TRUE or FALSE: a website question

[AaLF]

G'Day

We (me & wife) are having a Website created. We've got a name and a host. A lot of our site will be downloads of MP3s & Vids and Lecture transcripts (PDFs). The Designer is waiting on me to provide a 'road map' so he can start programming the back pages. Then we create the front page.

So that's gonna take time. I want to start uploading the MP3s and Vids now. He says to wait for the back pages (?) so a destination is ready for them. But uploading is so slow. It'll take weeks (or more) to upload these lectures etc.

Here's the question:

Why can't I just create one big temporary folder called "My Uploads" inside the website now and then later transfer the files to the correct folders when the website is finally created?

[1boss1]

Yes you can, decent FTP clients (i use CuteFTP) have a right click "Move to" just like in Windows. So you can right click your temporary upload folder, or highlight a bunch of files and "Move to"

/home/username/public_html/newlocation

This will move them to the yourdomain.com/newlocation folder. Your can also zip them up, upload them and unzip on the server if your server is configured for it which will save time/bandwidth. Ask your host if you can upload any compressed filetypes and extract on the server, or test with a small test file first.