Store All Images in One Folder?

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I am running Microsoft FrontPage 2003 (a new installation) on Microsoft
Windows XP Media Center Edition, Version 2002, Service Pack 2 (a new PC). I
have had everything cleaned out my website on my server and am starting
completely new. I had created my site a long time ago with FrontPage 2000
and then, I think, 2002. This was on my old PC. I transferred the files to
my new PC and used 2003 to make new changes.
A tech support person at the server suggested that I could store all
images on one folder on the website. He said this would speed up access,
etc. Actually, the images are stored alphabetically on my PC even though I
enter them via different web pages as I create them. I have downloaded all
the postings here (10153) and searched without success.
Does what he say make any sense and is it worth doing?
Any ideas? Thanks very much.

Chris.
 
It's usually a good idea to keep your web images in the Images folder not in the root. I keep them in sub folders of the images folder by catagory: design images, photogallery images, etc...anything that makes sense to keep me organized. Whether it will load faster...dunno...kinda doubt it would make much difference. But, you do want to optimize them for the web first before you import them into your web...that DOES make a difference as far as load time.


| I am running Microsoft FrontPage 2003 (a new installation) on Microsoft
| Windows XP Media Center Edition, Version 2002, Service Pack 2 (a new PC). I
| have had everything cleaned out my website on my server and am starting
| completely new. I had created my site a long time ago with FrontPage 2000
| and then, I think, 2002. This was on my old PC. I transferred the files to
| my new PC and used 2003 to make new changes.
| A tech support person at the server suggested that I could store all
| images on one folder on the website. He said this would speed up access,
| etc. Actually, the images are stored alphabetically on my PC even though I
| enter them via different web pages as I create them. I have downloaded all
| the postings here (10153) and searched without success.
| Does what he say make any sense and is it worth doing?
| Any ideas? Thanks very much.
|
| Chris.
|
|
 
It's up to you how you arrange your image files on your computer and/or on
your web sites.

For example I have a folder called "images" for my web sites, then I often
create subfolders such as "gifs", "jpegs" and "animations" for example, and
categorise the images that way.

Even to narrow it down further, I add a folder called "sliced" for the
headings and banners that are sliced images reassembled in a table, and a
folder called "tables" because I often use FP2003 tables with rounded
corners and shadows etc, and because FP2003 generates a few dozen of these
images for each table, having them separate gives me control over which are
in use and which are not, if I happen to delete a table, the images remain
behind; but having them in separate folders makes it simple to delete images
not in use.
 
Chris B said:
I am running Microsoft FrontPage 2003 (a new installation) on
Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition, Version 2002, Service
Pack 2 (a new PC). I have had everything cleaned out my website on
my server and am starting completely new. I had created my site a
long time ago with FrontPage 2000 and then, I think, 2002. This was
on my old PC. I transferred the files to my new PC and used 2003 to
make new changes.
A tech support person at the server suggested that I could store
all images on one folder on the website. He said this would speed
up access,
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I don't see how it could speed up the access. Cutting the weight of
images speeds up access. All my images are in the images folder, BUT
in many sub-folders inside the images folder, based on what when
where! My pages with 24 images load in 15 to 20 seconds on dial-up.

Tom J
 
Yes, it makes great sense.

I store mine in ../images

On local disk this is
C:\Documents and Settings\Trevor\My Documents\My Webs\myweb\images

On server it is
http://tandcl.homemail.com.au/images

I also have 2 subfolders:
1. images/display - Gifs, etc that are not full size pictures
2. images/thumbnails - the same images as in images/ but as thumbnails

In the code the appropriate prefix is added to refer to the folder
e.g. <img src="images/display/04-04-18-trevor.jpg"
or <img
src="images/thumbnails/04-05-23-007-carole-and-japanese-garden-at-nikko-narita_t.jpg"

Sometimes, these prefixes are added by JS but the theory is the same

Of course, you can go ahead without doing this, of course, but I find
classifying your data is always an advantage
--
Cheers,
Trevor L., WIP (Web Interested Person)
Website: http://tandcl.homemail.com.au

Chris said:
I am running Microsoft FrontPage 2003 (a new installation) on
Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition, Version 2002, Service Pack
2 (a new PC). I have had everything cleaned out my website on my
server and am starting completely new. I had created my site a long
time ago with FrontPage 2000 and then, I think, 2002. This was on my
old PC. I transferred the files to my new PC and used 2003 to make
new changes. A tech support person at the server suggested that I
could store all images on one folder on the website. He said this would
speed up
access, etc. Actually, the images are stored alphabetically on my PC
even though I enter them via different web pages as I create them. I
have downloaded all the postings here (10153) and searched without
success. Does what he say make any sense and is it worth doing?
Any ideas? Thanks very much.

Chris.
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