The web address (URL) of your page
Advisory
The information on this page is only applicable if you're editing the University webpages using T4. It presumes that you have already completed the beginners and advanced level of the T4 training (a link for staff only - opens in new window).
Overview
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 used for this purpose, the text in your section name will be converted to lowercase, and all spaces will be removed; the result then becomes part of the URL.
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 URL of your new page will be https://www.exeter.ac.uk/polar/arctichabitat/.
If the section name is more then one word long, as in this example, then it's recommended that you 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:
