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> P1 Peer Review (Assessments)

Due:
Mon Sept 25 @ 11:55PM
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All About index.html Files:

If you remember from last Topic, HTML or “HyperText Markup Language” is the standard markup language for creating web pages and web applications.

You are going to create a lot of files labeled index.html. When a URL is passed to a browser that does not specify a file, the browser automatically requests index.html from the host server.

Essentially, this means something like http://baseurl.com and http://baseurl.com/index.html are the same. (This is not true for all websites, but for many.)

File- vs Directory-Based URLs

This assumption allows for the publication of "clean URLs," as we do not need to explicitly include the index.html at the end of the URL. This is not to say that we could not have additional pages that we explicitly address. For example we could have additional html pages at the same directory level, such as an about.html.

The URL for this case would look like baseurl.com/about.html.

However, if you wished to have a “cleaner” looking URL, you could create an additional child directory labeled /about and place an index.html within that directory.

The URL for this case would look like baseurl.com/about/. Notice how we do not use the .html and instead the URL ends with a directory slash.

For our class, we created each of our /project directories with a child directory called /pages. It will contain all of our additional .html pages. This is good for those of us learning directory structure for the first time, but because this child directory will not have an index.html file to request, baseurl.com/pages/ will most likely return a 404 error.

The URL for this case would look like baseurl.com/pages/about.html.

Why is this important?

This discussion was had so that you could understand why I had you label your file as index.html in Project 1. This is why you did not need to add index.html at the end of your path. This file now lives at a URL that looks something like baseurl.github.io/web-dev-hw/project-1/.

/web-dev-hw/project-2/

Start up Project 2 with its very own set of files:

  1. In Atom, create a new file and save it in /project-2 as index.html. Project 2 Directory in Atom
  2. You should also create a README.md and begin documenting your progress for Project 2!

{ TODO: }

  1. Read pages 1-11 of the Introduction from Duckett.
  2. If you need a refresher, please review the URL page of Topic-02.
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