They are what you call search engine friendly URL's. Forget that for the momment if you are just starting, thats pretty advanced stuff.
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They are what you call search engine friendly URL's. Forget that for the momment if you are just starting, thats pretty advanced stuff.
There are actually a number of common extensions beyond .html and .php recognized by browsers (.htm, .asp, .jsp, .cfm, etc...). Generally speaking if there is no file extension at the end of the path, it's assumed your working out of a directory. Your webserver will then scan that directory file for a special index file (usually index.html, index.htm, index.php, index.asp, etc...). And it will be this file that you are actually seeing (www.something.com/portfolio probably equals www.something.com/portfolio/index.html) Controlling this is called the directoryindex and the priority of these files can be changed by a special file called .htaccess.
There are also something called URL rewriting which is a bit more complicated but is interesting stuff that you can all controll with a .htaccess file. Here is a primer: http://corz.org/serv/tricks/htaccess2.php
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