- Creating a New Web Page
- Saving Your Web Page
- About Microsoft Word and Web Pages
- Specifying a Default or "Home" Page
- Editing Web Pages
- Organizing Files
- Viewing Your Page in a Browser
- The Inspiration of Others
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Specifying a Default or "Home" Page
Most servers have a system for recognizing a default page in each folder, based on the name of the file. So, when your visitors type a URL with a directory but no specific file, the default file is used.
To specify a default or "home" page:
First, ask your ISP how such a default page should be named. On most servers, use index.html. (Microsoft servers generally use default.htm.)
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2.13 Save the file with the special default name: either index.html or
default.htm, depending on your server. Note that this is BBEdit's Save box
(on Mac OS X), but it doesn't matter which program you use to save the
files. Next, when you save your file (see page 50), use the proper name.
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2.14 When the visitor types the path to the directory, but omits the file
name itself, the file with the default name is used.
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2.14 Tips
You can create a default page for any and every directory on your site.
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The default page that you create at the top level of your Web directory is your site's home page, the one that will appear when your visitors type your domain with no additional path information: http://www.yourdomain.com
If you don't have such a default page in each directory, most servers will show a list of the directory's contents (which you may or may not want to reveal to your visitors). To keep those prying eyes out, create a default page for every directory on your site.