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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