Web Content Management System: Activedition

Naming of Areas

Activedition provides two names for an Area: a Display name and a System name.

The Display name will be what will appear in the URL. For example, for Education the Display name will be ‘education’ but the System name will be ‘(ed-) education’ to indicate that pages within that area must have the prefix ‘ed-‘. eg ed-study, ed-courses. Display names should be lower-case only and not contain capital letters.

The System name will be the reference name internal to the CMS, involving the agreed acronym for the top-level URL with the prefix to be used for pages within that area.

Where Sub-Areas are created, the System name should again reflect the content and the System name must inherit the prefix of the top level area. This should be indicated in the area name.

Top-level area names (ie xxxx in the URL  www.reading.ac.uk/xxxx ) will be agreed between Branding and the Sub-Administrators of the site.  Wherever possible these will be intuitive names or acronyms for the site being represented by the URL.

Names for Internal areas should follow the same convention as for public areas, but with the addition of ‘-internal’. For example, the internal area for education should be 'ed-education-internal' (see table below).  Naming of Closed areas will follow the same convention.

AREA NAMES	Display name (URL) ‘Published’ name in the webCMS	System name ‘Title’ in the webCMS
Public area	law	(law-) law
Internal area	internal/law	(law-) law-internal
Closed area	closed/law	(law-) law-closed