How do web sites make a page without the suffix .html at the end?
For instance, http://www.lib.duke.edu/suggest/
the suggest page is obviously html, yet it has no .html at the end. How do you do that? Is it something to do with dreamweaver software?
ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: If the URL ends in the directory name, as in your example, where the filename is unspecified, then the browswer will open a default “index” file. It’s often called index.htm or index.html, but the server can be configured to return a file of any other name as the default when no filename is in the URL.
Beyond that, browswers can open all sorts of other files. Graphic (JPEG, GIF, etc.), audio-visual (Cold Fusion, .cfn), text (.txt), and made-on-the-fly pages (created from databases, etc.). I’ve seen a million extensions. You should peruse one of the many good books on HTML, web authoring, web servers, and the like.