The web address (URL) of your page
Advisory
Overview
By default, whatever you use as a section name will be used as the final segment in the web address (also know as the URL) of your page. (This does not apply to link sections; their names do not affect web addresses).
When section name text is used for a URL in this way, the text will be converted to lowercase, and all spaces between words will be removed; the merged result then becomes part of the URL.
A multi-word section name can therefore result in a URL which is hard to read, hard to remember, ambiguous in meaning, and not helpful for search engines.
This means that if the section name of your page is more than one word long, it's important that you override this setting by creating a URI.
Example
If you have a webpage with the URL https://www.exeter.ac.uk/polar/ and within that section in T4 you create a new section that you name 'Arctic habitat', then the default URL of your new page would be https://www.exeter.ac.uk/polar/arctichabitat/.
If the section name is more then one word long, as in this example, then you must add an output URI to your page, placing hyphens between the words. The above example would then have a URL of https://www.exeter.ac.uk/polar/arctic-habitat/, even though the section name is 'Arctic habitat' (without a hyphen).
Technical terms
URL
URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator, which is the original technical term for a web address. 'URL' is often used in web documentation, simply because it's shorter than 'web address'.
Path segment
A path segment is the part between forward slashes in a web address, sometimes just referred to as a segment. For example, in the web address https://www.exeter.ac.uk/polar/weather/seasons/, 'polar', 'weather' and 'seasons' are all path segments.
Further reading
To fully understand the URL of your page, please read the following in order:
