Create a friendly URL

You can define a URL for any page on your website. You can also create URLs for pages in Pages & templates. Website users create URLs for personal pages for the Chapter Manager, Personal Page Manager, or User Networking Manager parts.

1. From Site explorer, click Friendly URLs. Friendly URLs appears.

2. Click New URL. The New URL screen appears.

3. Under Friendly URL, the domain entered in the Site URL field on the Settings tab in Sites & settings appears. In the field, enter the remainder of the URL for the friendly URL. For example, for a web page about your organization’s annual walkathon, enter “walkathon.”

When you create friendly URLs, you can define the site architecture. For example, you can create a friendly URL of “www.example.org/walkathon” for a web page with general information about your walkathon and “www.example.org/walkathon/donate” or “www.example.org/walkathon/donate.html” for the Donation Form associated with the event.

Note: Friendly URLs combine the domain name from the Site URL field in Sites & settings with the friendly URL information that you enter here. To change the domain portion of the URL, edit the URL in the Site URL field. For more information, seeGeneral site settings.

4. To verify the friendly URL is available, click Check Availability next to the field. If the link is available, a success message appears.

If the URL is not available, adjust the link so it is unique.

5. Under Target, select the web page for the friendly URL.

• To search for the web page, select Site page and browse to the page to associate with the link.

• To enter the target URL for the web page, select Enter URL. A field appears for you to enter the full URL.

Tip: If you are creating a friendly URL to link to an external website, select Enter URL and enter the external target URL in the field that appears.

6. Click Save. You return to Friendly URLs. In the grid, the new friendly URL appears.