Tuesday, September 14, 2004

Structural Markup and CSS-driven Layout

The Savings Add Up:

Page reduction (est.): 50KB
Page views/day: 40,000,000

Projected bandwidth savings:

2 terabytes/day
61 terabytes/month
730 terabytes/year

An Interview With Mike Davidson of ESPN
by Eric A. Meyer, Netscape Communications

ESPN.com, the online sister of the ESPN cable networks, serves up more than half a billion page views every month, so when the home page of the site dropped all layout tables in favor of structural markup and CSS-driven layout, the Web design community took notice. To add to the intrigue, the site's design is (as of this writing) being adjusted over time, so that the site is in effect making the latter stages of its redesign process public. For a personal site to do such a thing is rare enough; for a major commercial site to do it would have been almost unimaginable. >>read more

# posted by HolavaGuy @ 9/14/2004 03:50:00 PM