Hello. I want to rebuild one of my sites and had a few questions to ask before I get started. 1. What would be the best to build it in? XHTML 1.0 or XHTML 4.1 or whatever? 2. I here the best way is to use CSS instead of tables. I have a template in Dreamweaver I would like to use (3 column hybrid,header and footer) That has the CSS info on the page. Would it be better and faster loading if it had a seperate style sheet? 3. Should I remove all the text out of the code to make it faster loading? example: /*text that explains stuff*/ I want to rebuild this site the right way keeping everything in mind, all quality standards for SEO, load speed and any other specifics I need to focus on. Any advice would be appreciated.
XHTML 1.0 Transitional is probably the doctype you want to use, mainly the standard these days. HTML tables are very bad for the layout of the website, they should only be used for displaying tabular data. Using DIV's and CSS is the way forward, if your unsure of this there's thousands of sites out there to explain, lots of places to get the 3 column, header footer layout ready done for you in DIV's and CSS. If you have a lot of pages then definately put the CSS into an external stylesheet, it will reduce file-size of each page, and also allow users to cache the stylesheet for faster loading. I wouldn't wrorry about removing commented text from pages too much, I don't think you'd see to much of a difference.