WWW.yoursite.com or HTTP://yoursite.com which one is futureproof?
- by Sam
http://yoursite.com
www.yoursite.com
http://www.yoursite.com
yoursite.com
Which of these would you choose as your favourite to work with, if you were to make a site for 2011 and beyond, which domainname would you provide to clients, websites linking to you, your letterhead, contact cards. Why one OR other? Which to avoid?
Thinking of the following aspects:
validity, correctly loading URL
audience, most geeks know http://, most seniors/clients don't
easiest to remember / URL as a brand
misspellings by user input (in mobile phone or desktop browser)
browsers not understanding protocol-less links
total length of chars for easy user input
method of peferance by major search engines/social media sites
consistency sothat links dont fragment but all point to the same