I have a long time websie that I built with MS Frontpage. Unfortunately I had to finally abandon Frontpage because I was not having any luck with Windows 7 computers working with it and MS and most hosting companes have abandoned it.

I have been rebuilding this same website with VSD and have been happy with the software.

Here is the rub. I was careful to rebuild the pages using the same page names. However VSD seems to publish everything with a .html, and on the original website everything is .htm.

When you do a google search for the website the original pages come up with the .htm extension and now when you click on them you basically get a "not found". Of course I want people to be able to find the website with the rankings that have been built up over the years on google.

Is there a way to rename the pages produced in VSD with .htm?

I did a search of the forum and apparently .htm and .html are the same thing from what I read. Thanks in advance for your help

Specify permanent redirects in the .htaccess file for each of the pages, for example like this:

Redirect 301 /index.htm http://www.[mywebsite].com/index.html
Redirect 301 /page2.htm http://www.[mywebsite].com/page2.html
etc...

Go to Google Webmaster help pages for details if need be...

Patricia,
Just in case you found my post above to be a bit "too concise", there are lots of places on the web that give fuller explanations. Here is one page I found through Google that gives a pretty straight-forward explanation: http://www.isitebuild.com/301-redirect.htm
Post back if you have any problems!

Thank you. You pointed me in the right direction!