I am revamping a website where the previous web designer saved all the site files as .asp; however, all the pages are static. Is there an advantage of using .asp over .htm? My platform is Dreamweaver. When I try to preview the .asp pages in a browser, I get an error message indicating that I need to set up a test server. Since there are only 10 pages total, the site is getting updated and there isn't a database involved...why would a designer have used .asp in the first place?

The only reason you would need to save the pages as .asp is if there is some asp (server side) scripting on the pages. If you dont see any asp code in the actual source files, there is no need to save them as .asp

Perhaps the original designer had intended to eventually add database driven content or something...

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