As was mentioned above, your Website will be judged on one level by the ease with which a reader can recall particular pages. If a visitor sees a link to http://example.com/someverylongtitlederivedfrommergingwordstogether.html, then the chances of both remembering it and typing it in correctly are somewhat reduced.

At the other extreme, http://example.com/xsl/sect2/N1843.html is simple - but hardly memorable. It is a balancing act. Brief, memorable names becomes the objective; practicality then causes the compromises. A few other nuances also come into this argument. The next one is organising your files for ease of uploading them to the server, for which see Section 5.2