SSI and shtml links

[michaelstevenso]

SSI questions
I'm about to upload my existing site with SSI's. My concern is do I have to create a 'redirect' page from the idex.html to point to the new index.shtml?

Another concern is: what about the sites, links, directories, search engines, web rings, etc., that have listed my site? Will the change from html to shtml stop the current links to work? Isn't there a means (by a CLASS call or something) to allow the new site to be called i.e. http://www.waterfallrecordings.com where the new extension would still permit the links from other sites to remain valid, if that is even necessasary?

Should I change all the page calls from within my site to, for example, "waterfallrecordings.com/index.shtml/" adding the slash? Wouldn't this cause the browser to search only once for the page instead of checking twice?

One more question: should I keep the DOCTYPE as <.!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/
REC-html40/loose.dtd">, or would it be advisable to change it to HTML 4.01 Frameset DTD <.!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">?

I would appreciate any help I can get!

Thank you in advance,
Michael Stevenson


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Take care,
Michael Stevenson
mstevenson@waterfallrecordings.com
http://www.waterfallrecordings.com

[PeOfEo]

Got any server side languages at your disposal?

waterfallrecordings.com/index.shtml/ would give you a 404 because the browser would thing index.shtml is a directory. Stop using html 4.01 transitional, move up to xhtml 1.0 strict or transitional.
Ps: on your site, drop the <center> and <font> tags. Don't use them. Let CSS handle that. Those tags are deprecated, and if you do it with css you code will be easier to maintain and cleaner.