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Standards and Guidelines: Friendly URLs for LibGuides

Friendly URLs - Essential

  • Create meaningful friendly URLs and keep them as short as possible.
  • Use lower case only.
  • Do not add space or underscores.
  • Do not change friendly URLs once you have published them.

Friendly URLs for Subject LibGuides

  • Create meaningful friendly URLs and keep them as short as possible e.g. for Interior Design and Product Design use interiordesign
  • Use no more than two words without space or use abbreviations e.g. communityengagement or whs
  • Use lower case only
  • Do not add space or underscores
  • Do not change friendly URLs once you have published them

Friendly URLs for Support Guides

  • Create meaningful friendly URLs and keep them as short as possible e.g. wifisupport 
  • Friendly URLs for eResources guides include the short name of the eResource + the word support  e.g. standardsonlinesupport
  • Use no more than two words without space if possible, unless it is required e.g. linkedinlearningsupport
  • Use lower case only.
  • Do not add space or underscores.
  • Do not change friendly URLs once you have published them.
Friendly URLs for pages
  • Getting started page e.g. pressreadersupport/gettingstarted
  • Features and searching page e.g. pressreadersupport/features
  • Mobile app/s page e.g. pressreadersupport/app
  • Teaching with page e.g. pressreadersupport/teaching
  • Help and FAQ page e.g. pressreadersupport/help

If other pages and friendly URLs are required, check with the Standards and Guidelines group for the appropriate naming.

Agreed Page Names and Friendly URLs

Page names
  • Welcome
  • eResources
  • Web Resources
  • Research Skills 
  • Topics
Friendly URL extension for agreed page names

welcome
eresources
webresources
topics

Please note: the Researching and Referencing page will not get a friendly URL for the page because it is a redirect. Use the friendly URL of the Researching and Referencing LibGuide instead to link to it: https://tafensw.libguides.com/research

Friendly URLs for Pages Including Topic Pages

  • Create friendly URLs for all pages and sub-pages except for pages that redirect to another page or guide e.g. Researching and Referencing.
  • Create meaningful friendly URLs and keep them as short as possible.
  • When topic pages combine two or more topics, use words from the first listed topic only.
  • Use agreed friendly URL names where applicable.
  • Use no more than two words without space or use abbreviations e.g. breadbaking or whs.
  • Use lower case only.
  • Do not add space or underscores.
  • Do not change friendly URLs once you have published them.

Friendly URL Examples - Laboratory Operations LibGuide

Agreed friendly URLs

https://tafensw.libguides.com/laboratory/welcome

https://tafensw.libguides.com/laboratory/eresources

https://tafensw.libguides.com/laboratory/webresources

https://tafensw.libguides.com/laboratory/topics

 
Friendly URLs for topics

https://tafensw.libguides.com/laboratory/calibration

https://tafensw.libguides.com/laboratory/analyticalchemistry

https://tafensw.libguides.com/laboratory/safety

Friendly URLs for Higher Education (HE) LibGuides

For guides

Acceptable friendly URL exensions:

  • Bachelor degree: heearlychildhood
  • Diploma: hedinformationtechnology
  • Graduate certificate: hegcearlychildhood
  • Graduate diploma: hegdearlychildhood

e.g. heappliedcommerce for the Bachelor of Applied Commerce

Essential:

  • Keep the friendly URLs as meaningful and as short as possible e.g. for the Graduate Diploma of Education Early Childhood (Birth-5) start with he for higher education, followed by the abbreviation for graduate diploma gd and then add the short title for the course (2 words only) e.g. hegdearlychildhood
  • Use no more than 3 words including the degree abbreviation without space.
  • Use lower case only
  • Do not add space or underscores
  • Do not change friendly URLs once you have published them
For HE specific pages
  • Option 1: Friendly URLs for HE readings pages by year have the year and the number added e.g. heappliedcommerce/year2
  • Option 2: Friendly URLs for HE readings pages by level have the level and the number added e.g. heappliedcommerce/level300
  • Option 3: Friendly URLs for HE readings pages (Subjects only) e.g. heappliedcommerce/subjects

Add the subject code all small letters to friendly URLs for the subject pages of the readings pages e.g. heappliedcommerce/acact201a

  • Option 4: Friendly URLs for HE readings pages (Topics only)  e.g. hesustainablepractice/topics