Minnesota Department of Transportation

511 Travel Info

Design System

Naming standards for directories and pages

Standards

  • Use lower case letters for subdirectory and file names
  • Do not use spaces, special characters such as %!@#$^&*() or underscores. Use dashes to separate words.
  • Try not to use words such as and, of, with, to in filenames
  • Always use .html extension for HTML pages
  • Always use index.html for the homepage of a site