Main Website with "sub-websites"

[tmkidder]

So, I'm REALLY new to website design. I've developed one for my sister and her upcoming wedding - but before I put it online, I want to find out something that hopefully will save me some time/money/resources/etc later. Please respond to the following situation/question- I want to have MY website for example <<ignore the links - they're not pointing to any real websites>>: www.mywebsite.com. Then I want to have several different websites with different looks/templates but tie them to the main website. It would look like this: www.mywebsite.com/template1 and www.mywebsite.com/template2. So there'd be two "homes" for these: One to take me to mywebsite.com/template home and the other would be mywebsite.com home. Does that make sense? How would I do it easily? Thanks in advance and wish me luck.

[davidrosso]

You can have as many "sub websites" in this manner as you want, what you are actually talking about is making FOLDERS or DIRECTORIES. A domain can have as many folders as you want.

Depending on your webhost, you could also consider making actual "Sub-Domains" which are like "http://newsite.yoursite.com". Subdomains are not always supported with your package so you need to know whats included with your webhost package. But your safe and sure bet is creating a folder. The main page in your new folder must be named INDEX.HTML then you can call the new site by simplying going to "http://yoursite.com/newfolder".

[Dave Koehler]

My site is a good example of this.
www.koehlerinjection.com

For example: Here is a page I did for my wife's side line.
http://www.koehlerinjection.com/memories/memories.htm

Koehlerinjection.com is located in the primary directory of the web folder on my ISP. The first "memories" is a Sub folder I made to keep the parts of this page separate from any other page. Memories.htm is the actual page of course.

I do all my pages this way because:
1: I have to change and update things a lot.
2: It solves any issue with WE and lots of pages.
3: Uploading and changing takes seconds instead of forever with a lot of pages.
4: IF something gets fouled up only 1 page is affected while I figure out where I screwed up. :o No panic and hysteria with this format.
5: I don't have the problem of sorting out what is wrong when a multiple page site gets messed up.
6: Keywords, page title, etc can be made specific for each page