Often times I compare web development with art activities like painting or drawing. This time, my point involves keeping your records organized in web development. Just as an artist keeps his stuff like paintbrush, oil paints, and other painting essentials in art storage , a web developer must also keep his or her tools well in folders and files.
Having a good and efficient method of keeping your records and reference files makes every work smooth and fast. Files are just where you want them to be at the most needed time.
For me, I usually separate finished graphics from raw, editable files, which have their own folder. Files like php or html also go to specific folders according to their function. Animations and flash files also go to another folder. All of these files within a project go to a folder with the project name as the folder name. All else that are not specific for one project go to a generic folder with their corresponding label.
Efforts such as this organization of files really pay up in long term as task patterns become easier to follow.
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