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Rules for uploading files and file management on a website

1. Keep everything in the same folder. Don't make "subfolders" Of course you can make subfolders if you want to, but it just complicates things.
2. Use a simple file-naming convention to avoid problems. All lower case, no spaces, no characters other than "a-z" and "1-0"
3. Always include three-character file extensions, usually either ".htm," ".txt," ".gif," or ".jpg." Make sure you don't name a non-jpg file ".jpg," that won't work. (You can use ".html" if you want to, but then ALWAYS use ".html." Be consistent.)
4. Remember that if you have a file named "index.htm" on the server, and then you send a second, different file named "index.htm" to the server, the second file will replace the first.
5. Files which are on the server but which are not "linked" from "index.htm" or other ".htm" files are OK. You don't have to delete them.
6. "Download" means "copy from the server to my hard disk;" the 'downloaded" file remains on the server.
7. "Remote" means the Internet server.
8. "Local" means your hard disk on your computer (most likely "C").
9. Give files names that help you remember them. For the face of a doll, for example, use "dollface.jpg," and so on….
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