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Step 1: Create a topic root

I expect that you know very well how to create a new directory (or folder) in your computer. The emphasis here is to provide suggestions about:

This is based from my own experience. I often create a directory tree based on subject matter that contain imported information from the Internet, from general to specific as I go from a "root" directory toward its branches. A branch name, for our purpose of containing a collection of interrelated web pages, is either named

A branch becomes a topic root directory if I intend to make the hyperlinks to work locally between these imported web pages. If under my topic root directory, I create sub-branches that will contain web pages, their hyperlinks features will work locally for the whole topic root as long as I do not restructure the directory tree under that root. However, I can move the whole tree to another computer or disk drive without any problem.

As a simple example, let us suppose that you want some information about Big Feet Software products. You might create a directory named "pages.infinit.net-bigfeet" or simply "BigFeet" as a topic root. From previous visits to the web site, you intend to copy three web pages (usually it is much larger but I limit to 3 for the purpose of this tutorial).


A newly-created directory to be a topic root (Windows Explorer view)

 


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