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<li><font face="Verdana">Use fewer files and directories <br>
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<li>Every file is a separate call to the server. </li>
<li>Instead of using many small images you might consider
using an imagemap. </li>
<li>Decrease the number of directory structure levels. </li>
</ul>
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<li>Limit your spacing
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<li>While we know that spaces in your code, as a rule, should
not effect the layout, it does effect how it's parsed.
Decrease or eliminate the spaces between your lines of code.
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</ul>
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<li>Use relative addressing instead of absolute addressing.
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<li>instead of using href=http://www.mydomain.com/images/pic1.jpg
use href=&quot;../images/pic1.jpg&quot; </li>
<li>to really speed things up use the &lt;base&gt;tag in the
&lt;head&gt;like this:<br><br>&lt;base href=http://www.mydomain.com&gt;<br>
<br>then use relative addressing in the rest of the page. </li>
</ul>
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<li>Use HTML to control spacing when possible
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<p>Instead of using a spacer.gif to manipulate space, try
using &amp;nbsp; for horizontal spacing and the &lt;br&gt; and &lt;p&gt;tags
for vertical spacing. </p>
</ul>
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<li>Eliminate repetitive tags
<ul type="disc">
<li>This is something you'll often find in pages created with
point and click web applications (WYSIWYG HTML editors) For
example:<br>
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot;&gt;Hello World&lt;/font&gt; &lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot;&gt;Welcome
to my web page.&lt;/font&gt;<br>
<br>
In this example the first &lt;/font&gt; and the second &lt;font face=&quot;arial&quot;&gt;
could be eliminated. </li>
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<li>Eliminate attributes with default values
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<li>For example, you don't need to use these:<br>
&lt;body text=&quot;black&quot;&gt;<br>
&lt;div align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;<br>
&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot; color=&quot;silver&quot; face=&quot;times&quot;&gt;<br>
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<li>Use short file names and directories
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<li>Instead of href=&quot;../imagefiles/companylogos/advertisements.html<br>
try href=&quot;../imgs/logos/ads.html </li>
</ul>
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<li>Use Cascading Style Sheets
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<li>Use CSS to position your content. It requires less code
and you have more accurate control over layout. </li>
</ul>
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<li>Beware of WYSIWYG code trash
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<li>Many web authoring apps add their own proprietary code.
FrontPage is notorious for this. Beware!! </li>
<li>Clean up your META tag. You don't need the following info
in your METAs:<br>
&lt;META NAME=&quot;generator&quot; content=&quot;Microsoft FrontPage 4.0&quot;&gt;<br>
&lt;META NAME=&quot;ProgId&quot; CONTENT=&quot;FrontPage.Editor.Document&quot;&gt; </li>
</ul>
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<li>Table Savvy
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<li>Avoid nesting tables. Rather than creating complex table
layouts, use the attributes rowspan and colspan to control
content layout. </li>
<li>If you can, fill empty table data cells with &amp;nbsp; This
weighs less than a spacer.gif. </li>
<li>Tables take time. Even if you need to use a table for some
of your content, the entire page doesn't have to be in a
table. </li>
</ul>
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<p>There you have it. Follow the HTML Diet and your web pages will be
looking and feeling healthier immediately!!! </font> </td>
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