Properly filed doubts and concerns

Today in chapter six of Designing a Digital Portfolio, Cynthia talked about the necessities of properly organizing your works and computer files. She admitted this to be one of her more boring chapters, and rightly so. Still it did have its points, and it did highlight a few errors on my own part for keeping my files safe. My biggest problem is that I rely almost exclusively on digital copies of my work. My laptop is getting old and should anything happen to it I’d really be in jam, so based on her advice I’m going to begin printing out my stored work, so that if worst does come to worst perhaps I can try to recreate the lost files form the printed version. Ideally I’d like to have a back up hard drive where I could store a second copy of all my digital files, but sadly funds are tight and my birthday isn’t for another year. I’m hoping that when summer starts I can save enough money to begin purchasing such necessary items. I think a new desktop computer should also be on that summer to do list, but once again that is a few months and quite a few thousands of dollars away.
Going back to organization, thankfully I am very left-brained person so organization comes easily to me. In fact I often can’t stand it if my files are not organized, I’ve often suspected that I am mildly OCD, or perhaps it’s just a side effect of growing up in a predominantly military (navy and air force) family. However, when it comes to organizing web files, I fall flat on my face. I never really got the hang of keeping my slices in order or making sure that my master folder in Dreamweaver was in the right location. Print art and 3D I can handle but the web is a scary frontier for me and I’ll admit my dread in trying to create an online portfolio from scratch. I have lots of ideas about how I want it to look, but I don’t have the technical know how to program it. My current solution is to find a web hosting that provides lots of editing tools so that I can avoid the more scripting heavy approach of using just dream weaver.
I’ve considered buying certain tech pieces, by that I mean pre-coded items such as the “turning page” effect or the “genie” effect seen in MACs today. Yet this brings up a dilemma in the sense that I am using something that does not accurately portray my abilities in web design. I’m really afraid that using such tech pieces would work too well, in the sense that an employer would take interest in my because of the novelties of my website, not the contents of it. Perhaps I am over thinking this as was the case the Arsenal clip art files, but still a lot of this in uncharted territory for me so I feel compelled to make all my doubts known.