website help please

[peekaboo]

I'm in charge of updating my lab's website.
I am an ultra noob web designer.

I built two new pages and left the old ones practically untouched. The new pages end with .html while the old ones end with .htm

A google search still gives me the .htm pages (which are no longer online). how do i get my new pages to show up?

A google search for my name turns up other websites where it appears, including my university, but not the page that i designed which includes my name.

[faulkner132]

Assuming they have been linked to by your other pages, they will eventually be added when Google crawls your site. Just be patient.

[hartken]

Yeah, htm is no big deal. The only reason for that extension was the older file system in Windows 95 could only use three letter extensions, hence .htm. That takes me back a long ways.

You could do a number of things right now. You could modify the header to point to your new page, or use a meta refresh to redirect from Google.

[peekaboo]

could you please tell me how to do both those things?

[blue60007]

Like faulkner said, Google should crawl your site again and re-list the right address. Just give it some time.

[mairving]

If the pages are replacements for the others, then just rename them to .htm. A meta refresh is pretty easy. First you would need to create a blank page for the old page. Then add the following in the head section of the page. You could change the 0 value to something like 5 (seconds to redirect) and put a message on the page stating that you are redirecting.
<META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="0; URL=http://newpage.html/" >

You could also accomplish this with mod_rewrite but it is a bit more difficult.