Best Practices and Accessibility

Friendly URLs make it easy to quickly see and understand the purpose of the page. For example, /g=46515&p=365289 is not intuitive but /libguidesintro/thebasics carries meaning.

• Friendly URLs should be added to all pages.
• Should always be lowercase.
• Don't use spaces! Either use dashes or combine into one word.
• Limit to one or two words.

The friendly URLs can be set in the following ways:

• Guide: click the pencil next to the URL label
• Page: click the pencil icon in the bordered box next to the Page URL label. This must be set for every page.

Every guide should be assigned appropriate tags and subjects that specify the content of the guide.

• Tagging helps to organize guides and makes them searchable.
• Add tags that are appropriate for the content of your guide.
• New tags can be created but you should also reuse tags as much as possible.

Multi-word tags can now be entered with spaces between words. Underlines are no longer necessary.

Need to add info on assigning Groups and Types of guides as well as Subjects (Pathways and other)