Author : Piyush Gupta
Well, as in many things in life, I think the answer to this is a matter of personal preferences. It became a customary use to add the WWW to many web sites, just at the beginning of the Internet as we know it, in part was a formality to indicate that we were talking about a “World Wide Web” hypertext based site, hence the www.
Eventually, this www became so ubiquitous that it came to be sort of useless, so many companies started dropping the WWW from their communications about their web site(s).
Personally, I do like better the non-WWW, it just seems cleaner to me, nicer if you wish, better looking, more aesthetically pleasing.
NOW, one thing is preference and another whole different thing is the RIGHT or correct way of doing things, let me explain:
Since both ways are absolutely valid and common ways of expressing a web address and even, disregarding the preferred way of printing that address, by its owners or managers, the configuration of the DNS name server(s) resolving that domain name (web address) and the web server(s) themselves that attend the user's requests for pages in such web site should absolutely support BOTH ways with and without the WWW.
The reason being that some people will write it with WWW and certainly some others well write it without WWW on their respective web browsers. So , web admins should and must support both ways.
Now that we are on this subject, It is amazing how many web sites only support one of the two methods we are discussing here and fail, don't work, with the other. That, to me is plain and simple badly done job of the people responsible for that web site.
Well, as in many things in life, I think the answer to this is a matter of personal preferences. It became a customary use to add the WWW to many web sites, just at the beginning of the Internet as we know it, in part was a formality to indicate that we were talking about a “World Wide Web” hypertext based site, hence the www.
Eventually, this www became so ubiquitous that it came to be sort of useless, so many companies started dropping the WWW from their communications about their web site(s).
Personally, I do like better the non-WWW, it just seems cleaner to me, nicer if you wish, better looking, more aesthetically pleasing.
NOW, one thing is preference and another whole different thing is the RIGHT or correct way of doing things, let me explain:
Since both ways are absolutely valid and common ways of expressing a web address and even, disregarding the preferred way of printing that address, by its owners or managers, the configuration of the DNS name server(s) resolving that domain name (web address) and the web server(s) themselves that attend the user's requests for pages in such web site should absolutely support BOTH ways with and without the WWW.
The reason being that some people will write it with WWW and certainly some others well write it without WWW on their respective web browsers. So , web admins should and must support both ways.
Now that we are on this subject, It is amazing how many web sites only support one of the two methods we are discussing here and fail, don't work, with the other. That, to me is plain and simple badly done job of the people responsible for that web site.
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