[Web4lib] reorganizing a web site

[Kathy Gaynor]

We are in the midst of a complete redesign and want to use this opportunity 
to reorganize our library's web site (<http://library.webster.edu>).  We 
started many years ago as a web site with a handful of pages that we threw 
into the root directory.  We have made subdirectories as needed over the 
years in a somewhat haphazard fashion (gee, the root directory is getting 
pretty long, let's move some stuff out of there).

So far we have looked at our content and have done a rough inventory.  We 
have assigned working names to groups of similar files (e.g. "Facility 
Information", "Instructional Materials", etc.).  These are rather broad 
categories to my mind.

So here are my questions:

1. How have you gone about organizing the files on your server?  Do you put 
everything under a subdirectory (e.g. ../facility/hours.html)?  Or are some 
things left in the root directory (e.g. ../hours.html)?

2. How narrow do you make your subdirectories (categories)?

Any advice, war stories, etc. that you could offer related to this topic 
would be much appreciated.


Kathy M. Gaynor, Reference Librarian		
Emerson Library
Webster University				
470 E. Lockwood Ave.			
St. Louis, MO  63119
(314) 961-2660 x7811
(314) 968-7113 fax
kgaynor at webster.edu