User Guide

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In the New Page or Web task pane, select Web Site Templates.
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Select Empty Web.
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In the Specify Location Of The New Web text box, type or select a name
and location for the web.
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Click OK.
By definition, the Empty Web template is a web site template. Although it
could contain page templates or predetermined formatting, it doesn’t. Other
than a couple folders, it is as the name implies, empty.
File Naming
Conven-
tions
Giving a name to a web and its contents may seem like a no-brainer, since
every piece of the web needs a name if it’s to be referenced properly; how-
ever, as the number of files or people working on a site grows, the more
complicated it can become to name and manage a web. By following a few
simple naming conventions, and consistently naming webs, folders, and files at
the start of web site development, you can save yourself, collaborators, and
site visitors a lot of time and trouble.
• Keep name lengths as short as possible. You have two choices: short or
long. Short filenames commonly use the “8.3” naming convention,
restricting your file names to eight alphanumeric characters (or less) with
a three-character file extension. Upside: Compatibility with older servers
and DOS-based PCs. Downside: It’s difficult to name hundreds of files
descriptively using only eight characters. Long filenames, in contrast, can
easily be more descriptive. But, since filenames become part of a web
page’s address, long names can be hard for visitors to remember, as well
as cumbersome to type. If you don’t have to use the short “8.3” method,
we recommend using longer file names, but still try to keep them as short
as possible; no more than 20 characters is a good rule to follow.
Although nearly out of favor for naming web pages, the “8.3” naming
convention is still commonly used to name image files.
• Do not use spaces (use hyphens and underscores instead), punctuation
marks (accents, apostrophes, colons and semicolons, commas, exclamation
points, left or right parentheses, and question and quotation marks), or
special characters (ampersands, asterisks, at symbols, backward or forward
slashes, carets, dollar signs, greater or less than symbols, left or right
brackets, percent signs, pipes or vertical marks, plus or pound signs, or
tildes).
• Use lowercase letters. Some servers, like UNIX, are case sensitive, so
“MyFile.htm” is considered different from “myfile.htm.” By making all
your file names lowercase, it just makes life easier for people working on
your site and site visitors. No one has to remember whether or not a letter
was capitalized or not.
• Use only alphanumeric characters (a-z and 0-9). If you start a file name
with a number or put non-alphanumeric characters in a file name, a Web
server may not display the page.
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