 |
|
|
|
Why put an "index.html" page within each folder of your web site |
| Two reasons, security and promotion. |
| Security |
| This will work on LarryBerman.com as it's being hosted on a server that lets you see virtual directories. Otherwise, on a server that doesn't support virtual directories, without an "index.html" page, you get an error message saying "virtual directory denied" and loose visitors. |
|
In my web site:
http://LarryBerman.com
I have multiple sections each in their own folder. For example: http://www.larryberman.com/places.htm |
|
But if you drop the ".htm," because of the way the server
works, a directory of each folder is open for the world to see. For
example: http://larryberman.com/people/ |
| The same would happen to my images directory where the entire folder of images would be accessible at one time. |
| I put an index.html page in both the color and the images directories. That way anyone trying to access them goes directly to the home page. |
|
For example: http://www.larryberman.com/color/ http://www.larryberman.com/images/ |
| Promotion |
|
My web site:
http://AlternatePhoto.com has a unique style of color
infrared photographs I've been working on for the past two years. I have a
specific body of medical images that I'm planning on marketing to the
medical community to decorate offices. My medical gallery is: http://www.alternatephoto.com/gallerymedical.htm |
| I've created an "index.html" page of the medical gallery page within a folder called "medical." The resulting URL has now been shortened and can easily be typed in as: http://www.alternatephoto.com/medical/ |
| It takes you to the same gallery page which I've copied into the medical folder and renamed to "index.html." |
| A Bonus Reason |
| If they forget the extension when typing it in, the URL will resolve to the index page within the folder, which can be anything you want it to be, like a contents page for the entire web site. |
|
All photos on this site are available for stock or
fine art sales |
|||
| Slide scanning for ZAPP and other digital jury systems | |||
|
Web site content © Larry Berman, Chris Maher, or the originating artists |
|||
Chris
Maher
|
Larry
Berman
|
||