Naming Sites and Pages

General Naming Conventions

We should adhere to the following best practices when naming any sites or pages for the website:

Guidelines:

• No capital letters
• Dashes in places of spaces
• No underscores
• Keep verbiage concise
• No articles or conjuctions (a/an/the/of/and/or/but)
• Avoid abbreviations when possible

Example File Names:

Specific Naming Conventions and Best Practices

Campus Abbreviations

When specifying a subsite or page for a specific campus, instead of using the full campus name, we are sticking with the three-letter abbreviation.

.
└── advising/
    ├── bhc/
    ├── cvc/
    ├── efc/
    ├── ecc/
    ├── mvc/
    ├── nlc/
    └── rlc/

.
└── advising/
    └── pages/
        ├── bhc.aspx
        ├── cvc.aspx
        ├── efc.aspx
        ├── ecc.aspx
        ├── mvc.aspx
        ├── nlc.aspx
        └── rlc.aspx

Bio Pages

For bio pages, the page file name should be [first]-[last].aspx and not include any titles, degrees, initials or abbreviations.