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[Guest]

Hello,

Why do some of my pages have numbers and a percent sign in the url, for
instance:

http://www.westcoastmopar.org/Plant City.htm

Thanks, Ralph

 

[chris]

%20 means a space. Don't name web files and folders with spaces.

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

Because you are using spaces in your file and folder names...don't. Spaces
will appear as %20, while you are at it don't use capitalization either.
You can use a dash instead of a space -



| Hello,
|
| Why do some of my pages have numbers and a percent sign in the url, for
| instance:
|
| http://www.westcoastmopar.org/Plant City.htm
|
| Thanks, Ralph

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

URLs have a certain set of legal characters. Pretty much a normal alpha
character (a-z) or numeric (0-9) are valid. Once you get into other
characters such as & or even a space, you run into problems as they are
illegal to have in the name of a page. To overcome this there are a series
of special character codes that were create to replace these. It's a bit
technical, but here's a decent example of how URL encoding works.

http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

 

[Guest]

Thank you all very much, I groan out loud as my newbie status shines through...