Chapter 7: conclusion
It is important to keep your files organized in a logical manner. This ensures that your files will be where you expect them to be if you come back to the site one day and maybe you've forgotten what you've loaded there. Generally, I keep all files in the same directory that pertain to the same site. If I create a branch of a site that seems to have more files than the rest of the site, I create a subfolder and locate all the files necessary to that branch there. It is not a good idea to have a page that references files in a variety of different locations. When debugging a broken image link, for example, you'd have to search through all of your directories before you discover why it wasn't loading.
Also, once you have the site loaded on the internet, you can verify one last time that your links are behaving as they should. A common problem people run into is the editor has referenced all of a page's files using the local computer's file system. The resulting link looks like this, and obviously will not function on any other computer but your own.
Once you've double- triple- and quadruple-checked the links on the remote site you can re-upload the final finished product to your space and send people links to it. Of course, html is rarely a finished product, and often it is updated many more times after it was initally posted, developing into a more complex, more useful, and hopefully more attractive place for web junkies to surf.
Thanks for your interest in creating web content. I hope you learned a bit about web publishing, and feel free to ask me any questions you may have. While such questions may be rightfully filed under "stupid", I promise I won't make too much fun of you for it.