Nomenclature
Sorry I had to use such a fancy term. I am curious as to how others go about naming files. If you have a small site it doesn't really seem to matter. But if you have a large site, it can be a bit of a problem.
Let's say you have a home page with 10 pictures on it and 10 links.
The pictures are:
Car, bicycle, truck, plain, train, scooter, motorcycle, bus, rocketship & a pair of Nikes.
The links are the same as the pictures.
How would you name the files? car.jpg, car.htm, etc or homecar.jpg or home1.jpg. I usually try to use lowercase on these files as Linux is case sensitive.
Mark Irving
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mjames posted this at 21:30 — 23rd March 2001.
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Always lower-case for me. For my sports site, I have like /sports/mlb/articles/article69.shtml, /other/extras/headlines, etc.
Brian Farkas posted this at 22:14 — 23rd March 2001.
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I would probably name the file car.jpg, etc.- unless there was a different car picture on each page, then maybe I would call it pagename_car.jpg. I would name the html file (if there was only one) index.html- if there were 10 or so, I would probably name the car page car.html, then bicycle.html, etc. This is fine for a small site, meaning probably under 20 pages at max. After that, you're going to want to split the content up into directories, as that is more effective for larger sites.
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