Naming conventions for all files

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All prepped media should conform to the following conventions: Each piece will be lowercase, and will not contain spaces. There will be 5 sections - designated by the first 4 letters then followed by an underscore:

Example:

   * Student Galleries: stud_
   * Alumni: alum_
   * Faculty: facu_
   * Course Content: cour_
   * Global Navigation: glob_

This will be followed by a subsection consisting of the majors and will be designated by the first letter of the major.

Example:

   * General: g
   * Integrated Media: i
   * Journalism: j
   * Film Studies: f

This will be followed by a serial number in case there are more than one of each object:

Example:

   * 01
   * 02
   * 03

The serial number will be followed by the standard extension for that type of file type.

Example:

   * Images: .jpg .gif
   * Videos: .flv
   * Audio: .mp3
   * Text/Html: .txt .html
   * Flash: .swf

Examples using the naming conventions:

The last example is of pre-production files (files that are given to us by someone else). They will be saved using the same conventions, except that the serial number will be followed by a version number (.ie stud_g_01_v01.jpg).

Thumbnails will be saved with a “th_” preceding the file name in order to distinguish them from their full size version (ie th_stud_01.jpg.)

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