A Website Filenames And URLs
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by: Ranold Anton
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Before you set your hands on the keyboard and mouse,plan your file
naming conventions for your web site.Talk to your system administrator
and find out what type of operating system your web server
uses.Typically you will develop your New York web design
locally on a PC or Macintosh, and then upload the files to the web
server as the last step in the publishing process. If the web server
runs an operating system different form your local development system,
transferring your files to the server may break local URL links because
of either filename or directory structure inconsistencies.
FILE NAMING
The maximum length of the filename, valid characters and punctuation,
and sensitivity to uppercase and lowercase letters all very among
operating syste as described.
Case Sensitivity
If you have an image file named picture gift, for example, and you
reference that file as the image will display properly on a Macintosh
or windows machine.On a UNILX server, however, the image will not load
properly windows machine.On a UNLX machine, picture, gif and picture
gif are two different files. It is best always to use lowercase letter
for all filenames Remember to use
lowercase letters in filenames in your HTML.Code as well.
Character Exceptions
Character use also is incompatible between operating systems. For
example the filename my stuff.htm is valid on a PC or Macintosh,but not
on a UNIX machine because of the space in the filename.If you transfer
a web site containing my styff.htm to a UNIX server, the links to the
file will not work.
File extensions
Use the correct file extension to identify your file to browser.HTML
text files must end in.html or .html. Be careful to add this extension
when you are working in Notepad, which defaultsto saving .As you also
must correctly specify image file formats in the file extensions.
Solving the filename Dilemma
The best way to overcome the restrictions of case sensitivity,
character exceptions, and file extensions is to use the convention
specified by the international standards organization for all your
files.This convention specifies a maximum of eight letters followed by
a period and three-Letter extensions.Allowed characters are letters,
numbers,and the under- three-letter file extension if you use the 8.3
file naming convention on your development system, you will have little
or no file name problems when you transfer your filed to the Web design
server, regardless of the server’s operating system. By sticking with
this filename format, you ensure that your files will be portable
across the greatest number of operating systems. Do not forget to use
lowercase characters, and omit special characters from your filenames
to ensure compatibility.
URL USAGE
Although you may know that URLs are the addresses you type into your
browser to access a site,you may not realize that there are two type of
URLs:-complete and partial.
website:-http://www.flyingcowdesign.com/
About the Author
The author is an experienced Web designer specialized in building Search engine friendly websites. He is with Flying cow , a web design las vegas, california web design and san francisco web design silicon City based company.
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