File naming convenctions

any norms/ideas to consider?

[Acternaweb]

We are a distrubotor of a goods that has many "partners." We are trying to manage and organize content better. My task is to manage the images, now I found an application to do so, but need to create a naming convention for the images. My inital idea is partner name_product#_source (ie did they supply it or did we tkae the pic).

Anyone have any thoughts or recommendations? Is it ok to mix alpha and numeric? Thoughts and past experices welcome :-)

[ergophobe]

1. all one case (preferable lower case)
2. decide on dashes or underscores and stick with it
3. think about desired sort order and name accordingly. Do you want files sorted by name, by product id or by source?
4. when using numbers, be sure to zero-fill for proper alphabetical sorting. In other words, avoid "image-1.jpg" and prefer "image-0001.jpg" (or whatever).

[SEOMike]

decide on dashes or underscores and stick with it

VERY good point! An ex-employee didn't adhere to this and it's a nightmare trying to find files!