HTML - Leading To Directory With Index

I use a program (Guardian) to send me notifications when an error occurs on my site (404, 403 etc.) These notices contain the URL causing the error and the referring URL. Lately I have been getting numerous notifications with URLs to directories without index files (On a side note, these URLs also contain within them, urls to other sites. I assume this is some spammer technique and I am not too concerned about this in this post but if someone can shed some light on how/why they (the spammers) do this I would appreciate it.)

My purpose in posting here is to find out about the use of index files in directories. I have read that this is a good idea, but I have yet to hear why except that in case someone navigates to the URL of the directory rather than the actual page URL, then they will not get a 403 error message, but this seems like a rather weak reason to me. Is there another reason? SEO reason? Technical reason?

If I find good reason to do this, is it enough to just put a blank index file in each directory? If so why? What purpose does it serve (aside from thwarting the spammers doing what I described above.) Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi,
I've decided to use subdirectories and index.html files to present my all my web pages (www.website.com/about, with a index.html file within the about folder). But I am finding it difficult to view my website locally when editing, as I open it in either firefox, safari, opera and every time time I hit a link it doesn't direct me to the index.html file, but instead shows me every file located within the directory. Is there anyway round this, as I am having to upload every page to view the changes I make to it. For example, do you know of any extensions or different web browsers that don't do this?
Thanks, Matthew

I am having no luck changing the line spacing of a single paragraph.

I looked online and found something on using it in a div tag:
Code:

div {line-height: 5px;}

but everything else is with CSS.

What would be the simplest way to encode a paragraph with a smaller line space between lines?

Anders

Hi there,

I'm new to this forum; got here researching the best method to do a task in HTML dealing with ordered lists. Basically I'm trying to figure out the best method to have the word "Step" precede the number in an ordered list, so that

<ol>
<li>first line of text</li>
<li>next line of text</li>
<li>last line of text</li>
</ol>

would return

Step 1. first line of text
Step 2. next line of text
Step 3. last line of text

I know how to do this using background images with CSS, but that isn't ideal because any formatting changes to the text would require making a new gif or jpg for the word "step."

Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks for your help!

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