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Hi Craig,

> However, this seems to cause one of two problems... if they edit the
> pages title at a later date, should that URL value change? - if its
> locked, then the URL is no longer correct for the page... but if it
> gets updated, then links to that page become broken (without some
> additional work for a redirection system).
>
> Another issue I find is that Admin's do get confused if the URL value
> matches another item... the error message like "this URL is already in
> use" can really throw them.
>
> So personally, from the point of view of making the CMS as easy to use
> as possible, I tend to prefer numeric ID's... purely on the basis that
> it is one less thing CMS admins need to worry/think about (and
> ultimately one less thing for them to get wrong).

I've started doing:

www.domain.com/page/{id}/{lowercase-hypenated-title

that way, the url is unique site wide, but still has the title plonked
on the end.

I also have a field 'meta_title', which can be adjusted separately
from the page title which is often used in menus etc - I think I might
add a field 'short_name' for use in menus. I also have fields for
description and keywords, which if populated override the default
values for the site.

cheers,

jb


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