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Joomla! 1.6 User Manual

3 Naming Conventions

• Manual Home Page

Can I Create a New Page?

Please fell free but please follow the Naming Conventions here.

• This Manual is a tree.
• At the top of each page an inserted routine builds the standard page header.
• Pages must be named according to the following convention for that to work.
• These conventions will also help in two further important areas to improve the already wide appeal of Joomla!
  • Help Pages - it is intended that the Manual and Help Pages should share the same text. These conventions help that.
  • Localisation - it is easier to manage multi lingual pages if these conventions are followed.

• Make the name MEANINGFUL. You can use names with spaces between words. Wikipedia swops between spaces and underscores depending on context.
• NEVER use dot separators. They confuse mod_rewrite and create loads of hassle
• Group in the usual directory manner using forward slashes /
  • The Manual Header will then
    • Put the last part of the URL at the top of the page.
    • Provide a link back up to the level above.
    • Create a Table of Contents for your page with internal anchors.

Example
Here is a simple example of a page which is not likely to change rapidly.
It has been used as a device to stop the URL's growing too long.

• Please ask if you have any problems

• Thank you for contributing.