More WWW Research Custom Domain Name

Now I have tried to add another ghs.google.com record

 CNAMES (Aliases)    
Host  Points To  TTL  Actions


     www                      ghs.google.com  1 Hour

     www.wednesdays.ws        ghs.google.com  1 Hour

     wednesdays.ws            ghs.google.com  1 Hour

Now I think I am back to having non "www" files being redirected to the base domain name instead of the correct posted page.

Let's give it some time and see what happens.

Jim

By the way, suggest reading the entire "WWW" string in chronological order from oldest to newest posting (bottoms up).

Update NOTE: Discovered only subdomains can be in CNAME Records.

For example: Don't do as I did above, but only add the www for ghs.google.com as a CNAME record.

This doesn't fix the non www, but the other two examples above do not work.

Note #2: If you are going to publish to the main domain name using custom domain names and Blogger; Blogger provides a redirect from their end, which is selectable in the publishing tab. Select Custom Domain name and additional information can be entered.

Custom Domain Name Working with WWW and Non WWW

After doing some research online for the WWW custom domain name issues. I found a helpful link with some information about deleting the "A" record in the DNS control panel of Godaddy for your domain name.

Google Custom Domain - Case Study #1

In this article (actually the comments) was a reference to removing the "A" Record. After removing the "A" record, now everything seems to point to the same location.

Keep in mind, whenever you do changes at the DNS level, it can take sometime before things propagate online.

The interesting thing is that I actually had to set up two CNames Records. One just with the straight www and the other with www.wednesdays.ws both pointing to ghs.google.com. I tried deleting the www.wednesdays.ws = ghs.google.com but then things did not function at all. I tried deleting both and starting over with just the www = ghs.google.com. No change, still did not function. I then went back to both. See below.

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WWW Wednesdays WS DNS Custom Domain Name

In addition to the above settings, my Blogger settings for publishing are to have the blog published at www.wednesdays.ws and using the built in redirect forward of the Blogger engine, I set wednesdays.ws to go to www.wednesdays.ws. See below.

Custom Domain Name Settings For Blogger With Wednesdays Website

Everything seems to be functioning properly with the custom domain.

Here is an example of what I am talking about for proper redirecting and forwarding:
http://www.wednesdays.ws/2007/02/meet-jim-on-internet.html goes to Meet Jim on the Internet article. Before the removal of the "A" record the following without the "WWW" http://wednesdays.ws/2007/02/meet-jim-on-internet.html would go to the root level or www.wednesdays.ws. After the change, http://wednesdays.ws/2007/02/meet-jim-on-internet.html goes to the same location, but adds the "WWW" in front of the address. This is perfect, because no matter which way you have links to your website, they will always go to the correct location.

Hopefully, this will hold up, as a viable solution to the "WWW" Custom Domain Name problem.

Spoke too soon. There seems to be a difference between Firefox and Internet Explorer, in the way the non WWW is handled. It works on three computers with Firefox but with the same three computers it doesn't function in Internet Explorer.

More research required.

PS Meet Jim on the Internet.

My Wednesdays Blog With WWW

Well, it's not Wednesday when I posted this, but here is a short update.

First off, my www.Wednesdays.ws and Wednesdays.ws were going to two different locations for the longest time. Blogger recently helped the process along a little in allowing a person to select or automatically forward one to the other. For example: Wednesdays.ws is forwarded to www.Wednesdays.ws. This is good in and of itself. However, there are a couple of pitfalls that you might encounter if you have had a website online, publishing with ftp for a long time, and shift it to Blogger for custom domain name publishing.

While the basic forward does in fact work, it doesn't automatically take you to each published article. If most of your articles are found online with the www in front of the domain name, because you were publishing under the www custom domain name, there will be very few problems. However, if you switch to the non www form of publishing, and having the forward set up with Google Blogger (from the Blogger publishing page options) to go from www.Wednesdays.ws to just Wednesdays.ws you will not be able to directly link to the article, but instead will be transported back to the home page.

Here is an example of what I mean: http://www.wednesdays.ws/2007/02/internet-creativity.html This goes to the article page.

This however, http://wednesdays.ws/2007/02/internet-creativity.html www.wednesdays.ws.

I'll try a few other things and let you know what I find.

Creativity For Me And WWW Google Custom Domain

Having a blog that can spur creativity on is a must.

Well, maybe not a must have, but it sure is helpful when the mood is right to write with a little flair. The dry writing style of many of the news articles online gets old after awhile and I needed an outlet to spread my wings a little. I really think this template says it all with the picture of the different colored pencils. Don't try to read too much into though, because it was just a template design that I liked when I saw it from Design Creek.

However, it did take some time to convert it to the new Blogger format. And, while I do not have everything working quite right with the www and the non www for this website, I am on a quest to find the answers. If anyone knows how to get both the www and the non www working consistently for Google Custom Domain name publishing, I would greatly appreciate it.

Take a look at what I have tried so far in the realm of getting both working on the same blog. Read: Google Custom Domain Name www Subdomain Help Required: According To Jim Warholic Post your thoughts and ideas for solving this particular conundrum.

By-the-way, it's not like I really want two different blogs at www.wednesdays.ws and wednesdays.ws. But, that was the only way I could figure out how to get both working consistently.

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Internet Creativity

Wednesdays Internet Website

Rainbow colors can really spice up a website design. Here is another open source website design, which I have customized to the new Blogger. This design brings out the creative marketing aspect of what can be done on the Web.

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The marketing and advertising aspect of a colorful website design can bring out good emotions in perspective customers visiting a website for the first time online.

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