How To Build Your List


 

 

How to Open a Folder

By moving your mouse you can direct the cursor to settle on the closed folder that you wish to look at.  Double click the left button of the mouse (two clicks in quick succession with your forefinger) and the folder will open.

Let's take a look at the "Insurance" folder and open it up to see what's inside. 

Level I
You open up your main file
 
Insurance    
 |
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|          |          |          |

                      
House
 
   |
Car
  
|
Health
      |
  Life
 
    |
 ----------             ---------    -----
          |                  |             |       |
                                    
    Contents      Building     Joe     Jane    Joe
                                                                         |
                                                                  -----------------
                                                                  |            |             |
                                                  
           
                                                           Policy 1  Policy 2  Policy 3
Level 2
You find your folder categories 
Level 3
You find your sub- categories
Level 4
You find your sub-sub- categories

What you see above is a "folder TREE" - the same principle as a "family tree" which I guess you may all have seen at some point in your lives.  This example only goes to 4 levels, but of course there can be as many levels as you wish.  However, I would not, personally, recommend going much further than 3 or 4 if you're a raw beginner otherwise you may run into difficulties with actually remembering what is in which folder! 

So, what we have here in this example is the main file  "Insurance"  which would be shown on your screen as a "closed folder"  until you decide to open it up to view the contents - at that point the icon will then change to an "open folder" and you will then see 4 "closed folders" called
"House", "Car", "Health" and "Life".  

The "House" folder has been split into two categories by making a folder for each category  "Contents" and "Buildings" - therefore all correspondence pertaining to the contents insurance will be saved to the "Contents" folder, and the same applies to the "Buildings" folder.
 
There is only one car, so the "Car" folder has not been split into categories at all so all correspondence appertaining to the car insurance will be within that folder.

Both Joe and Jane have "Health Insurance" so they each have a folder for their health insurance correspondence.

Now, in this scenario, only Joe has Life Insurance at the moment, but he has made a decision to make a folder for his life insurance correspondence so, if they take out life insurance on Jane at a future date, then he won't have to worry about moving files around to keep them separate, he will simply open up a new folder for Jane at that point in time and save all her correspondence to her new folder.

This is called "Future Planning" and that's what you will need to bear in mind when creating your website!

I hope you can see the relevance of making folders to  categorize different areas  into individual subjects, whilst retaining everything about the main subject  under ONE folder heading.

How To Create Your Folders

  Go to your Desktop
   Call up "My Documents"
  Click on "File"  (top left hand corner of your screen)

  A dropdown menu will appear - bring your cursor down to    where   it reads  "New"  and another drop down menu will appear - click on "folder"











 A  new folder will appear.  Rename it by highlighting* the words "new folder" and type in something that you'll recognize as holding all the information for your website.  (for the examples throughout this book, we'll call this folder "My  Web") - hit return and your folder is saved.  
*Note:  To "Highlight" text to rename or delete, simply place your cursor at the beginning of the required text,  left click your mouse and hold button down whilst you move your mouse over the text that you require to change or delete, then release the mouse button.  You can then type in the new text to rename, or press the "Delete" button on your keyboard to delete all text.


   Go to your blank "word document" - click on "File"  again, then click on "Save As" in the drop down menu.  (top left hand corner of your screen)
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