Guidelines For Saving Files

• If you are not using a text-only editor such as Notepad or UltraEdit, verify that the file type is set to Text or ASCII (or HTML, if that's an option).
  
  
• If you use word processing programs to create HTML documents (not recommended!), save your documents as HTML, Text Only, ASCII, DOS Text, or Text with Line Breaks (the specific options will vary with your word processor).
  
  
• Name the file with an htm or html extension. Windows 3.1x doesn't recognize four character extensions, so you are limited to htm on that platform. html is the preferred extension.
  
  
• Use only letters, numbers, and hyphens (-) in your filename.  You can use spaces, periods, and underscores (_), however these tend to make linking your documents more difficult.
  
  
• As a beginner I recommend you save the document (and the rest of the documents and files associated with a particular project) in one folder. You will find that this makes using links, images, and other advanced effects easier. The majority of these tutorials will assume you do have everything in the same folder.
  
  

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