In the content column, the text wraps itself around a ?¬‚ oated image,
followed by an unordered list. On the right sidebar is an image of
the book cover with a drop shadow (the shadow was created in
Adobe Photoshop), with a simple unordered list of links below.
Setting Up the Folder Structure
When you start building a Web site, you ?¬? rst set up a folder, usually
referred to as the local folder, on your computer. This folder
ultimately contains an exact copy of the ?¬? nished Web site that will
be located in the root folder on your Web server (see ???The Root
Directory??? sidebar). When you are ready to upload your site to
your Web server, you use an FTP client to move the contents of the
local folder, but not the folder itself, into the root directory on the
Web server.
If you are using Adobe Dreamweaver, then this is the folder that you
select as the Local Root Folder when you set up the FTP information
for the site.
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The Root Directory
The root directory is the one to which the root URL for your Web site points.
A URL provides a unique address for every document on the Internet.
Every domain, such as stylinwithcss.com, is associated via the Domain
Name System (DNS, a kind of phone book for the Web) with an IP address
(Internet Protocol address, the unique numerical name of every server on
the Internet).
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