Use relatively short names that are indicative of the content of the page.

Web readers make fewer mistakes when typing in the addresses to access your pages. Web authors (such as yourself) make fewer mistakes when creating links to your pages. We strongly suggest using all lower case letters because people make fewer mistakes.You will need to use absolute links when linking to Web pages for external resources that are not inside your project folder. You can see that if your project was copied onto a different web server, you would have to fix all those absolute links. In contrast, an 'absolute' link looks like: '/lincon/projects/essays/shakespeare.shtml'. A relative link to a file in the same folder as the web page you are editing looks like: 'shakespeare.html'.

This will make it possible to move your LInC project Web site to your school Web server without having to fix dozens of links.

Whenver possible, make relative links for links from your project Web pages to other Web pages that are in that same project.

This has been an issue for some past LInC participants when moving or copying their LInC project Web pages from the LInC class Web site to their school Web site. This is a 'conservative' guideline with the goal that you should not have to spend extra time redoing your links if you move your files from one type of computer to another. We want to really emphasize this because people who do not follow these guidelines end up spending much more time fixing broken links, which can be a source of frustration.

File names and folder names should contain only letters, digits, and underscores-no spaces, punctuation, or funny characters.

The first character of the file name should be a letter.

For example: Which of these would be easier to remember and give to a friend as a URL: hurricanes.html or hrrcns.html ? More examples: kennedy.html Because your filename will become part of your Web page's URL, it is better to use a slightly longer file name that will have an easier URL to remember than a jumble of unpronounceable letters.

The file name should be no more than 32 characters, including the '.html' or '.htm' file suffix.

In addition, use a consistent and standard suffix on other file formats indicating the format (.jpg.

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