Harold maybe you should leave this to someone that knows about webpages? ;-)
But to answer your question, NO. .html and .htm is essentially the same thing. It's best to make HTML pages .html because that's the first type of page a bot looks for, but it really doesn't matter. The .html extension has absolutely nothing to do with any "html" within the code (as long as we're talking about HTML pages). With HTML it does really matter if the CODE is upper or lower case, but it's best to keep it lower case. With XHTML it DOES matter. HOWEVER, with the doc type declaration tag you put below, that IS CASE SENSITIVE and do NOT change it. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> This is of course IF the pages are going to fall under that doc type declaration. There are many types. http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html . It's not all that important really to have one, but the spider bots can parse the page better WITH one, IF it is the CORRECT doc type tag. If you're going to start doing something like this you should familiarize yourself with http://www.w3.org/ . Don't be all that concerned with the validator. Most errors it shows are not of any consequence, but some CAN BE and CAN prevent a bot from properly parsing/spidering a page. It's best to search for search engine bot simulators and put the pages through those to see how the pages will spider. -Clint God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner http://www.OrpheusComputing.com http://www.ComputersCustomBuilt.com http://Computer-Hardware-Sales-Consumer-Electronics-Sales.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harold B." Hello again ... I'm helping someone start a personal website and I'm ending all files with "htm" (sans quotes) instead of "html" ... Question: Do I have to make the changes (or should I make the changes) in the following tags where they appear on the page (which opens and closes the page, of course)? As an aside, I know lower case is the way to go but he's my very young grandson and for the time being, caps are easier for him to see as coding. --- Harold <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> </HTML> PS: What happened to the time when children played with those colorful cubed alphabet blocks, or even the more sophisticated building blocks with which they built castles? ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
