Michael Phillips Blog

Skip the “www”

I wasn’t familiar with how to get a website to repsond without the “www” in front, and when I went to do searches on it, I wasn’t too happy with the results.  So, I am creating this entry just to remind me how to do this simple little task.

To get a website to respond to the “domain.com” and the “www.domain.com”, using Windows 2003 Server for DNS and for IIS, the following are the steps to take:

1.  add a host header for “domain.com” and “www.domain.com” in IIS.

2.  add an “A” record for “domain.com” and “www.domain.com” in DNS.  (Note:  You can use an Alias(CNAME) for the “www” entry instead of a Host(A) record, but you have to enter an A record for “domian.com”.)

WEFT the font?

I don’t know if anyone really ever does this, but I thought it was interesting.  It is a tool that lets you embed fonts in a web page so that people can see the font you created the page with even if they don’t have that font installed.  If someone knows of a more current way to do this, let me know.  I was just browsing when I cam across this and wasn’t too concerned about be up to date.

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft3/default.htm