Hello People!

Having never coded in asp (all of my sites are hand coded html) I am not really sure what I am doing, but I hope you can answer my question.

Here goes:

I have just taken over the task of updating the website of a record shop as the person who designed it hadn't a clue about SEO, and so the site has very little traffic. What I would like to do is to change the index page from being an .asp page (called default.asp) to being a html page which you click "ENTER" and it takes you to the page that is the index at present. How do I do this? Can I just make an index.html page and put the "ENTER" link as default.asp? or is it more complex than this?

Any help is appreciated.

Hi,

you could rename the default.asp to start.asp or so, and write a new default.asp where you make the enter-link which is linked to default.asp.
greets,
ben

girliebob, your idea of using index.html and leaving the default.asp as is should work. If I remember correctly, index.html is the first page it looks for.

If I remember correctly, index.html is the first page it looks for.

Of course, it does all depend on how you have your server set up. default.asp sounds like IIS.

default.asp is IIS. By default, I think most servers will look for index.html first.

By Default the default page of IIS is Default.asp ( pun unintended).
Someone ( Oh.. System Administrator) has to make IIS realise that index.html( index.asp, index.php etc) also denotes the first page of the website.

I just looked up what the default documents are on my windows server, IIS has not yet been touched and it, by default, is looking for documents in the following order: default.htm, default.asp, iisstart.asp

So if you had deafult.htm and default.asp both in the directory... default.htm would be the one that would be displayed.

Why do you want to change the page from an asp file to a html one?

Either can have the same html contents. an asp one just lets you do server side stuff as well.

most servers look for index.html before default.asp, thus if you create the page and name it index.html you should be fine. It'll open up first in the queue when someone goes to your url