[tan zhiyong]

Hi i am an amature when it comes to building websites, well i have the design part down but its more so the setting it up part where i run into trouble.

So a few questions i have

Im using dreamweaver and when i create a page, ie. home page title home.php

Q1 At no point have i givin this page or anyother page an actual url. So my question is . when someone types my address into the address bar eg. www.mywebsite.com or whatever how are people directed to the home.php page and the same goes for when i link a tab such as contact tab is linking to contact.php or do i have to actually name the pages www.sitename.com/home for example please help me understand as i said im new to this????????? .

Q2 i have created all my pages in .php form but do i need an .html copy for ever page when i upload everything?

Q3 This is for anyone using DreamWeaver cs3.
At one point while editing in DW when i click to preview in browser the page opens as always but i was able to click a link or tab on the page i opened in the browser and it would instantly bring that page up in the browser but for some reason now it is brining up a save/open or cancel box asking me to select one of the three even if i click save or open, the browser will not display the page i have asked for anymore, even though the pages are all saved. Anyway is there a setting or something that i have changed .

Many thanks to the person who replies and i will thank you again for your help.

[Hybr!d]

Call each of your pages whatever you want, your home page should be called index only however so it shows when people enter just the domain name..

You will probably be setup for standard ie:contact.php or news.html depending on what you are coding in.

Sites using domain.com/folder/this-is-a-page/ (like we do, even though we are running php pages) are using mod rewrite to make the urls in that format.