Well, just to throw another technical thing onto the pile, this site is now a “Class B certified” no-www domain. What this means is that all traffic to www.techtoucian.net now redirects to techtoucian.net. I’ve been meaning to do this for quite some time now (I don’t understand why Apache doesn’t do it by default), but the no-www site had a nice snippet of apache config that’d do it for me. You might sympathise, things tend to get done quicker if I’ve got someone to copy off.
So if you’ve got any bookmarks or whatnot there’s no need to update them. In fact, this probably doesn’t affect you very much at all. I just thought it was worth pointing out that the www prefix is a relic of the old days and old ways, and sites that use it primarily are silly — And Tate should let us ‘fix’ his sometime.
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my domain name register doesn’t let me point domain names without the http://www. to my dynamic ip. My site is still accessible from the non-www so I don’t see the problem :P
There probably really isn’t that much of a problem, it’s just annoying having to shell to http://www.tatey.com.
Still, once you’ve tried decent domain management you’ll never go back unless you don’t like it.
www is so oldhat, i think sites look much "cleaner" without double-ya-double-ya-double-ya on the front!!
good move ashley :)
sif, i’d rather have www in front. Makes it look like a real website! We’ve just come to acustomed to the www thing.
Hmm.. you can set Apache to just accept WWW as like default subdomain… I know how todo it under Plesk, but no idea about the actual configuration of Apache.
Well, here’s the thing, Scott… I don’t know about you, but when i go to type up a web address I generally don’t bother typing up the www on the front. This becomes a problem when idiots who don’t know better, like ANZ (anz.com.au) for example, _require_ you to put in the http://WWW. It’s annoying and redundant, and while the idea of putting more emphasis on not using the ‘www’ might not necessarily be important, I think making me type an extra 4 characters on every web site I go to (And for what?) is a silly idea.
…On that note so is having http://www.techtoucian.net and techtoucian.net deliver the same content… I don’t understand that bit at all. It just means Google indexes everything twice.
See my point?
I bank with westpac
yeah i see your point there. Thats why i have bookmarks
National for me though.
haha, its ironic that i just tried to goto http://www.cheapgames.com.au and it didn’t work but i went to cheapgames.com.au and it did :/
DAMN YOU ASHLEY! :P
Haha. Forever will you be cursed by having URLs go bad. My work here is done. >:-D
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