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Dreamweaver - filenames

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Reply Mon 18 Aug 2008, 09:41Delegate Emma said...

Emma has attended:
Dreamweaver 8 Introduction course
Dreamweaver 8 Intermediate course

Dreamweaver - filenames

All the pages I create and maintain for our website are saved as .HTM instead of .HTML. What is the difference/reason?

Thanks

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Reply Tue 19 Aug 2008, 09:21Trainer Richard said...

RE: Dreamweaver - filenames

Hello Emma

Hope you enjoyed your DreamWeaver training with BEST STL yesterday.

Thank you for your question regarding HTML file extensions.

The short answer is that these days there is very little difference. Either one will work.

The technical reason is that the three letter extension was due to Windows 8.3 filenaming convention used in DOS because it could not understand 4 letter extensions or long filenames. html is the proper extension and should always try to use this instead of htm.

If you want some more detail on this, read through the following:
http://www.sightspecific.com/~mosh/WWW_FAQ/ext.html

Hope that answers your question.

Regards

Richard
DreamWeaver Trainer

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