File names for the Web

HTTP—the "language" Web servers use to communicate—doesn't deal cleanly with spaces in file names. For instance, if you name a file fido page.html, it may show up in the browser as fido%20page.html.

Also, Web servers are case-sensitive, so keeping file names lower-case eliminates a potential source of mistakes.

Make all file names in a Web site-pages, graphics and folders-lower-case, with no spaces.

Correct file name: chesapeake.html

Incorrect: Chesapeake Bay.html