Naming files for the adult web

One thing that I think is helpful to get into early on is a good system for naming your files. When I say 'files', there's really two main different types of files that you'll have control over:

1) Picture files - GIF or JPEG images.
2) HTML files (.htm .html .shtml webpages).

While the bit that appears after the DOT in a filename has to stay the same (eg. file.gif MUST always end in .gif or it won't work...) how you name bit before the DOT is totally up to you. While there's some things you should avoid (which I'll get to in a moment) but what you name your files is up to you, there's no hard and fast rules as to what you should name or rename your files.

Standard site file naming

The exception to this is the index.html file which, if you want people to be able to go to www.domain.com/website/ - you MUST name 'index.html / index.htm / index.shtml.

If you're making a regular adult website I'd recommend sticking to the same formula for each set of files. There should be:

index.html - the homepage / warning page
main.html - the links to the galleries.
fpa.html - the full page ad (can be renamed something more descriptive).
gallery-1.html
gallery-2.html - your gallery pages.
01.html - 24.html: your pic pages (IF you put the pics on html pages...)

Using something descriptive

One thing that will help you out as an adult webmaster is getting renaming files to something useful. You do not have to name a file something complicated like: abg134.gif. You could instead name it foot-fetish-logo-s.gif (s representing 'small'). Or even just something like logo.gif. Naming the files descriptively will make your life much easier down the line when you come back and work with those files again.

Dashes and underscores

Words don't make a lot of sense without a space in between 'em. If you look at "freesexpicture.html" - it's not exactly easy on the eye. You can read it, but it would be easier to read like this "free sex picture.html". The problem there is that file names for the web can NOT have spaces in them. Adding in a hyphen to represent the space: "free-sex-pics.html" is a healthy alternative.

Some people prefer to use an underscore: "free_sex_pics.html" - but there's no advantage one way or another. It's all personal preference.

Remember: NEVER put spaces in a filename for the web. There's never a time when you will need to do that and it can cause problems on your viewer's computer.

Full page ads (FPAs)

When you download FPAs, they'll probably be named "fpaazk13b.html" or something similar. The designer of the full page ad used their own system of naming the file but that probably won't mean much to us. So we need to rename them to our own system. There's nothing at all to stop you renaming those pages to something more descriptive like, "mc-anal-sex-fpa3.html" (Max Cash anal sex full page ad 3).

Remember that you'll probably want to find and re-use full page ads in the near future, and it will be of great benefit if you make their filenames as 'readable' as possible.

A secret shortcut for renaming files...

Here's super-fast way to rename files which not many people know about.

1) Start Windows Explorer (press the Windows key on + E for speed - or just use the start menu...)

2) Select the file you want to rename by clicking it once. (If you have single-click enabled, hold your mouse cursor over the file until it is selected.)

3) Press F2.

4) Type the new file name into the text box, and then press Enter.

This is the fastest way I've found to rename single files.

Stay safe - use lower case letters only

Keep all file names in lower case too. "Free-sex-PICS.JPG" is wrong, whereas "free-sex-pics.jpg" is perfect. Using capitals in your file names means if you don't use the exact same capitals in the html files you make which reference those files, links or images might not work properly. The web is case sensitive. So if you have an image named:

Sex-pic.jpg, and you add it to your page like this:

<img src="sex.pic.jpg">

The image won't load. Keep everything lowercase - including folder names. It's so much more straight forward. One of the main reasons I see for broken images on webpages is the problem I've described above. This could have been avoided by using all lower case filenames for the images.

Ad-blockers and filenames

Avoid naming a file "banner-anything.jpg" or calling a folder "banners/" - this makes it easy for ad-blocking software to prevent those images from loading. Not too many surfers actually use this evil software, but it's something worth thinking about in any case.

You might pick a name for an ad graphic that reminds you what's happening on it: "girl-sucking-own-toes.jpg" for example...

File names and search engines

Some search engine articles suggest that it can help to use keywords in the names of the images. If the phrase you were aiming for was "hardcore anal sex", then having a banner on there named "hardcore-anal-sex.jpg" could help. I'm not sure if this really does help much these days, but it's something you can play with.

Search engine pages can also benefit from being named accordingly, if only to help you remember which phrase you were optimizing the page for. If the phrase was "nude bikini girls" then it's better to rename the page nude-bikini-girls.html. Some articles I've read suggest that having keywords in the the URL like this can help give your page a boost in the rankings. This could be 'search engine myth' but again - test it out for yourself. It only takes seconds to name the file this way.

Myth: search engines will not index pages which are numeric. This is not true. I have seen countless mirror pages Eg. index24.html indexed in my time as an adult webmaster. You will too...

Sequential picture and pic pages naming

If you're making free sites it's probably best to stick to one formula for naming the pics. If you've got 24 pics, then name them 01.jpg up to 24.jpg. Notice that I used a '0' in front of the 1. This is to make the files appear in the correct order on my hard disk. Try it the other way and 10.jpg will appear just after 1.jpg. Adding in a zero keeps the file names in sequential order when you view them on your hard disk.

Remember that if you name your pictures 01.jpg through 24.jpg you can use one site as a template for the next. If a webpage link points to 01.jpg on one site, and you name the pics in the same way for your next site, then you'll not have to edit the html. By copying that website to a new folder and then dropping in 24 new pics, you'll have created a new site. This is a very fast way to build sites.

Finally...

Find a good system for naming files from the start of your adult business. Start naming your files in a logical way, that you'll be able to 'read' later on, and it will make life just a little bit easier.

Hope this helps!!!

TOM ^"^

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