Hi I got some guy to design me a site but I am not sure how to make sub directories for different pages. I need my site to have structure like below. http://www.example.com/ http://www.example.com/manufacturers/ http://www.example.com/manufacturers/x http://www.example.com/manufacturers/x/modems http://www.example.com/manufacturers/x/modems/type1 How do I do this - must I modify .htaccess or how? The guy cannot fix it so I am asking anyone for help.
What language was the site written in? Are you using a CMS? Does that CMS allow for such "friendly URI's"? Do you even have server-side code? "Design a site" could mean any of a dozen things -- from some ignorant twit spanking it on their tablet in Photoshop, to a single front-page "template" that still leaves dozens of issues unaddressed, to a ready to go base HTML+CSS template that just needs to be sliced up into whatever system it will be used in... to a already sliced up template that's only useful for one specific templating system. A good 90% of the above usually amounting to the alleged "designer" being an art *** who knows **** about **** blowing smoke up your backside with "ooh, pretty" but not enough knowledge about HTML, CSS, or accessibility to have any business designing a blasted thing. Basically, your question just begs more questions. I'd have to see what you have and where you are actually at with it to really weigh in more meaningfully about it. Without knowing if it's even been coded, how it's coded, how it's split up, and what the underlying server-side system is, nobody here can tell you what your next step even is.