Folders and naming: I'm having trouble consistently associating a page as the "index view" for a folder

[gerbils]

I have the following page structure:

3	Author Home	/ author-home
9	Editors Home	/ editors
17	Useful Information	/ general
11	Who's Who	/ general/whos-who
13	Pragmatic Guides	/ guides
14	Markup Guide	/ guides/markup
2	Basic Markdown	/ guides/markup/basic_markdown
15	Images	/ guides/markup/images
8	Introduction to Markup	/ guides/markup/introduction
7	New Author Guide	/ guides/new_author_guide
6	The Repository	/ guides/new_author_guide/subversion-repository
1	Home	/ home
10	Production Home	/ production

My Home menu in the sidebar looks like this:

From what I read, I was expecting that because I have a file called "/guides", then it would appear in the side menu (as Pragmatic Guides). Instead, the "Pragmatic Guides" entry in the side menu opens the guides folder:

The file "guides" then appears below the folder name at the top.

I'd read that by naming things the way I have, the files that have the same name as "virtual folders" would override the display of the folder itself, and act as a default page for that folder. Clearly I'm missing something. But what???

TIA

Dave

[e4rthdog]

I am using real folders in a structure like yours.

What made the trick is to create a same name .md file where the folder is, NOT inside the folder.

But even that has a small issue IMO.

The page appears on the site-tree:

@NGPixel : Is there a way to hide the index page? That would improve things a lot.

Note: The above examples are with real folder structure not the virtual ones.