[BNM] [Fwd: www or no www]

[Mat Walker]

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Subject: 	www or no www
Date: 	Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:54:49 +0100
From: 	Beth Granter <bethgranter at yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: 	beth at bethgranter.com
To: 	bnmlist-owner at brightonnewmedia.org



Hi Everyone,

My new workplace's website doesn't work without the www 
(http://www.twentyfirst.com <http://www.twentyfirst.com/> works, 
http://twentyfirst.com <http://twentyfirst.com/> doesn't) and I've been 
put in charge of managing a rebuild of the site... so this is something 
I'd like to change. Our IT team have told me that it is bad practice to 
not use the www, and because we host the site ourselves and the domain 
without the www is used for our mailserver (or something - there was 
some techy reason that apparently we cannot make it work, which I didn't 
totally get). So if anyone could give me their vote on whether it is 
good or bad practice to have no www in your URL functioning and why, it 
would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Beth
http://bethgranter.com <http://bethgranter.com/> (no www necessary there!)