Remaking DMXzone in CSS and XHTML

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After all the CSS and xhtml was in place, we faced yet another challenge. …. Also check our Premium Content at DMXzone about CSS, XHTML and Web Standards …

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DMXzone remake in CSS and XHTML
George Petrov, Patrick Woldberg
Remaking DMXzone in CSS and XHTML
DMXzone is built in ASP working together with a MS SQL Server 2000 database. The original code was a few years old and had started off “clean” but had more and more features bolted on. By the time we decided to retrofit it, the main pages were layers of nested tables, presentational HTML mixed in with structural HTML all inside files together with other html and ASP code; there were 6000 pages stored in the database and the result was a homepage of 100K that was a huge tangle of spaghetti that would make Pavarotti turn green and ask for a burger instead.
Before we started on the CSS .
Our first stage of the redesign was to separate the ASP that handles the business logic and the presentational ASP by dividing different page elements in separate modules module for sidebars, header, content, footer etc which is “assembled” when the user requests a page. We introduced HTML template files for each site element that were included into the ASP when needed. This split the HTML out into HTML templates that had special…

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