Help me, I suck at HTML

Originally posted by GregK@Jan 12 2006, 03:01 PM
all recoded & 1/2 the filesize now...

valid XHTML
valid CSS
optimized images
was about 40k, now under 20k

http://tejasmedia.com/rf/

can you explain the importance of all those greg?

[GregK]

Hey BB

xhtml is just really clean html, gives your content to code ratio a boost.
Its easier to code with once you forget all the old tags you can't use anymore, less to remember!
It plays nice with .xml, .rss too, which is what .xhtml was actually created for.

CSS gives the same content to code boost, plus you can control your whole site from the single css file.

Optimized images just make things load faster.

I forgot to add the top menu on that template lol, I'll see what I can whip up here?

cheers

[GregK]

there, that looks pretty good kind of a cool nav

http://tejasmedia.com/rf/

[pokerguy]

/sorry to hijack a thread/

Greg, what do you professional web deisgners use to optimize images?

[GregK]

I use FireworksMX for everything, haven't had photoshop installed forever.

I do use photoshop when I'm doing a lot of digital photos though, FW for everything grafx related.

Time to go try out the new FW 8.0 I think it is? The last few upgrades haven't been worth it, think this one might be?

cheers

[pokerguy]

Cool thanks! All this time I've been using photoshop... <_<

I'll check it out right away!

[Rake Fighter]

How did you create the nav bar, I don't see it anywhere in the code. Did you make that in Fireworks?

[GregK]

nope, its a list styled w/CSS, no grafx or images to see.

[Rake Fighter]

I really need to learn CSS

[PokerMaster]

Yeh, fireworks is cool, Ive tried out a few fireworks add ons to dreamweaver which are sweet. Ive never really used it solely as a program though. I hate photoshop, but use it anyway, cos everyone else does. I might just try giving fireworks a go from now on.