Alphanumeric LIFE STORIES BLOG titles given to correctly titled pages.

The point of this post is to tell what I think I figured out about why some pages in a blog have names which are alphanumeric even though on the face of it, there is no reason for it.
I just finished setting up MassReplaceIt to edit out my 19 pages of .js files. (I added songs to those pages.)
While entering the files to be edited in MRI, I noticed yet again that FOUR of the 19 files have an alphanumeric name, not the "real" name that I gave them. There is nothing in the titles of those four pages (in my LIFE STORIES BLOG) to trigger an alphanumeric name. Other pages in my LIFE STORIES BLOG are just fine with regular names.
Therefore, I am suspecting that a BLOG page that has a song added to it will get an alphanumeric name, period, no questions asked.
If anyone has personal experience to the contrary, please let me know.
The iWeb blogs have got to be the most problematic of all its aspects. For the second time, I went in to edit out a Life Story blog entry, and later on I noticed that one blog entry was out of order and became the most recent/newest entry rather than the much much earlier entry that it started out as.
So I would recommend that if you ever go to edit a blog entry, check the date and time because it did change and you do have to change it back. And if I am wrong, again, please do let me know so I can adjust my thinking.
Lorna in Southern California

Lorna,
For what it's worth, I noticed that every entry in
your blog has the long, random name. Here are the
names of the ones on your blog summary page...
'10CA6A74-1ED3-4104-8107-574AC88C075B.html'
'1FBD59CC-511B-40AD-9202-F764562DF9E9.html'
'349439DF-A6B0-4E9E-83A3-CF36522B4E50.html'
'214CA829-7494-4FE6-AD66-F9552EED68C7.html'
'008E7E9F-7995-497F-95CA-CCBFDE060786.html'
'EEFCA090-6FEC-4271-BA70-0AB6B6CA6854.html'
'C5F2A933-3B99-421C-A419-E1809BF7E2AA.html'
'07EE168C-526B-4FAC-A999-B21CE8C7B907.html'
'599838F2-6AFB-459D-93FE-133D82618D61.html'
'7B497196-C93A-4767-8F02-3CD1E7CCD363.html'
'0DCCE952-30AB-473E-BD03-B6E3ECCFABF5.html'
'9D0FC3DB-FE3A-4C7E-B109-E6836CCE96C3.html'
'46933E9E-5BB4-4DA4-9F38-46DC5B570E24.html'
'306E1972-DA15-4C5F-9E73-32A647B6516F.html'
'0D16228F-2072-440E-8419-D6A94103EDAE.html'
.......... Lorna says ................................................
OMIGOD, James, you're right! I got the wrong impression because I was probably looking at the wrong place, comparing the long alphanumerics with "normals"...........
My blog is the same way. It is my impression that
this is the way blog URLs are meant to be. This is
different from other non-blog pages, though. Prior
to iWeb 1.1, even non-blog pages would often get this
randomly generated URL anytime punctuation was used
or any other non-alphanumeric character was included
in the page name. iWeb 1.1 supposedly fixed this
behavior. But blog titles still keep the long
non-sensical URL.
.......... Lorna says ................................................
And James, the odd thing is that the name of my second site is 4th Down, with an ARABIC NUMERAL....... and it comes out just fine in the files -- no alphanumeric name!
But all in all, Lorna, there is NOTHING wrong with
these URLs. They are perfectly legal in terms of
URL-ease. And I am sure there is some meaning to
them in the eyes of iWeb or other computers. With
that many numbers and letters, the chance of
misaddressing a page from a computer's standpoint is
very small.
.......... Lorna says ................................................
There has been a practical difference in having those file names go alphanumeric, though, and that is when I had to (before MassReplaceIt) search through my files and find the exact correct one. It is easier to find the .js file named Baker Company than HO3j11RRMM9990337, especially when it is near a file named HO3j11RRMN9990337 or any variant more or less easily spotted by the casual eyeball. Just having to find the first 5 or the last 5 alphanumerics is already more work than just looking for Baker Company. But it is good news to know that it is a perfectly legal name and not one which I will fear will get me into trouble someday.
ll
Lorna in Southern California

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