Andypro1
06-07-2006, 10:48 AM
Hi,
I believe this thread is in the right forum; this is the closest forum I could find to talk about the xtremesystems web design.
I'm not sure who designed it, but it seems to me to be in need of a real overhaul. Has anyone taken a look at the html source on for the front page? There are about 8 body and head tags, each with their own doctype declaration, and table usage is excessive and rampant (heh). The code is extremely far away from any sort of W3C compliance, and the way it renders in some browsers is really odd and somewhat annoying (the content in the main column seems to 'snap' inline only after the images are finished loading).
Anyway, I'm just wondering if a code cleanup / redesign is in order. I like the layout (mostly) and the images and everything look pretty slick, but if you think about it reducing the page size and converting to XHTML & CSS would potentially lead to a very substantial bandwidth savings (I don't really know the traffic statistics of this site, but judging by the size of the forums I'd say it gets hit very frequently).
At the very least, I'd be interested to hear from the designer why on earth the HTML is laid out with multiple bodies ;p Anyway - just my two cents. ;)
I believe this thread is in the right forum; this is the closest forum I could find to talk about the xtremesystems web design.
I'm not sure who designed it, but it seems to me to be in need of a real overhaul. Has anyone taken a look at the html source on for the front page? There are about 8 body and head tags, each with their own doctype declaration, and table usage is excessive and rampant (heh). The code is extremely far away from any sort of W3C compliance, and the way it renders in some browsers is really odd and somewhat annoying (the content in the main column seems to 'snap' inline only after the images are finished loading).
Anyway, I'm just wondering if a code cleanup / redesign is in order. I like the layout (mostly) and the images and everything look pretty slick, but if you think about it reducing the page size and converting to XHTML & CSS would potentially lead to a very substantial bandwidth savings (I don't really know the traffic statistics of this site, but judging by the size of the forums I'd say it gets hit very frequently).
At the very least, I'd be interested to hear from the designer why on earth the HTML is laid out with multiple bodies ;p Anyway - just my two cents. ;)