Step 2: Create the content for your pages

A typical artist's site will include the following pages:

• About the artist - A page that describes the artist's work, personal history, and accomplishments.
• Resume/curriculum vitae - This can be updated as often as necessary, and should always bear a date when it was last current.
• Individual pages about specific projects - This may include images of visual art, downloadable or "streaming" video.
• Calendar of events
• Contact information
• Links to relevant sites, including exhibit/performance spaces where the artist's work is featured, online articles about the artist's work, and affiliated artists, organizations, and collaborators.

Websites tend to be organized in a simple outline-structure that mirrors the way that files reside on the server. Web servers are organized in nested directories, the same way that files are contained in folders on your hard drive.

The filename "index.html" has special significance on the web: it is the default (home) page for each directory. So if your domain name is www.mysite.org, then the address www.mysite.org would show the page "index.html" that is inside the "web" directory. The address www.mysite.com/contact.html would show the page "contact.html" that is found inside the "web" directory, and so forth. Notice that directories (folders) have no suffix, but page files and image files end in suffixes like "jpg," "gif," or "html."

A typical directory-structure for a simple site might look like this:

-> next -> | <introduction page>