Web page conventions (MGDP2060)

Student web pages should follow these conventions:

File organization

All of your web page files (the HTML documents, CSS documents, image files, etc.) go in a folder known as the local root folder (or various similar names).

• Local because it's on your local computer (as opposed to Remote -- the web server)
• Root because it contains your Home page, along with sub-folders

Naming conventions

• File and folder names as specified in exercises
  • Where not specified, your choice of file and folder names -- but see file naming restrictions below

File naming restrictions

Names of files and folders:

• Must begin with a letter
• Must be letters which have keys on a standard keyboard
• Must not contain space characters
• Must not contain any of the following characters (unless you can justify why you need it):

~ @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) { } [ ] | \ / ? < > , : ;

Acceptable (other than first character in name):

• Numbers
• Hyphen -
• Underscore _

Note that the neither the hyphen nor the underscore is a "dash". There is no "dash" key on a standard keyboard.