3.3. Adding new folders and applications in the default website
A website may start out small, meaning a few files (web pages) comprise the entire site. As the needs of our bike shop grow, so will the desire to increase the size of the website by adding new products and features for customers. This will dramatically increase the number of web pages and make it harder and more confusing to keep track of all those files.
Think of your hard disk for a minute and all the files it contains. What if you didn’t have any folders and stored all the files in the root of your hard disk? Can you imagine the problems? Files with the same name overwriting each other, trying to find a single file in the enormous list—security management would be almost impossible. ...
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