File Names
When naming files, please follow these conventions. These conventions help improve
our ability to identify and manage files, as well as contribute to the page's search
presence.
Pages
- Don't use spaces, underscores, capital letters or special characters, including periods,
question marks, etc.
- Use 1–3 whole words joined by hyphens. The words you choose for a filename, along
with the rest of the URL, should help someone understand what the page is about at
a glance.
Images
- Don't use spaces, underscores, capital letters or special characters, including periods,
question marks, etc.
- Use 1–3 whole words joined by hyphens. Choose words that will help an administrator
or other user understand the content of the image.
- If the photo pertains to an Harper event and you know the year, include the year in
the file name.
- If there are a more than one similar images, you can number them by hyphenating the
number within the file name.
- Append the image dimensions to the end of the file name after the descriptive words
you choose. Separate the dimensions with a hyphen.
In summary, here is the recommended order for this information: (content words)-(year)-(number)-(dimensions).jpg
Examples
Three similar images of a graduation cap from 2022, all sized to 448x256
- graduation-cap-2022-1-448x256.jpg
- graduation-cap-2022-2-448x256.jpg
- graduation-cap-2022-3-448x256.jpg
Here's a little bit of extra info from Google on naming files: https://developers.google.com/style/filenames
