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Speaking of search engines, is there a difference to have pages like my page.htm or mypage.html Does it matter?
Right now all my pages are in .htm (except index.html)I think that index.html has a priority over index.htm If I have two identical index pages one .htm and the other .html the .html one would appear by default.
Anyway I am re-designing the whole site and thaught to make all pages .html
Is this a good idea?
Right now all my pages are in .htm (except index.html) I think that index.html has a priority over index.htm. If I have two identical index pages one .htm and the other .html the .html one would appear by default.
This is due to the settings at the server. You specify the default home page extension at the server level.
I would personally recommend that you stay with the three letter extension (.htm) as it is the de facto standard. Alert your host that you would like the index.htm to be the default home page for the root directory and, all other sub-directories where an index.htm page is being used.
As long as it works and you aren't using any .html pages, I don't see any need to involve your web host.
This is due to the settings at the server. You specify the default home page extension at the server level.
Let me clear that one up a little...
You specify which extension takes precendence. At least that is how it works in IIS. So, as jomaxx points out, you probably won't have to contact the host just as long as you do not have multiple index pages using various extensions. You might want to get rid of the .html version and just use the .htm version.
