Ronny Aasen wrote:
Axel Bojer wrote:Morten Werner Forsbring wrote:Hi, I have created the website people.skolelinux.{org,no} as a replacement for d.skolelinux.no/~username/, skolelinux.no/~username/ and similar homepage-sites. An example is Petter's homepage [1]. Have fun! :) - Werner [1] http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/Ok, so thats why my link did not work anymore :-P Could you make http://www.people.skolelinux.org/pere/ point to the same too?I find it really confusing to remember to omit the www, because normally both point to the same place.hi axel :)personaly i find the www in front of everything very annoying. The www is in some rare cases usefull as a method to find the first site to start on, on a given domain. But in my opinion, there should be one, and only one www.something on a domain. In this case we allready have www.skolelinux.no. So having to maintain 2 server aliases for each and every subdomain, or host gives users very little, while adding both dns and web admin workload.you could try making it a habit to omit the www allways, since it almost allways works without.what i was trying to say in my rambelings above is. the effort is not just worth it.
I disagree, this really depends on the audience. For our audience being mostly technological skilled people, I guess most will understand. But ask joe user and s/he will probably just thing that the page is down and not give a second thought about omitting www. But if those users don't matter, then it could count as unecessary work, I guess.
As said almost every other web page out there does this, and one line or two lines in a configuration file can't be that much of a difference, can it? So to me it seems that this is more a philosophical question than a question about the work load.
But the one doing the work has to decide, so ... But I shall remember to omit www, that's an easy rule to follow, I guess :-) Best regards Axel Bojer