Mandatory

• Only capitalise the first word and any proper nouns (such as the names of places or people) in the title.
• All other words in the title should be in lower case.

Reason for this web standard

Style consistency

Guidance

Examples

• Wrong: Winter Maintenance Schedules (only first word should be capitalised).
• Correct: Winter maintenance schedules.

• Wrong: How to get to guildford (names of places or people should be capitalised).
• Correct: How to get to Guildford.

• Wrong: Local Education Authority appoints new Director (neither local education authority nor director are proper nouns).
• Correct: Local education authority appoints new director.

• Wrong: Woodland in North Surrey (north is an adjective, not part of the place name).
• Correct: Woodland in north Surrey.

Why we have this web standard

Style consistency - this standard is mandatory for style reasons.

We want web pages to have be consistent across the website. Whilst there are a number of different ways that a page title could be written we have chosen to standardise on one and apply that to all pages.

Related web standards:

• Mandatory: Must be less than 80 characters.
• Mandatory: Must be meaningful and should communicate the main subject of the page.
• Mandatory: Must not include symbols or punctuation other than - ? ', ( ) ! . : " £ $ € &.
• House style: section on capital letters.