AboutKen Ivey Expertise If you are new to the Internet you may be anxious to give it the gas; or terrified to take your foot from the brake! Either way, with over 20 years on what is now called the information highway, I can steer you in the right direction. Are you ready? Let's hit the road!
Experience I have over 20 years of practical experience with web-related issues, and some military computer training. I've worked for a computer manufacturer, and own a small technology company specializing in web-design, hosting, and internet media production. I am the webmaster of several sites, and e-newsletter editor for Rotary District 6760 which is comprised of 65 clubs throughout middle Tennessee.
Education/Credentials I'd like to say a diploma from a revered educational facility hangs on my wall, and perhaps someday it will. In reality, everything I know has been self-taught, much of it done so in the hallowed halls of that venerable institution called "The School of Hard Knocks".
Question Over the years I have obediently added ,as directed, www to begin a website but now realize nobody else seems to-so I quit with no p?roblem. I know it means World Wide Web but why the heck is it there?
Bill
Answer Hi Bill -
WWW is a subdirectory of YOURDOMAIN.com just as shop.yourdomain.com is and today, most webmasters configure their webs to respond to a browser request whether it includes www or not.
Some modern browsers will automatically pre-pend the www if you do not type it in, so it's often not necessary to use it at all.
In the old days of the web, most servers were configured to have the website in the www subdomain as a "best practice".
Whether or not it's required can be configured by modifying a web's DNS settings. Here's a discussion of your question on the web.
