I am using yahoo page builders, but unknowingly named my main page index.html. Through trial and error, i have learned that if I change the name, i will loose any links i have created with other sites. (it says your page is not found) or something like that.
Page builders also states you have to have an index.html page, but i dont want to name my "home page" index…
Please help..what do I do?
Thank you all for your answers! I did not realize that. You have all enlightened me. I will keep the page as is.
Thanks again. Laura http://purestdrinkingwater.com/
The reason i wanted to change it is..because when i do a search for my site http://purestdrinkingwater.com/ it comes up as "index" why is that?
Don’t change the name of your home page. First of all, you don’t have to provide anyone with "index.html" when you share the URL of your website. If your web page is http://foo.com/index.html you can just say http://foo.com
Now – if for some reason you insist that it has to be so (why I don’t know), you can use a meta refresh tag, and direct to another page from your index.html page. How to add meta tags is below.
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/head/meta.html
However, you should be aware that search engines will lower the rank of your index.html page if it is nothing more than a redirect page. I strongly advise against the course of action you are proposing. Leave it as index.html – as I say, you can omit that part of the link and it works anyway.