Questions about the HTML and CSS of this site:

When I look at the source code, the books I study have the lines laid out more or less vertically. At RHP, there are two very long horizontal lines. Why is that? I see that a lot on other sites, it makes it hard to read for a newbie web dude. Is that the reason, to make it hard to read? Thanks. Don.

Originally posted by sonhouse
When I look at the source code, the books I study have the lines laid out more or less vertically. At RHP, there are two very long horizontal lines. Why is that? I see that a lot on other sites, it makes it hard to read for a newbie web dude. Is that the reason, to make it hard to read? Thanks. Don.

Read it a few times and don't see a site idea in your post

Originally posted by sonhouse
When I look at the source code, the books I study have the lines laid out more or less vertically. At RHP, there are two very long horizontal lines. Why is that? I see that a lot on other sites, it makes it hard to read for a newbie web dude. Is that the reason, to make it hard to read? Thanks. Don.

It's quite common for sites that get a lot of traffic. Every line break or space in the code takes up a few bytes of data so if you remove them all it reduces the size of webpage, which in turn means that it reduces the amount of bandwidth used.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minification_(programming)

Originally posted by Daemon Sin
It's quite common for sites that get a lot of traffic. Every line break or space in the code takes up a few bytes of data so if you remove them all it reduces the size of webpage, which in turn means that it reduces the amount of bandwidth used.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minification_(programming)

Thanks for the link, wiki must be down for now, couldn't bring it up, but googling minification brought this up:

http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#no_filters

I was surprised Yahoo actually had something useful to say, their chess site sucks bigtime🙂