Web 2.0. All about div layouts, valid XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets. There really isn’t a situation in writing/upkeeping a website where someone would not come around to tell you that your website is out of standard. And while these people are in for a just cause, their reasoning is the dumbest crap I’ve heard since the Vista adverts.
- Make your website faster
Wow! I can upgrade my website loading times from 0.0054 seconds to 0.0021 seconds!! Attention, Web 2.0 format kids: Normal viewers do not calculate milliseconds, and websites should not be made as if they did. It’s great that you have a Firefox plug-in to time, track and graph your loading times, but nobody cares. Sorry.Although all the 3 people on the planet that still use a dial-up will thank you on behalf of their modems for writing more standard code. Indent ‘n’ win! - Lower hosting bills
At the point where hosting bills is the main concern in picking a layout or even making/upgrading a website in the first place, it’s time to take a minute to think whether you’re really up to having a website. Especially when all these reasons target businesses; no business never seriously cares about hosting costs. Ever. - Visual consistency is preserved through linked stylesheet files
This can also be done with PHP, so far compatible with any HTML standard out there. Not that linked CSS files would be bad, but it’s not a reason to use them. - Make your website less expensive by using div layouts
Apart from hosting bills, what does this mean? Do website programmers charge per character, so writing div will be $2 cheaper than writing table? - Make your website more accessible for alternative user agents
“Alternative user agents” means the Nokia E90. And for all it’s worth, I think people surfing the internet are either too much of the nerdy gadget freak type to really have any interest on this website or anything else I have done or will do, or alternatively too busy to have a real computer, in which case they should probably not be surfing the net in the first place.
I mean, all these reasons seem to target people who make websites for large companies. So far no bigshot company website I have visited has been XHTML, or even valid HTML 4.0 to begin with. You know they all trust their Joomlas and SharePoints and other WYSIWYG portal systems, and there’s no way any of them produce valid code. Even with no content on the website. The CSS beauty, valid, proper Web 2.0 websites I’ve seen are all made, owned and upkeeped by some computer science student for their own Totoro fanstuff that is only read by themselves. It seems that making valid XHTML+CSS div markup is not a standard as much as a gimmick to boast that you know shit.
I once read an online pep talk to write div layouts to conserve bandwidth and space. Not to lower hosting bills, but because there might be 100,000 hits per day. That’s all very well… if you indeed do have a hundred grand hits per day. My superb hit count is an average 60 hits per day. Peak at 153. I’m so popular, oh I’m glad I chose WordPress to be my div layouted blog system! Where would my 2 readers be without the div layouts and linked CSS files and let’s not forget valid XHTML. Because you so give a shit.







