I'm buzzing about making my website bigger and building it up, occasionally I accidently make a html file than a htm file, I was thinking, maybe one is better than the other?
What do you guys think, htm or html? Or are they so similar it's not worth worrying about?
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benj posted this at 17:43—22nd November 2007.
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Doesn't matter...both the same. Microsoft "invented" the ".htm" when it was trying to coin the 3-letter extensions.
".html" is more popular around professionals.
Greg K posted this at 17:48—22nd November 2007.
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For the most part, I'd say it makes no difference to the site for the general person.
Now you get someone like me, and just from my past experience in all of this, I see .htm as more amateurish (sp?) than .html just because about 10+ years ago when I was starting out, "professional" sites seemed to mainly have .html while the "average joe" site used .htm (because of windows prior to Win95 only supporting 8.3 filename structure (8 characters for the name, 3 for the extention, .htm)
But as far as SEO rankings and such, shouldn't make one it of difference.
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webwiz posted this at 18:34—22nd November 2007.
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In general, the answers above are correct. However, there is one situation where it may be important to use one or t'other, and that is on your index or "home" page.
Depending on who hosts your site, the default page that comes up when a visitor omits the file name from the address may need a certain name. Or, more usually, a set of names. Some hosts require a file name of "index.htm" or "index.html" or "default.htm" and/or any number of others. As an example, my host allows "index. html" but "index.htm" does not work. Simply to be consistent, I name all my HTML files to end in HTML, but it's not really necessary.
YMMV.
On any platform, PC, Linux server, Windows server, whatever, the file type (the "dot - something") determines how it is treated. For example, the server I use will send a file ending ".XHTML" as, well, XHTML, not as HTML. For more on this, google "file MIME types."
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Michelle posted this at 18:24—22nd November 2007.
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Hmm... vote for neither. I use Drupal's clean URLS and don't have any extension.
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Reece S posted this at 21:29—22nd November 2007.
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Cheers Greg!
lol. JK, I use htm as it is less to type when homing in on a directory online, thats about the only difference i see myself.
Sonic_Wolf posted this at 12:27—24th November 2007.
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Cool, thanks for the heads up guys
Roo posted this at 20:56—24th November 2007.
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Yeah waaaaaay back in 199something when I put up my first God awful site on my ISP space that I had back then, you had to use .htm for some strange reason.
Now IMO it's best to use .html because that is what most people are used to, so it will be easier for users to remember that they went to contact.html vs contact.htm for example.
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aarathi posted this at 10:02—28th November 2007.
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both htm or html are same.
Suzanne posted this at 17:53—28th November 2007.
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Having no extension future proofs quite a bit (plus using a database reduces further issues with tinkering with files directly), but I like .html because it's so clear. For me, too, .htm just screams FRONTPAGE and MS and bad memories of buttons and backgrounds and embedded midi files.
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