One thing I’ve been meaning to do is create a set of standard templates for use on new sites. By templates I don’t mean similar to those found on Template Monster. I’m talking basic layout templates for 1, 2 and 3 column layouts, etc. Ones that are compliant with the different web standards.

Have you compiled a set of your own? Or do you use layout generators to create them?

With all the hacks created to overcome browser inconsistencies and inadequacies, how easy is it to design a hack-free web standard design? In trying to create one, are you limited to using a basic design or can a complex (relatively speaking) design be accomplished?

Share your thoughts!

In December 2005 we did an analysis of a sample of slightly over a billion documents, extracting information about popular class names, elements, attributes, and related metadata.

Some interesting things I picked up from the study are:

• A whole slew of people are specifying the xml:lang attribute, which will have absolutely no effect (no HTML processor will look at that attribute; it’s an XML attribute).
• Of the top twenty most-used attributes on body, fourteen are purely presentational.
• The br element is a simple one, yet used on so many pages that it is the 8th most-used element. It is used more than the p element. There are very few legitimate semantic places to use this element (addresses and poems are the canonical examples), which means that most uses are probably presentational.
• In our data sample there were twice as many pages that used the table element but didn’t use the td element
• The script element was used on roughly half the pages we checked.

Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics

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