What is an Offical URL?

The World Wide Web can be a bit of a -- well -- a web at times. It is under constant change with everything being so intertwined and delicate. Just when it all looks perfect, something happens to mess it all up. Dangling links, 403s, 404s, stale data, incorrect data, and on and on.

To help bring some order to this mess, we are beginning to put a few items at the bottom of each page to help the reader know more about the source of the data they are reading, the age of it, who is responsible for the page, and the "official URL" of the page.

OK, so the question remains. What is an official URL? Well, it goes like this. There is nothing more frustrating in life (besides perhaps the 5 minute red light near Stanton campus), than making a link to a page which disappears. The official URL indicates the URL that we will try to maintain. In other words, the URL or link you used to reach a particular page may change, but the official URL will hopefully not. Therefore, if you want to make a bookmark or link to a page, select the official URL and then link to that instead.

Ah, so what does URL stand for?! Uniform Resource Locater.


Last page update: 04 May 1995
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Official URL for this page: http://www.dtcc.edu/help/url.html
Page Maintained by: Ken Weaverling