> How does one acquire such stats, from the ISP or client-side utility?
I just use the find & replace method in Dreamweaver MX 2004 and count the instances of any given tag :) Probably not the best way to parse a HTML file, but It works.
Bert had mentioned there was a lot of DIVs, I'll just clarify:
I needed to use a couple extra to clear float instances in order for the site to appear correctly in Mac IE 5. If I changed the "hack" empty divs over to like hr tags, there would have been a few less.
Not counting the "container" div which makes up level one and keeps the site together, the rest of the DIV were necessary to produce the 3-column layout, keeping the center content at the top of the page and the navigation second. There are also extra DIV to emulate the boxes down the middle column. It wasn't redesign, just some emulation.
Going back I could probably shave off some DIV here and there using spans or something instead, but the HTML underneath compartively to the original is quite readable. The nesting produced no load lag from any browsers. By far, not a perfect conversion, but not bad for a first and only pass at it.
Chris Kennon wrote:
Original "snapshot" : http://theward.net/examples/chiefs.htm Revised: http://theward.net/examples/chiefstandards.htm
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