As you embark on your journey into website design, one of the initial lessons involves mastering the process of saving documents as web pages. Numerous tutorials and introductory articles on web design emphasize the importance of naming your initial HTML document as "index.html." Let's delve into the significance of this widely adopted naming convention within the industry. <h2 class="PlaygroundEditorTheme__h2" dir="ltr">Default Homepage on editor.do</h2> On editor.do, the root page displayed when you go to the root of a domain or subdomain, e.g. <a href="https://example.com" class="PlaygroundEditorTheme__link">https://example.com</a>, will always be index.html - This rule also applies to each folder in a domain - If this page is not available (you haven't created or deleted it), the error-page.html page will be displayed. - In the drag &amp; drop editor, if you want the page you create to be the index, just name it index when you save it.

As you embark on your journey into website design, one of the initial lessons involves mastering the process of saving documents as web pages. Numerous tutorials and introductory articles on web design emphasize the importance of naming your initial HTML document as "index.html." Let's delve into the significance of this widely adopted naming convention within the industry.

## Default Homepage on editor.do

On editor.do, the root page displayed when you go to the root of a domain or subdomain, e.g.[https://example.com](https://example.com), will always be****index.html****

\- This rule also applies to each folder in a domain

\- If this page is not available (you haven't created or deleted it), the error-page.html page will be displayed.

\- In the drag & drop editor, if you want the page you create to be the index, just name it****index****when you save it.

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