diff --git a/app/views/admin/conferences/new.html.haml b/app/views/admin/conferences/new.html.haml
index 80307e4f..a5b3d4a6 100644
--- a/app/views/admin/conferences/new.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/admin/conferences/new.html.haml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
         = f.input :title, hint: "The name of your conference as it shall appear throughout the site. Example: 'OpenSUSE Conference 2013'",
                           input_html: { required: 'required' }
         = f.input :short_title, hint: "A short and unique handle for your conference, using only lower-case letters, numbers and underscores. This will be used to identify your conference in URLs etc. Example: 'froscon2011'",
-                                input_html: { required: 'required' }
+                                input_html: { required: 'required', pattern: '[a-z0-9-]+', title: 'Only numbers, dashes, and/or lower cased letters.' }, :prepend => 'http://myconf.com/'
       = f.inputs 'Scheduling' do
         = f.input :timezone, as: :time_zone, default: Time.zone.name, hint: 'Please select in what time zone your conference will take place.'
         = f.input :start_date, as: :string, input_html: { id: 'conference-start-datepicker', required: 'required' }