ChadR — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:14:46 +0000

As everyone has commented it doesn't matter. I think most people think of .html so if you tell someone go to mydomain.com/Get-Offers.htm they might inadvertently go to mydomain.com/Get-Offers.html because of common practice.

webchat — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:36:37 +0000

jesse1;217257 wrote: don't think it matters at all. You are probably asking for SEO purposes right?
well search engines index both the same as far as I know.

PHP I think gets indexed equally too.

The only issues I know that might cause an issue are dynamically generated pages from databases that use urls to populate information on the webpage.

I could be wrong though.

Here's a little something I put in my .htaccess files...

RemoveHandler .html .htm
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html .xml .js

What it does is allow me to write all my PHP in HTML files (oh and I can use PHP in XML and Javascript too) - I suspect that search engines *might* treat a PHP page differently to HTML - so I ALWAYS use HTML.

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sofy60 — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:34:18 +0000

I always do one or the other but consistent to insure less confusion

jesse1 — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:04:59 +0000

ChrisL;216131 wrote: Hi

Does it make any difference if you name an HTML page .htm or .html.I notice my server finds index.html before index.htm. Is it good practice to use one before the other? I think dreamweaver automatically uses .htm.

Cheers

don't think it matters at all. You are probably asking for SEO purposes right?
well search engines index both the same as far as I know.

PHP I think gets indexed equally too.

The only issues I know that might cause an issue are dynamically generated pages from databases that use urls to populate information on the webpage.

I could be wrong though.

ChrisL — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:37:00 +0000

Cheers for that!

ACJavascripts — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 04:05:02 +0000

.html all the way!!! No, I don't have facts to back it up - I just hat frontpage haha

Monkeyboy — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:21:40 +0000

Ultimately no it doesn't, and for the most part is merely a matter of convention. It's mostly down to preference.

.htm was introduced Microsoft to follow the standard 3 character extension sets (.wmv, .mp3, .bmp e.t.c.) although .html was around before that. I would say however that 9 out of 10 people would use .html and I would agree... for a start .htm makes me think of Frontpage

Certainly if your server is configured to read .html first then I would use .html although I always do anyway.

This blog brings up the same topic and the comments cover a good range of views.