Vlad Alexander wrote:
> Nancy Johnson wrote:
> > I believe best practices are to have all images in
> > a directory entitled images
>
> Hi Nancy,
>
> I would not encourage this practice. There are two types of
> images on Web site - "site level" images (mostly used in page
> layout like logos, buttons, backgrounds, etc.) and "document
> level" images (images used by a given document). If you put
> all images into the "images" folder, it's like putting things
> into a black hole; things go it but never come out. The
> problem is just by looking at the files in the "images"
> folder, you have no idea which documents are referencing them
> so you are not sure if you can ever delete them.
>
> The best file system way to manage images that I found so far
> is to create folders with the ID of the document and then
> place all "document level" files like images and attachments
> (pdf, doc, etc.) into these folders. When you delete a
> document, you can then delete the folder associated with this
> document.
>
One technique I use is to put all background images in the same folder as the
css. I only use 'images' folders for actual content images. Ideally there won't
be any other sort.
Geoff.
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