Thanks for the preliminary response.   It would really help me keep index.html files organized (for occasional updates' sake) if I could keep them in a folder within Dreamweaver’s file panel  (to the right) whose name does NOT appear in those individualized urls. 

To give you an example of why I'd like to be able to do this, let's say one wants to have a folder named California, and that various index.html files will be linked from the actual California page.   If one wants to update all pages that belong in the California directory, without having to sort through pages that correspond with (for example) Oregon or Arizona that one ALSO maintains, it could be greatly facilitated if such index.html files could be organized into a California file or something whose name is close to it.   If a page is named "Sacramento" then it need not have California in the url.  Indeed, longer urls are less appealing for the purposes of this endeavor.    So in using this concrete example as background, perhaps my initial question makes more sense now?   At any rate, thanks for trying 

Thanks for the reply.   I do, indeed, use index.html file endings even for sub-directories.   That makes for more concise urls.   I'm not sure what you mean by the following question though:

"Do you simply want to hide part of the path in the URL when a viewers visits a Web page?"

At any rate, I appreciate any and all potentially helpful feedback from anyone.   Perhaps there's a way to group index.html files in the Dreamweaver folders section (located to the right when using Dreamweaver) under a folder name that doesn't appear in the contained urls, themselves?

Hi:

    Thanks again for the supportive helpfulness.  So we can create sub-folders within folders, in a way that does NOT include the folders' name in the subfolders' index.html file's url?   I'm going to experiment with Dreamweaver right now to see if this can suit my purpose.  

I just experimented with Dreamweaver and confirmed the disappointing news.  Ah well.   Is there any convenient way to group folders on my local machine, maybe withOUT using actual "folders" (which unfortunately impose their names into the urls of sub-directories)?   Perhaps there's some mechanism that's available for achieving my goal without my having to attempt to modify the server code.   Admittedly, though, a preliminary series of experiments hasn't yielded any promising results.   Your feedback has been helpful, at any rate.     

Thanks for the reply.   Is the "rewrite engine" to which you refer a server-based modification?   Or is it something within Dreamweaver?