File Structure in HTML Mode is Problematic


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Posted: 5/30/2012
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I'm hoping this gets read by the developers.

I've made a topic on this before about how site files in HTML templates do not follow conventional structure.

For instance index pages whether in the root or another folder should be pointed to by a simple "/" instead of the file name (or give us the choice).

Also, we should be able to designate a page as a folder. Maybe Oftentimes I'm planning to put a CMS or something else in the folder and I don't want to change the menu by hand after every revision.

Another thing I've noticed is that the page file names all have a dot in front of them. They no not need this. It seems to be making some search engines confused. My stats are showing spiders looking at the same thing over and over thinking it's something different. The dot means "go back" so I don't know what it's doing in front of file names.

I'm seeing this a lot in web stats for sites where I didn't manually change the file names.

example.html
/./example.html
/././example.html

It creates potential for false duplicate content. Maybe some of the spiders could be smarter, but there's no need for that dot.