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Something that annoys me.

Posted by dale on Fri, 08 Oct 2004 20:21:24 EST

Okay you have to get into your head that I am a very lazy person. Picture a lazy dale….got it? Good. I shall continue.

I don’t like websites that don’t point their root domain to their website (or at least give me a redirect). What do I mean? Well for example.

http://sacs.nsw.edu.au doesn’t work where as http://www.sacs.nsw.edu.au works.

Typing that extra www is so annoying. It is really nice just to press "s" and get a list of all the sites that start with "s". It cannot be that hard to setup. Although with the case of sacs I think they just don’t know what they’re doing.

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: sacs.nsw.edu.au
Addresses: 202.59.21.227, 202.59.21.230, 202.59.21.231, 10.0.4.3
10.0.4.10

When the site should look like this:

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.sacs.nsw.edu.au
Address: 202.59.21.227

Oh well. I also changed my css file a little. When you click in the comment box the colour changes (hush IE users, you’re browser doesn’t support it). Funky. I got that idea from the Wordpress admin panel thingy.

Below are the comments for this news item

What's the WWW for anyway? Why do some sites work with it, and some sites without?

CSS changes - reminds me of Microsoft Access! Nicers!

1: Comment by Anonymous - Fri, 08 Oct 2004 22:12:32 EST

Woops, that was me that left that previous comment.

Hehe. I was trying to be "sneaky." ANONYMOUS…. trying to fool everyone. Like a ghost rider.

2: Comment by Matthom - Fri, 08 Oct 2004 22:13:56 EST

Pardon me, but I just typed http://sacs.nsw.edu.au/ and it worked fine. ;)

Nice CSS change!

3: Comment by Stuart - Fri, 08 Oct 2004 23:16:30 EST

Mmm. Okay well some people must be getting the correct entry. It has never worked for me.

Another example:
http://boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/
http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/