Understanding the File/Folder Fracas

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Understanding the File/Folder Fracas
AGCJ 407 Web Authoring in Agricultural
Communications

• AGCJ 407
• Web Authoring in Agricultural Communications

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Learning Objective
AGCJ 407 Web Authoring in Agricultural
Communications

• Describe and demonstrate initializing external
  storage media, creating archival folder systems,
  and file naming protocols

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Creating Folders
AGCJ 407 Web Authoring in Agricultural
Communications

• Right click in the drive or folder
• Highlight New in the pop up menu
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Creating Folders
AGCJ 407 Web Authoring in Agricultural
Communications

• Highlight Folder in the new pop up menu and
  click on it
• ?

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Naming Folders
AGCJ 407 Web Authoring in Agricultural
Communications

• New Folder is the default name
• Type in desired name for your new folder

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Folders
AGCJ 407 Web Authoring in Agricultural
Communications

• You can have multiple folders within a folder
• AGCJ 407 Folder has folders within the folder
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File Names
AGCJ 407 Web Authoring in Agricultural
Communications

• You will be working with various files in this
  class
• It is important to know the difference between
  file types
• Use one word file names when saving new files
  to your Web

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Common File Names
AGCJ 407 Web Authoring in Agricultural
Communications

• .htm or .html ? Hypertext Mark Up Language
  (Web page files)
• .jpg or .jpeg ? Joint Photographic Experts
  Group (medium image files)
• .gif ? Graphics Interchange Format (large
  detailed image files)
• .bmp ? Bitmaps (lower quality image files)
• .pdf ? Portable Document Format (precise image
  of a document)

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Review

• It is helpful to develop a visual image of your
  folder/file structure so you know where
  everything is located on your disk.
• Use single words to describe folders and files
  help decrease amount of Web drill down.
• Get to know the difference between graphic file
  types it goes back to your intended purpose for
  the file.

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El Fin

• See you next week!