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Tutorial: Using FrontPage with Radio Weblogs
Choosing a File Extension
In a traditional Web Site we're used to seeing files with either a .htm or .html
file extension (except of course for special files like .asp, .pdf, .doc
etc). If you look inside of your Radio folder you'll notice that all the
files have .txt extensions. This allows Radio to route your files through the
Content Management Server.
When creating your files you can choose either a .html or .txt extension or
have NO extension. Mind boggling. When you reference your files, in
links, you can add the .html extension to the name of the file or have no
extension.
Side note here, unlike "normal" web sites (non-Radio sites) you
can't use every file extension that you normally would. Radio only accepts
the following file types: xml, html, htm, opml, txt, text, rss, ftsc, fttb, root, gif, jpg, jpeg, png, ico, doc, xls, pdf, ppt, css, wav, swf, zip, sit, hqx, gz, svg.
So, for example, you wouldn't be able to upstream any video file types (like
.mpeg, .mov, .avi etc).
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[From
Radio UserLand for developers]
It may help preserve your sanity to use the full file name, but if
you omit the extension, you have flexibility later that you wouldn't
otherwise have. You could change the extension to .txt, so it's routed
through the content management system before serving, or you could
change it to .opml so you could use an outliner to edit it (and also
route it through the CMS). By not including the extensions in the
URLs, you preserve your options for the future, and save a few
characters in your content at the same time.
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Since we're just creating files and adding them to a folder under our WWW
folder we can save them as .html files. When I discuss integrating your
FrontPage files with your Weblog theme you'll see how we need to change the file
extension, as well as do other things that web designers would never
consider. Read on.
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Last update: 1/20/2003; 8:30:51 PM.
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