This isn’t the kind of code quality you should launch with
Submitted by joeclark on September 22, 2007 - 12:19pm.
You shouldn’t have launched the site with HTML this bad. Among other things, a does not take an attribute called ref, comments are delimited by strictly defined and easy-to-get-right characters, you have tons of empty h2 class=”title” elements, you don’t have a print stylesheet (thanks for burning through our expensive coloured ink), you’re styling inside elements, you’ve got so many classes on some divs it’s clear somebody doesn’t understand the cascade, and by God you’re actually still using tables for layout.
And you have the temerity to label this nonsense XHTML Strict. No wonder the thing breaks in IE6; the site’s HTML is broken.
43 Folders: The Failed Redesign of September ’07.
Think you can fix the problems using your 43 Folders system? That I’d like to see.
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Take it up with the Drupal Project, not Merlin
Joe, I too was kind of surprised when another friend launched a great looking site in Drupal. I viewed source trying to figure out what CMS the thing was built with and was shocked to see tables still be used in 2007 for layout. But then I realized it was Drupal and really, Drupal is the one to blame here. It’s a pretty thorny and extensive CMS with code everywhere in little modules. Stuff like the HTML used to build each page usually isn’t touched by site authors or even designers.
It’d be nice if the Drupal team could move into the present with their default layouts that everyone builds upon, but I wouldn’t blame any drupal users for the app’s shortcomings.