Building a page from scratch
I really like “Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards”:http://www.alistapart.com/articles/slashdot/ from A List Apart. I hope to apply this process to my own site one of the days.
The basic process for the retooling was as follows:
# Strip out all non-essential tags.
# Add semantic markup.
# Group data in boxes.
# Add layout markup.
# Apply unique style attributes.
My templates and stylesheets could use a serious pruning. Most of them are bastardized copies of the original MT templates and I’ve added a lot of cruft. Taking this approach would allow me to optimize the pages and would be a good learning experience. Hope to do it soon.
