[thelist] home page max size

maurice maurice at graciebarra.be
Thu Dec 13 12:12:24 CST 2001


I agree, using www.nameofthething.com just makes more sense to people
reading it.
The WWW part rings a bell:"oh it's a website".
Perhaps very famous sites can do without www, a small company would (imo) be
better off using www.company.com on its printed material.

Maurice
> 
> The reason we have www is because its the world wide web.  Same reason I
> have ftp.mydomain.com and mail.mydomain.com  mydomain.com is a
> domain.  www.mydomain.com is a machine with a web server and that's hosting
> my primary web site.  I know, I'm probably old and crotchety (being almost
> 28 now *snort*), but I find third level domains to be useful and
> appealing.  Many websites use third level domains (such as
> hostedstore.mydomain.com) that utilize the branded name in the third-level
> position.  www.mydomain.com indicates that this site is the primary web
> site for this domain.  And I can set up secure.mydomain.com to make it nice
> and apparent that its the site I'm going to use for SSL.
> 
> Now, I'm also not an idiot so I make sure that mydomain.com has an A record
> that points to my webserver and I make sure that my webserver responds
> appropriately.  And I also make sure that www.hostedstore.mydomain.com
> serves up the same content as hostedstore.mydomain.com.  There are
> certainly good reasons to accommodate the expectations of the majority of
> users.  But that doesn't mean that we should toss naming conventions that
> have not, in my opinion, outlived their usefulness.
> 
> Judah
> 
> 





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