Jul 2014 docs adjustments

Lots of fun stuff! This probably needs review before merging, to make sure I didn't slip up somewhere. 

We should also discuss where to merge it. Once we know whether the changes are good, let me know whether I should rebase onto stable or something. Ideally, I'd like to get these into 2.0, 2.1, and next. 
I'm being picky, but technically that part you've called a url here (https://url?parameter=value&parameter=value), isn't a full url, its just a part of it.