All new University URLs and sites created in Cascade will begin with www.clemson.edu/ followed by the department name. From this root, you can determine what name to use. For example, www.clemson.edu/yournamehere. URLs are case sensitive and should created with all lower-case letters.
Redirects on servers and aliases will be used to ensure that long-standing, published URLs point to the new location of sites. Departments housing sites outside of Cascade, and on their own servers, may choose to follow the same standardization of URLs. Within Cascade, managers of sites can create redirects for pages within their site.
Requests for particular URLs are granted on a first-come, first-served basis, so check to see if the URL you desire is already in use. Clemson University reserves the right to refuse requests for URLs.
Things to remember when naming a Web site:
- Create a URL extension that will make sense to your users and will be easy to remember.
- Use all lowercase letters for the file name.
- Try to avoid dashes and underscores.
- Do not use spaces or non-alphabet symbols in your URL. (Numbers are okay to use.)