Setup for emacs org-mode outside .emacs file

Question

I would like to set up a project to be published as HTML using org-mode.

I don't want to litter my .emacs with project definitions, and I was wondering where I could put the (setq org-publish-project-alist) variable.

Can I somehow put it in the same dir?

Answer 1

Ryan McGeary describes what I think is a good way to organize emacs startup files.

Update:
The domain emacsblog.org expired :(
You can look at the cached copy of the originally linked page.

Answer 2

You could just add a new file in your .emacs.d (or whereever) and do a load-file in your .emacs file.

-- EDIT --

For example, you could have the following in your .emacs

(load (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/lisp/personal-org-mode-stuff.el"))

and then put all of your customization stuff in ~/.emacs.d/lisp/personal-org-mode-stuff.el and it will load that file and import all of your .emacs

Another poster also posted a link to a description of how to add your lisp files to the load path and require them.