Links to home page not working

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TPeterson79

I just started a site and I have a links bar at the top of each page that directs you to all the pages in the website. I'm having problems with the link going to the home page. Everytime you click on the home page, it goes to this link..www.mydomain.com/index.ht

the /index.htm is making it not work and I'm not sure what to really do. I don't know how to take that out. My index.htm should be my home page, but for some reason it's displaying that at the end of the home page which causes it to not work. Can anyone help with with this matter? I also have a couple pictures that didn't show up once I published it, but they worked in front page and when I preview it under a browser. So I don't understand that either
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

That is normal. If a user just types in:
http://www.keepinggolfsimple.com/
they are really look at:
http://www.keepinggolfsimple.com/index.htm

But once they are in your site, click the Home link will then take them to:
http://www.keepinggolfsimple.com/index.htm

Also remove all spaces from folder or file names, as that will result in broken hyperlink in some
browsers.

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TPeterson79 said:
The URL is www.keepinggolfsimple.com

The home page has the /index.htm at the end. Is that normal? Is there a way to just show the
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..com and nothing at the end of it?
 
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wp

It is working properly. You could change the hyperlink without the index.htm, but I don't see any advantage and would probably slow things up a bit.
 
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TPeterson79

It seems to be working now as well. Earlier my frong page extension for the home page was listed as INDEX.htm and I simply changed it to index.htm. Didn't think the caps would make a difference, but the home page loads fine everytime now. Seems the smallest little things makes a difference in FP.

I have another question for you. I believe I just published it late this morning sometime. When I do an internet search for my site, nothing comes up, why? I registered my url with different search engines (at least I think I did it right)

Could there be a reason it doesn't show up under any search engines?
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

Case makes a difference when hosted on a Unix/Linux server.

Search engine indexing can take 6 to 8 weeks or longer, unless paying for placement.

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Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
WEBMASTER Resources(tm)

FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
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TPeterson79 said:
It seems to be working now as well. Earlier my frong page extension for the home page was listed
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as INDEX.htm and I simply changed it to index.htm. Didn't think the caps would make a difference,
but the home page loads fine everytime now. Seems the smallest little things makes a difference in
FP.
I have another question for you. I believe I just published it late this morning sometime. When I
Click to expand...
do an internet search for my site, nothing comes up, why? I registered my url with different search
engines (at least I think I did it right).
 
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TPeterson79

I believe it's on a lunix server. Could be mistaken. So it normally takes a long time to even get listed? I just didn't know how that normally worked. It wasn't a big concern now. I didn't know if I had to do anything else or if it just happens over time. I do have meta tags on it through FP which should help a little.
 
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