[Web4lib] get rid of the www?

[William Melody]

Nina,

both URLs absolutely should be pointing to the same place.  www.foo.bar and 
foo.bar are meant to be the same thing in a web browser.  the www was just 
originally to distinguish it as a web request rather than a mail or ftp 
request, but it's really unnecessary and, to many people, outdated.  Having 
them point to two different places is a big mistake and non-standard, so 
I'd say changing the catalog URL to something unique and more appropriate, 
like catalog.georgetown.edu, should be a priority.


At 09:12 AM 7/1/2005, Nina McHale wrote:
>I'm wondering if anyone out there has done away with this particular 
>situation as a result of the www not being necessary:  Our *library* home 
>page is www.library.georgetown.edu; our *catalog* home page is 
>library.georgetown.edu.  Our campus web folks have started omitting the 
>www on their new sites, and we've gotten one professor complaining that 
>our home page keeps changing: "sometimes it's a homepage, sometimes it's a 
>keyword search" (the catalog).  Our catalog does have links to "library 
>home," but I'm wondering if this kind of complaint will become more and 
>more frequent.  Is it worth worrying about at this point?  At least one 
>user has obviously gotten used to the lack of www.  Will the library look 
>uncool? :)
>
>If you've done away with the www, how did you deal with the catalog 
>overlap, if it existed?  Is it just a matter of reconfiguring our catalog 
>and web servers?
>
>--
>Nina McHale



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