I have been asked this question two times in the past week - "How do you make links to the movies that also have genres in their URLs". So I made this video to show you. So in this video we want our URLs to also reflect the genre of the movie - something like this: `/movies/action/name-of-the-movie` . We will learn how to do that but also how to generally make better links in October CMS templates.

In this episode I'm going to show you how you can make better and more complicated links and URLs in October CMS.

Better Links And URLs

In this episode we are continuing work with Builder plugin for October CMS and I'm going to show you how you can control the output of your details page, how to limit the text coming from your fields and also how to link items on your list page to the details page of your item.

We are also going to learn about the `raw` filter and `html_` function which will help us limit the output of our description field from our Movie model.

Now we are going to continue working with the Builder plugin for October CMS and learn how to display our lists and create and display details page for our movies.

Displaying Lists and Details

Permalinks are the URLs you see in the address bar of your browser. It is good practice to make them as descriptive as possible. All of the major CMSs and frameworks have the option to define URL structure of your site. Middleman, of course has similar options and we are going to see how you can set them up.

In this Building Web Sites With Middleman episode we are going to be talking about Middleman permalink or URLs and how you can make them better.

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