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For use by W2xx 1234 students only

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To create a new page, on the Standard toolbar,

You see a new page.

NOTE: If you see text on the screen, you may be in Code view. To get to 

Design View, click 

Notice that the top left tab of the page reads  new_page_1.htm.  This is a 

temporary filename that we'll change when we save the file.

Understanding File Naming

When a user accesses a URL, such as 

http://www.iu.edu/

 and doesn't specify a 

filename, such as home.htm, the default file of that URL is displayed. The 

name of this default file depends on the Web server. Usually the default page 

is index.htm or home.htm. When a user tries to access a URL and a default 

page does not exist, the Web server may display a list of all the files in the site 

or an error message.

Be sure to consider the following guidelines when naming Web files:

  Web page file names are generally followed by a .html or .htm extension

  Explicitly and consistently define all filename extensions (.htm or .html)

  Do not use spaces or special characters (e.g., # or ~)

  Name files using a consistent method

Keeping these points in mind, we'll save the home page as 

index.htm

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