构建网站页面

Question

I am new to the web development scene and recently I have started to wonder as what constitutes as a solid structure for organizing my web pages. I had picked up something that I felt was working for me but after consulting a friend we both ended up on different sides of an argument. I'm hoping I am not asking a question that deems opinion but rather I hope I can get a straight forward answer.

The original way my files were organized is as so:

-- website
----- Index.php
----- projects
------------ index.php
------ about
------------ index.php
----- contact
------------ index.php
------ lib
------------ img
------------ js
------------ php
------------ css

The way I was told to structure:

-- website
----- index.php
----- about.php
----- contact.php
----- projects
------------ index.php
------ lib
------------ img
------------ js
------------ php
------------ css

If someone could give me pointers as to why any is better or worse, that would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Is this website for you, open source or going to be on the market? In my honest opinion the best file structure is what you are comfy with and can find what you are looking for painlessly. If you are planning to make this available to the public either free or paid you can still find the previous usefull. But if I had to choose between your 2 examples I like the first one since for me looking at folders looks better than a bunch of files.

If you do break it up by files you can in a way make it a bit more "modular" for lack of a better term and include particular assets to the page like its own stylesheet, images, etc