remove .html extension all pages

What? You want to name your files without an extension?

Why do you think you need this?

A typical site will look like this:

     yoursite.com/about.html

     yoursite.com/contact.html

     yoursite.com/services.html    

To change links to this:

     yoursite.com/about/

     yoursite.com/contact/

     yoursite.com/services/

You must create separate folders and put an index.html file inside each one.

     yoursite.com/about/index.html

     yoursite.com/contact/index.html

     yoursite.com/services/index.html

IMO, this is a terrible way to organize a site.  But your mileage may vary.

Nancy O.

You can save pages in a folder each, always called index.html

So instead of:

www.mysite.com/mypage.html

Have:

www.mysite.com/mypage/index.html

And when you link, always just link to the folder name to get the default page loaded, e.g.,

<a href="/mypage">This will link to index.html in the mypage folder</a>

HOWEVER, if you have many files in your site, trying to do this for every page will quickly become gruesomely awkward.

I tend to do it a lot I must admit, which clients tend to prefer, although its less than useful when I try to open a recent file.

Is here a more involved way of doing it that larger, well known sites tend to use, or is this method pretty much it?

Call it whatever you want. Doesn't matter as long as you put a default filename file IN the folder, and link to it correctly.

So make a folder called 'gocloud' and rename this gocloud.html file as index.html, and put it into the gocloud folder. Then

<a href="gocloud">This will link to the index.html file in the gocloud folder (assuming that the file containing the link is in a folder that also contains the gocloud folder).</a>

I think you might be looking to do a URL rewrite in the sites .htaccess file... this would eradicate the need for lots of folders.

I would give advice on this, but I have never managed to get it to work even though I understand the pricipals of it.

Google it and also read this tut as apparently, it's a good one:

http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/02/introduction-to-url-rewriting/

AND, when you get it working, let me have the code... I tried for days and was bought to points of rage and frustration that I didn't think existed in me!

Contact your host.  It could be you're on shared hosting and your web host doesn't permit URL re-writing.   Or, it might be something they could do for you at a higher level than you have access to. 

Nancy O.