Page and Section URLs

Pages and URLs

When you create a page, you also create a permalink for that page. The permalink can be automatically generated by CHSSWeb from the page's name or you can enter it manually.

A page's full URL consists of:

• The site's address: https://chssweb.gmu.edu
• The address of the section containing the page, if the page is in a section: https://chssweb.gmu.edu/basics
• The page's permalink: editing-your-bio

The final URL as described would be:

• https://chssweb.gmu.edu/basics/editing-your-bio

Sections and URLs

Though sections aren't pages and have no content of their own, sections do have URLs, which are derived from their names, with dashes between words. Section names begin with capital letters; the URLs are lower case. The section gives its URL to each page in the section.

For example, the pages in the "Undergraduate" section have the URL "/undergraduate"

• URL for a page in this section for research -- /undergraduate/research
• URL for a page in this section for advising -- /undergraduate/advising

The pages in the section called "Events Application" have the URL "/events-application"

• URL for a general page about the application -- /events-application/about
• URL for a page about best practices -- /events-application/best-practices

If you type in just the URL for the section, you get the first page in that section. So, for example, if you type yourdepartment.gmu.edu/undergraduate (economics.gmu.edu/undergraduate; psychology.gmu.edu/undergraduate), you will get the first page in the "Undergraduate" section, probably a page called "For Undergraduate Students."

The URL of the section also appears in the breadcrumb at the top of each page in the section.