Naming your main page index

Question

Probably a really dumb question but here it goes... When I'm making random practice websites is it standard for every "home page" to be saved as index.html? So at some point I might have a bunch of "index.html" 's, do I just add the folder name to differentiate these to the href? FirstHTMLpage/index.html, SecondHTMLpage/index.html like this?

Sorry, like I said, probably a dumb question.... Thanks!

Answer 1

No it's not.
It depends on your web server and its configuration.
By default apache has "index" file as a "home" or "root" page. You can change it with .htaccess or from config.

When you get into nodejs, django or laravel frameworks, you must specify all routes by yourself.

Answer 2

You can have a separate folder for each menu link, so folder name definitely becomes part of the url. I do that usually.

Answer 3

I suggest you do in this way:
1. Only keep one index.htm in root directory.
2. Name your practice webpage meangingly.
3. Put them all in a folder called practice, which is in root.
4. In index page, add hyperlink
href=".../practice/target.htm"

Answer 4

Hello all, i am very very new to web development, already learnt html n am presently on css, i do know some tags and can do simple webpages ...my questiin here is about the web server , how do i upload , what are the frameworks to follow while uploading to a webserver, like index.html ,and others , also can i use joomla or xampp to run d site on my local system. Please any suggestion n contribution will be really helpful or any1 with pdf too...thank you