Organizing Our Files

During the few years I was in the army, the mantra "prior preparation and planning prevents a pathetically poor performance" was bashed into my psyche. This is true in other more sedentary walks of life, but especially in setting up a SharePoint site. If you are involved in the administration of SharePoint sites as well as the design of the sites, you will no doubt have noticed that SharePoint allows us to organize a whole hierarchy of containers. We can have server farms, which have collections of web applications within them, which, in turn, have site collections within those and finally individual sites forming those site collections.

Fortunately, we are only dealing with one site at the moment. Even so, if you are a tidy soul like me, then you will want to organize your files neatly within your site. If you are not a naturally organized person, then this is a good chance to take your first steps in that direction. In addition to ensuring that we give our files meaningful names, we can do a lot to make our lives (and the lives of everyone else working on our site) easier by arranging our pages neatly using the Web Site tab, the Folder List task pane, and the Navigation task pane.