Naming Conventions

Naming Files

When naming your web files, inlcuding images, documents and PDFs:

1. Use hyphens instead of underscores. For example: my-page-name.cfm or history-notes-2008.pdf
2. Do not include spaces in the file name.
3. Do not use special characters in the file name.
4. If possible use all lowercase for the file name.

Page Titles

Xavier's site analytics require that page titles only use hyphens and do not use any of the following:

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We recommend using the following page title convention on all pages:

Xavier University - Department - Page Name

or

Xavier University - Site Name - Page Name