1. Click on "File" and then "Save."

2. Find your folder called "Web Site."

3. Name your file "index.html" This is very important.

There are two reasons we name the start page in each folder "index". First of all, browsers are programmed to look for the index page as a start page. If you do not name your page index, then the browser won't know where to start.

An example: The URL (web site address) of the University of Alabama is: http://www.ua.edu The actual file name for this page is "index.html" If browsers weren't programmed this way, we would have to type in: http://www.ua.edu/index.html every time we wanted to go to the UA homepage. If you name your file "home.html" or "myhomepage.html" or something like that, you will always have to type out the full address.

The second reason that we want to call our start page "index.html" is that if we didn't, and someone typed in the URL of my homepage without my correct file name, they would get a literal index of all the files in my site. I don't want anyone knowing what files I have, especially if something is secure or copyrighted.