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When you create and save a new web page on Dreamweaver,
it will be an “htm” file.
So if you make a page and call it “page1,”
it will be saved as a file called “page1.htm.”
(Some
webpage programs will instead make “html” files, and
these work exactly the same way as “htm” files.)
Now let’s say your website is called mywebsite.com.
You’ve been working tirelessly with Dreamweaver
and you’ve made ten pages for your new website. You’ve
saved and uploaded them as page1.htm, page2.htm, page3.htm,
etc.
You
tell your friend to check out what you’ve done. So your friend
gets on the internet and types in www.mywebsite.com.
The mysterious computers that run the World Wide Web see
that someone has typed in mywebsite.com, so they direct this
person to lunarpages,
where the content for this site is stored. Your folder at
lunarpages
is opened so your friend can see what’s inside.
Your
friend is not impressed. All she can see is a list of links: page1.htm,
page2.htm, page3.htm, etc. She can click on the links to see what
you’ve done, or if she types www.mywebsite/page1.htm into
her address bar, she'll see your page1.htm—but
that’s not the way it’s supposed to work.
That’s
because you never created and uploaded a “home page.”
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