, spaces, or underscores. Limit file and folder names to lowercase letters, hyphens, and numbers ONLY.

First, create a new folder on your computer or cloud-based storage service (I highly recommend the latter). This first folder will contain everything you do for the entire course. Name it whatever you'd like; I suggest something like "eng-573" or "writing-for-the-web".

Next, within the course folder you just made, you want to create several new folders—one each for textbook exercises, your web resume, your small research website, your website analysis project, and your client website. Name all the folders appropriately. For example, you could call the textbook exercises folder "textbook-exercises" or "book-tutorials".

Then, inside your textbook exercises folder (whatever you named it), create 12 more folders—one for each chapter we'll work through together. Call these folders something like "chapter-1" or "chapter1-textbook". Again, it's up to you.

Finally, take at least two screenshots: one showing all the folders within your course folder (the first one you made) and one showing a list of all the textbook exercises folder (which should have all 12 chapter folders inside it). Upload these screenshots to the #assignments channel on Slack. I will take a look at what you share and let you know if I see any issues.