Staying Organized

Keeping it simple and neat:

Articles

I’m sure staying organized is important to most of us. It is to me, especially when creating thirty-five article pages on a website.

So I thought I’d blog about it this morning. Writing seems to help me understand it more and if it helps someone else that’s even better.

I’ve found the best way to stay organized when writing articles for keyword topics is to create a folder for each subtopic. The name I give the folder is important because I find when I have many files and folders it can get confusing. I name the folder “Articles + subtopic name” That way I’m not wading through a maze of files–I know right where to go.

Within this folder I have seven topic articles; each article is written on notepad. The notepad transfers to the HTML pages of the website template nicely. However I write the article in Word first for spelling and grammar purposes, then I copy and paste to notepad. I repeat this procedure for each of my five subtopics.

Website Pages:

I’ve found the best way to create pages for my site is to make copies of the template after the preliminary workup is finished, such as the sidebar and after I’ve added google adsense code, statcounter code and hittail code.

Note: I’ve found it is important to make copies of the “whole template file folder” for each of the seven article topics. This, of course, is if you are using one of the ready-made free templates.

It’s been my experience that copying only part of the file, such as the “index template” without the total file doesn’t work. You will wind up with a black and white text template without the images.

After copying pages into each subtopic folder the fun begins. Now it’s time to write articles and that’s a whole new subject in itself. Right now I’m doing research on my topic theme, which is photography. Perhaps I’ll blog about it next time.

Thanks for reading.

Until next time

To your success

Marlene Cronkhite