Efficiency
in the early evening on Tuesday, the 18th of March 2008 by Chad
One of the tenets of being efficient is not doing repeated wasteful actions over and over again. If you don’t need to do it, why would you?
Some may have noticed that when you hit this site it makes sure the URL starts with http://pirate-king.com. Notice that there is no www. in there?
This has to be one of the stupidest conventions in the internet. Reading off a URL to someone with the longest pronounced letter three times is horrible. Even the shortcut method of saying “dub dub dub whatever” is a major waste.
Just about every website out there can be reached by not using the www. in front of the domain. By internet convention this should always take you to the primary website for the domain. I can’t think of the last time I found a major website that isn’t reachable that way.
Is your website compatible? Check http://no-www.org/ for more information. The page is a little out of date but the tools still work just fine.
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March 24th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Funny but this drives me nuts too.
Unfortunately TheRazor.org fails the test at no-www.org though.
March 24th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
What I had to do was go into the wordpress admin pages, then options, and set the URL in both spots to http://pirate-king.com and then everything worked just peachy after that…