Over the last few months I have been noticing quite a lot of websites that make some fundamental errors. One of the ones that keep cropping up is failing to make a website resolve on the non www. version.
I just went to blackpool.gov.uk to try and pay our rates bill and was greeted with an opendns error.
I don’t know about most people but I never type in a URL starting with www. and I am assuming this would be cause for significant confusion for the average person that does not know about these things.
Granted a lot of sites that suffer these issues are for companies/organisations that are not relying on the search engines for success but it is still a basic error that will probably be causing confusion.
I just checked the other sites blackpool.gov.uk links out to and quite a few of them suffer from the same issues including:
- blackpoolunlimited.com
- reblackpool.com
- visitblackpool.com
Please sort it out!