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Naming your pages

Let’s assume your LUGNET Member ID number is 1234. When you publish pages, how do you know where your pages should “live” on LUGNET? How do you choose their URLs or web addresses?

The URLs of your pages can be short and simple, for example:

   http://www.lugnet.com/~1234/

or long and complex:

   http://www.lugnet.com/org/us/nelug/~1234/meeting/2000-05-25/notes

But how do you know exactly what is most appropriate? Below is a general framework for LUGNET Member page URLs -- this should help you to recognize proper form:

   http://www.lugnet.com/category/~yourid/subdir/pagename

where:

yourid is your LUGNET Member ID#
category is an existing LUGNET web/news category (optional)
subdir is a subdirectory you define (optional)
pagename is the page name you define (optional)

Together, this information should indicate to others what the content on your page may be.

Examples

To get a better sense for possibilities, please study these examples (which also use the Member ID# 1234):

   http://www.lugnet.com/~1234/
   http://www.lugnet.com/~1234/AboutMe
   http://www.lugnet.com/~1234/Ideas/
   http://www.lugnet.com/~1234/Ideas/Modular/LandingGear
   http://www.lugnet.com/faq/~1234/acronyms
   http://www.lugnet.com/robotics/tele/~1234/webcam/code
   http://www.lugnet.com/castle/org/cw/~1234/
   http://www.lugnet.com/cad/mlcad/~1234/HowTo/Install
   http://www.lugnet.com/loc/us/ma/bos/~1234/map
   http://www.lugnet.com/org/us/nelug/~1234/meeting/2000-05-25/
   http://www.lugnet.com/org/us/nelug/~1234/meeting/2000-05-25/notes

You may be wondering, “Where’s the index.html?” Internally, page URLs ending in / are stored as index.ftx files; any page URLs ending in /foo would be stored as foo.ftx files. Thus, the following two URLs represent the same page:

   http://www.lugnet.com/~1234/Ideas/index   (internally /~1234/index.ftx)
   http://www.lugnet.com/~1234/Ideas/        (internally /~1234/index.ftx)

while these two URLs represent different pages:

   http://www.lugnet.com/~1234/Ideas/   (internally /~1234/Ideas/index.ftx)
   http://www.lugnet.com/~1234/Ideas    (internally /~1234/Ideas.ftx)

Page and directory names

The following characters are allowed in your page and directory names:

Lowercase letters a-z
Uppercase letters A-Z
Numeric digits 0-9
Hyphen -
Underscore _
Tilde ~ (only as Member ID prefix)
Forward-slash / (only as directory separator)

Calendar dates

When writing calendar dates in directory or page names, always use a fixed-size international numeric format with the largest unit first so that a regular alphabetic sort will put the names into proper chronological order.

For example:

Date	Good	Bad

May 25, 2000	`2000-05-25` `2000/05/25`	`5-25-2000` `05-25-2000` `25-05-2000` `May-25-2000` `2000-May-25`

December 11, 1998	`1998-12-11` `1998/12/11`	`12-11-1998` `11-12-1998` `Dec-11-1998` `1998-Dec-11`

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