How do you prefer to keep your site organized (or not)

[candycanearter07]

ive got not much to say other than bold of you to assume I keep organized with ANYTHING. My computer files are a MESS. I have 7 "stuff" folders all labeled so vaguely you'd have an easier time finding the lost city of Atlantis in 10 years time than you would trying to find a picture I downloaded YESTERDAY

same, but im using a site templater thing which makes it a bit easier

_comic is for the markdown stuff that goes on the comic page and i also put the index for it in there
assets is for like images and my rss feed and stuff
most of the other stuff is either stock jekyll implementation or self explanatory

[cynderthekitsune]

my own site is fairly organised, i have a dedicated 'assets' folder for my main assets, i constantly purge unused/bloated junk, and i try to snip out unused/garbage code in my code.
though that's kinda why i try keeping the site small - it's a massive pain if it's a larger site, especially since i already fully hand-code the whole thing from start to finish. which is why i primarily just copy and paste all the code from a related (or similar) file into the other.

but a lot of the time, especially since i don't have any dedicated cloud storage (for hosting external files online, for example as images for forums and stuff) that's where it gets really messy.
my Nekoweb site only has 500MB max, which, while 500MB for me is collossal, it's really nothing for videos, music, all that. and my Neocities (despite me having Supporter) is still not a good place to directly host them either.
i've thought Proton's cloud service would do, but apparently it only has a direct link to download, which is a pain since it doesn't have the file directly, so i can't host it to platforms like this or my Discord since i refuse to get Nitro.

so i think my sites are fairly organised, but half the time they look like sphagetti more or less :P

[Kie]

Oh I was about to create a very similar topic so I'm glad I found this!
Here's what my site looks like:



I get pretty passionate about organizing stuff.. So allow me to explain how my site is organized!

First off, I have all the main pages sitting in the main folder, and if they have an individual style-sheet I just name it the same way but with "-style" at the end! However several pages use a generic stylesheet, that I (creatively) named "generic-page_style"!

I also have a stylesheet called "color-pallete". This style sheet contains all the root variables I use in the "generic" pages! It's on a separate stylesheet so it's easier to switch it out for a totally different color scheme. Right now I'm planning on having different color schemes that change based on the seasons (or depending on the day cycle! haven't decided yet) and automating it with javascript. Having all the colors being on a separate stylesheet is gonna make that super easy!  I've also considering doing a drop down menu that lets users can choose the color scheme they like the most.
Anyways! When I do make more color palletes I'll probably make a dedicated folder for them.

I use a folder called "widgets" for all the little files for... well, widgets! It's stuff like javascript files a stylesheets for music players or similar doodads! This is one of the latest additions so it still needs some stuff moved into it.
I have an HTML file for my navbar. I was tired of having to update it on every page every time I added something new to the site, so right now I use an iframe for it. This way I only have to edit it once! But it takes a bit longer to load :P Anyways! The navbar html file will go in the widget folder eventually, but I have been lazy to move it.
The "homepage_iframe" folder (containing html files for an iframe in the homepage) is also waiting to be moved in the widgets folder right now 

All the "secondary" HTML pages go in their little dedicated folders, like "collections" and "blog_entries"
And I also have a dedicated folder for all my RSS feeds!!

Last and DEFINETLY least.. we have the only thing I hate about my site organization: the "assets" folders. YES. FOLDERS PLURAL. Unfortunately I got distracted and forgot file names are case sensitive!   I ended up creating two "assets" folder (one with an upper case a and the other with a lowercase a) on accident. When I finally noticed, most of my assets were in the lowercase one, with only a couple of images being in the uppercase folder. Unfortunately, one of that couple of images was my site button! Now I cannot remove the folder without breaking all of my buttons on sites linking back to me!! So I'll have to live with two assets folders FOREVER!!  

Anyways.. sorry for the long rant!! I get really passionate about this stuff

[cynderthekitsune]

Oh I was about to create a very similar topic so I'm glad I found this!
Here's what my site looks like:



I get pretty passionate about organizing stuff.. So allow me to explain how my site is organized!

First off, I have all the main pages sitting in the main folder, and if they have an individual style-sheet I just name it the same way but with "-style" at the end! However several pages use a generic stylesheet, that I (creatively) named "generic-page_style"!

I also have a stylesheet called "color-pallete". This style sheet contains all the root variables I use in the "generic" pages! It's on a separate stylesheet so it's easier to switch it out for a totally different color scheme. Right now I'm planning on having different color schemes that change based on the seasons (or depending on the day cycle! haven't decided yet) and automating it with javascript. Having all the colors being on a separate stylesheet is gonna make that super easy!  I've also considering doing a drop down menu that lets users can choose the color scheme they like the most.
Anyways! When I do make more color palletes I'll probably make a dedicated folder for them.

I use a folder called "widgets" for all the little files for... well, widgets! It's stuff like javascript files a stylesheets for music players or similar doodads! This is one of the latest additions so it still needs some stuff moved into it.
I have an HTML file for my navbar. I was tired of having to update it on every page every time I added something new to the site, so right now I use an iframe for it. This way I only have to edit it once! But it takes a bit longer to load :P Anyways! The navbar html file will go in the widget folder eventually, but I have been lazy to move it.
The "homepage_iframe" folder (containing html files for an iframe in the homepage) is also waiting to be moved in the widgets folder right now 

All the "secondary" HTML pages go in their little dedicated folders, like "collections" and "blog_entries"
And I also have a dedicated folder for all my RSS feeds!!

Last and DEFINETLY least.. we have the only thing I hate about my site organization: the "assets" folders. YES. FOLDERS PLURAL. Unfortunately I got distracted and forgot file names are case sensitive!   I ended up creating two "assets" folder (one with an upper case a and the other with a lowercase a) on accident. When I finally noticed, most of my assets were in the lowercase one, with only a couple of images being in the uppercase folder. Unfortunately, one of that couple of images was my site button! Now I cannot remove the folder without breaking all of my buttons on sites linking back to me!! So I'll have to live with two assets folders FOREVER!!  

Anyways.. sorry for the long rant!! I get really passionate about this stuff

oh! that looks pretty organised!

more recently mine's been organised a lot too, and i wiped pretty much everything (that's meant to be linked from another external site) off it, which yes broke some links but i can live with that to cut the size down.
as of right now it's only 1.3MB and i'm pretty happy with it already   

[crazyroostereye]

Code: txt

.
├── Caddyfile
├── deploy.sh
├── docker-compose.yaml
├── Dockerfile
├── .dockerignore
├── .gitignore
├── rebuild.sh
├── requirments.txt
└── src
    ├── build.py
    ├── content
    │   ├── blog
    │   │   ├── index.html
    │   │   └── poste
    │   │       ├── Making of my Mailserver.md
    │   │       ├── MPV and YTDLP.md
    │   │       ├── YT Cleanse.md
    │   │       ├── YT Cleanse Week 1.md
    │   │       ├── YT Cleanse Week 2.md
    │   │       ├── YT Cleanse Week 3.md
    │   │       └── YT Cleanse Week 4.md
    │   ├── pages
    │   │   ├── index.html
    │   │   ├── music.html
    │   │   └── tv.html
    │   └── shows
    │       ├── RJC Delting Services.md
    │       └── The Apothecary Diaries.md
    ├── functions.py
    ├── static
    │   ├── 404.html
    │   ├── css
    │   │   ├── blog.css
    │   │   ├── music.css
    │   │   ├── post.css
    │   │   ├── standard.css
    │   │   └── tv.css
    │   ├── js
    │   │   └── badges.js
    │   ├── stuff
    │   │   ├── Arch.png
    │   │   ├── assets
    │   │   │   └── paper.JPG
    │   │   ├── background.gif
    │   │   ├── brickwall.JPG
    │   │   ├── corkboard_adjust.jpg
    │   │   ├── Crazy31.gif
    │   │   ├── crt.png
    │   │   ├── favicon.ico
    │   │   ├── Fonts
    │   │   │   ├── FSEX300.ttf
    │   │   │   ├── LICENSE.txt
    │   │   │   ├── OpenDyslexic-Bold-Italic.woff
    │   │   │   ├── OpenDyslexic-Bold.woff
    │   │   │   ├── OpenDyslexic-Italic.woff
    │   │   │   ├── OpenDyslexic-Regular.woff
    │   │   │   ├── PermanentMarker-Regular.ttf
    │   │   │   └── Salmon-Season.otf
    │   │   ├── frame_small.png
    │   │   ├── home.gif
    │   │   ├── Logo.png
    │   │   ├── MusicBrainz.png
    │   │   ├── music.gif
    │   │   ├── nixos.png
    │   │   ├── notebook.jpg
    │   │   ├── notebook.png
    │   │   ├── Oak1.png
    │   │   ├── paper.jpg
    │   │   ├── Pixel.png
    │   │   ├── sparkles4.gif
    │   │   ├── Spotify.png
    │   │   ├── tear.jpg
    │   │   ├── wallpaper.png
    │   │   ├── wave.gif
    │   │   └── Zen31.png
    │   └── website.rss
    └── templates
        ├── badges.html
        ├── base.html
        └── poste.html

I have a lot of unused assets (stuff) in my collection that have accumulated overtime. I really have to clean that out soon.
But I recently started writing my own SSG with Jinja2 and Python, which forced me to be a bit more Organized.