The right extension. The two extensions .htm and .html are equally valid. Just make sure that your links use the right one.
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Design Before You Create
Arm yourself with a paper and a pencil and start identifying everything you would like to see displayed on your site. Figure out every page on paper and draw all their links.
Figure 1: The typical structure of a site
A good piece of advice when beginning the design of a site is to start with the home page as this is the first thing which visitors see when they arrive. All of the site's topics should also be accessible from this home page, and the other pages should offer a link to jump back to it. This first page must be named index.html (or index.htm), now an accepted convention on the Internet. This will enable visitors to type in your site URL as http://www.mysite.com while being directed to http://www.mysite.com/index.html.
The right extension. The two extensions .htm and .html are equally valid. Just make sure that your links use the right one.
The other pages of the site are not subject to any mandatory rule, but try to start off with good habits. First, avoid the use of space characters, accentuated characters or other peculiarities. Don't forget foreign visitors who might not have access to these characters. Keep to the 26 letters of the alphabet and a few digits. Secondly, name all your pages, images or other resource files using lower case letters. This way, you will avoid lots of confusion when creating links.
Sources of errors. Also note that for some hosting servers, a file named MYPAGE.HTML is not identical to another named mypage.html. Keeping to small letters will reduce the risk of page errors.
Arm yourself with a paper and a pencil and start identifying everything you would like to see displayed on your site. Figure out every page on paper and draw all their links.
Figure 1: The typical structure of a site
A good piece of advice when beginning the design of a site is to start with the home page as this is the first thing which visitors see when they arrive. All of the site's topics should also be accessible from this home page, and the other pages should offer a link to jump back to it. This first page must be named index.html (or index.htm), now an accepted convention on the Internet. This will enable visitors to type in your site URL as http://www.mysite.com while being directed to http://www.mysite.com/index.html.
The right extension. The two extensions .htm and .html are equally valid. Just make sure that your links use the right one.
The other pages of the site are not subject to any mandatory rule, but try to start off with good habits. First, avoid the use of space characters, accentuated characters or other peculiarities. Don't forget foreign visitors who might not have access to these characters. Keep to the 26 letters of the alphabet and a few digits. Secondly, name all your pages, images or other resource files using lower case letters. This way, you will avoid lots of confusion when creating links.
Sources of errors. Also note that for some hosting servers, a file named MYPAGE.HTML is not identical to another named mypage.html. Keeping to small letters will reduce the risk of page errors.