Before you create your first web page, it is important to understand how the folder hierarchy of a web site works. All files in a web site are kept in folders. The folder that contains everything in the site, including all sub-folders and files within those folders, is called the root and is denoted as a forward slash, /. Folders can contain any number of subfolders. Subfolders are specified with a folder name preceded by the name of the folder that contains them and followed by a /. The location of a folder is known as its path.

For example, this page, named Navigation, is located in the folder Basics, which is a subfolder of support. Therefore, the full path for this page is:

/support/Basics/Navigation

Simple, right? In case you ever get lost, look at the bottom left of your browser window. There you'll find the full path of the page that you're currently on, the History of the page, and a link to the Site Contents of the current folder. More on those later.

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