tjameswhite.com

Facing a corprate mandated redesign at work, I decided to take the oppotunity to update our site to structurally meaningful and valid code, utilizing the latest in CSS to do so.

Corporate has provided templates and a code base which is old fashion tables in tables in tables with tons of spacer .gifs. I threw all of that out and started with just their dimensions and color palatte and recreated the site from scratch. My efforts have paid off.

We meet via a phone conference last week with the corporate web keepers and they were impressed with my work. At first they couldn’t believe that my pages didn’t use any of their images, since the look is nearly identical. They were further impressed with the numbers: their page - 32 kb, mine - 9 kb. Their total page weight (all images and code): 106 kb; mine: 32 kb. Total image they used: 60+; total images I used: 5.

They were impressed enough to ask if I minded sharing what I did with the vendor who created their original templates. Looks like I’ll be helping them rework the master corporate template that all the companies will be using.

Yes. If it’s gotta be corporate, at might as well be done right.

And, I’ve improved upon my own code. I had a brainstorm today that elliminated two entire styles, replacing them with simple decendent selectors. Smooth it is.