AGCJ 407: Web Authoring in Agricultural Communications Understanding the File/Folder Fracas AGCJ 407 Web Authoring in Agricultural Communications

AGCJ 407: Web Authoring in Agricultural Communications Learning Objective Describe and demonstrate initializing external storage media, creating archival folder systems, and file naming protocols

AGCJ 407: Web Authoring in Agricultural Communications Creating Folders Right click in the drive or folder Right click in the drive or folder Highlight “New” in the pop up menu Highlight “New” in the pop up menu

AGCJ 407: Web Authoring in Agricultural Communications Creating Folders Highlight “Folder” in the new pop up menu and click on it Highlight “Folder” in the new pop up menu and click on it

AGCJ 407: Web Authoring in Agricultural Communications Naming Folders “New Folder” is the default name “New Folder” is the default name Type in desired name for your new folder Type in desired name for your new folder

AGCJ 407: Web Authoring in Agricultural CommunicationsFolders You can have multiple folders within a folder AGCJ 407 Folder has folders within the folder 

AGCJ 407: Web Authoring in Agricultural Communications File Names You will be working with various files in this class It is important to know the difference between file types Use “one word” file names when saving new files to your Web

AGCJ 407: Web Authoring in Agricultural Communications Common File Names *.htm or *.html  Hypertext Mark Up Language (Web page files) *.htm or *.html  Hypertext Mark Up Language (Web page files) *.jpg or *.jpeg  Joint Photographic Experts Group (medium image files) *.jpg or *.jpeg  Joint Photographic Experts Group (medium image files) *.gif  Graphics Interchange Format (large detailed image files) *.gif  Graphics Interchange Format (large detailed image files) *.bmp  Bitmaps (lower quality image files) *.bmp  Bitmaps (lower quality image files) *.pdf  Portable Document Format (precise image of a document) *.pdf  Portable Document Format (precise image of a document)

Review It is helpful to develop a “visual” image of your folder/file structure so you know where everything is located on your disk. It is helpful to develop a “visual” image of your folder/file structure so you know where everything is located on your disk. Use single words to describe folders and files; help decrease amount of Web drill down. Use single words to describe folders and files; help decrease amount of Web drill down. Get to know the difference between graphic file types; it goes back to your intended purpose for the file. Get to know the difference between graphic file types; it goes back to your intended purpose for the file.

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