Is there a way to have them in a sub directory without breaking the cms? Something like this
/powercms/
or is it better advice to go into the common folders that are on most sites like the css, images and js folders and rename any files in those folders that have common names like,
style.css to site-style.css
jquery.js to site-jquery.css
What was happening is that the cms builder had a few file names that are standard names so it was overwriting the files that I already had in the site. Thus it would break parts of the pages.