Naming your Files

Naming your files is very important. Three months from now you may need to locate a specific file. The name of it needs to make sense to you so you can find it easily. Using all numbers or other naming conventions may seem like a good idea while everything is fresh in you mind but further down the road it might be so clear. If you have many files that updated often you may want to use the date as a way of knowing which file is the most recent.

• Never use spaces in your file names
• Always make your file names lower case since some servers interpret upper and lower cases as being different characters.
• Use an underscore to separate multi-word file names.