Help With File Structure and File Naming

Greetings,

First off, let me say that I just got on the WordPress bandwagon and I am absolutely grateful for it. I love it. Anyhow, I am trying to figure out how to structure my website in the way of a HTML site. I know that I can make new pages in through wordpress, however, I need the pages to be in .html format. On top of that, I also need the pages to be in their own directory. I hope that made sense.

I’ll try to make some sense of this. This is what it looks like now:
http://www.mysite.com/blog/?page_id=32

We would like for it to look like:
http://www.mysite.com/folder-name/page.html

I guess what I am trying to find out is there anyway to make (1)wordpress pages appear in .html format, (2)have those pages in their respective folders and (3)not to have the “category” name appear in the “navBar”(you know, Home About PageName)?

I’ve downloaded and installed a wordpress to html pulgin, but that didn’t work. I kept getting a message that my .htaccess file didn’t have the proper permissions, but when I changed the permissions, I got the same results. I’ve tried to pull the file down locally and edit the .htaccess file manually with the code wordpress gave me for not having the proper permissions. This is what it said:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

I’ve tried to search online to answer the questions, specifically about the folder structure, but to avail. I just can’t get it to work and I would certainly appreciate any and all help/advice I can get from all of the knowledge that is floating around in these forums.

Thank you in advance to any and all who can help me out with this situation.

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