TECH: Naming HTML files

[Susan Aroldi <saroldi@IDT.NET>]

When I named the HTML and GIF files that I use in my homepage, I gave them
descriptive names and didn't worry about the length of the names. I added
the extension .html to all the text files.   The
pages and the graphics all seem to work just fine, though I access them
with a Mac only, and have never tried with a DOS based machine.

Now, I just took a course, where the instructor said that all files must
be named in this format: xxxxxxxx.xxx -- with no more than 8 letters
before the dot and no more than three letters in the extension. If they
are not named in this way, he claimed, the page and its graphics might not
work on every platform.

My question:  is this correct?  I could change all the names and links --
a pain and time-consuming, but not really a problem -- if I have to. After
all the work that I have put into designing the page, I certainly want it
to be done correctly.

Can anyone out there give me the definitive answer about naming web files?
Should I rename and relink and reload all my files??

Many thanks,

Susan Aroldi, Media Specialist
Oradell Public School
Oradell, New Jersey 07649

saroldi@idt.net
http://idt.net/~saroldi

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