MISCELLANEOUS
Naming Files
When it comes to naming files for the Web, it is best to follow some basic principles, outlined below:
- Do not use spaces in web file names. If need be, an underscore (_) or dash (-) can be used.
- Do not use special characters in Web file names. Special characters are generally things you have to push "shift" to make on a keyboard, but more broadly can be described as anything that's not a letter or number.
- Do not use capital letters in Web file names. In some situations, files on the Web are case sensitive. Sometimes, they're not. The best way to avoid trouble is to just keep all file names lower case.
Supported File Types
DOCUMENT TYPES -----------------------------
.htm (html document)
.html (html document)
.pdf (Adobe PDF)
.txt (plain text file)
.js (javascript file)
.xls (Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet)
.doc (Microsoft Word Document)
.ppt (Microsoft Power Point)
IMAGE TYPES --------------------------------
.jpg (jpeg image)
.jpeg (jpeg image)
.gif (gif image)
.png (png - Macromedia FireWorks image)
Adding META Tags
It's likely you've heard about these magical things called META tags. META tags (which are invisible to the person browsing a site) contain information about a particular page. Search engines sometimes (although not always) index the information in META tags. Information contained in META tags alone will not attract visitors to a site. The page title, the part that appears in the blue bar at the top of a Web page in a browser, and the presence of a particular keyword in the document text will both do more to attract people to a page. Regardless, including META data can only help.