Naming Conventions

Page Titles and Names
Providing a good title for Web site pages is an essential component for successful Web searches. Your Web page titles should:

  • provide the user with useful bookmark and history information;
  • be unique for every page;
  • use abbreviations consistently; and
  • be as short as possible.

Examples:

Main Section Titles
Auburn University Ginn College of Engineering

Aerospace Engineering - Auburn University Ginn College of Engineering

Sub Section Titles
Student Services - Auburn University Ginn College of Engineering
Student Information - Auburn University Ginn College of Engineering

About Us - Aerospace Engineering
Research - Aerospace Engineering

Page titles in the Virticle Site Manager (VSM) are also used for the page names.  The title "Mission Statement - Aerospace Engineering" should be changed to mission-statement-aerospace-engineering.html.  With a page name you don't have to be specific, you can change the name to mission-statement.html. Keep in mind when you create a new page, the title of the page will be used as the page name or file name. So if the title is long go to the page name and shorten it.

Example

  • This is a new page
  • will be saved as, this-is-a-new-page.html

Also page names can be to long.  With the above example you can shorten the page name to, new-page.html.


Article Names
The article name should be descriptive.  Virticle site Manager will use this name for the headline of the article and the article system filing name.

 Example:  This is New Article

File, Image and Photograph Names
The names for files, images and photographs should always carry your department's abbreviation at the end.  Virticle Site Manager (VSM) will automatically handle the extension.  Uppercase is used in the file, image and photograph names for the department's abbreviation.  Please be descriptive when naming your files, images and photographs.

Example: image/file/photograph name - AERO