A typical website structure

This is a typical website structure that I use in my web projects. To create this structure using Dreamweaver, select from the menu the option Windows > Files and start creating new pages and folders.



- index.php is the "container" of your site. Inside this page we will define the page's principal sections (topbar, navigation's bar, main content, footer);

- config.php contains the connection's strings for MySQL database (host name, user, password);

- image folder contains all the graphical elements for your site (gif, jpeg, png);

- css folder contains the style sheets files (.css);

- include folder contains all the web pages that will be loaded into the index.php "main content" section using URL variables.

See also: Load pages using URL variables and PHP include() function