What the hell is Wil Wheaton doing? He’s proud of the fact that his headings aren’t marked up with <h2> tags. They’re second level headings for Pete’s sake! What the hell? You think <span class="title"> is more appropriate? Where the hell did you learn HTML? This is exactly what <h2> is for! This and nothing else. Why get rid of it? I mean I’ve seen people proudly proclaim that they’ve removed unnecessary or inappropriate markup from their sites, hopefully making them leaner and more accessible, but Wil has replaced a fundamental HTML tag with a horrible kludge! It’s sickening. So here’s what else is wrong:
- The page layout is done with
<table>s. I don’t see any tabular data. Use CSS. - His main title ("WIL WHEATON DOT NET, 50,000 monkeys at 50,000 typewriters can’t be wrong") is marked with
<font>tags. These are clear candidates for<hn>. Surely “WIL WHEATON DOT NET” is a first level heading? - The navigation links are marked as paragraphs. This is clearly an unordered list.
- Every article is has an empty anchor preceding it. While this isn’t incorrect it certainly isn’t necessary. Why not change
<a name="001227"></a><span class="title">Neverland</span>to<h3 id="001227">Neverland</h3>? That’s almost half the size. - Every text size specified in the stylesheet is in
pts. This is a print measurement, entirely inappropriate for screen display.emor % would be much better.
That list took longer to type than it did to compile. Surely anyone interested in having their own website should want to get it right?