Future-Proofing the Home, phase 1
If you had asked me a year ago what “Fahrner Image Replacement” was, I’d have guessed it had something to do with Photoshopping an original member of Grand Funk Railroad out of a promotional picture when a new musician was hired for a reunion tour. Funny how time flies…
Anyway, all of this is to say that Phase One of the great AStreet Upgrade began today. If you hit the home page of astreetproductions.com, you’ll notice…well…nothing, if I’ve done it right. Thanks to another tutorial over at A List Apart, I’ve rid the site’s static pages of all those ugly nested table cells and spacer gifs in the navigation bar without significantly changing the look. From what I’ve seen so far, it appears a little cleaner and loads quite a bit quicker (now that you’re loading just one image file instead of dozens of little ones).
The code isn’t perfect yet - there are still nested tables holding the site together, plenty of FONT tags and presentational HTML, but it’s getting there…
Popularity: 3% [?]
May 18th, 2004 at 2:06 pm
I’ve never really understood the need for FIR, but hey.